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Entrance of the Gladiators on 21:02 - Dec 11 by Sibelius8
To continue: As far as I can remember, the Fučik piece was used at least to the early 70s. The away team did indeed go onto the pitch first, Then the Town ran on. It was uplifting to hear that tune blasting away. I should add that that music was also used in circuses. It gained another title - "Entry of the Clowns." Anyway, I do think there is a need for one particular musical theme to be played at PR for the entry of our present gladiators, preferably not a "pop" tune, to coin a phrase. The music should transcend popular culture. Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyres" would do nicely, for example.
Okay, yep - I only know that as the Clown song!! The suggestion that the team should run out to it is unthinkable!!
Entrance of the Gladiators on 23:12 - Dec 11 by vinceg
Call Me Ted, just isn't a rousing tune. It's great when sung by the crowd mid-match (usually away I find), but the actual record they play at PR is too low sound-wise so feels a bit slow and boring
Not as dull as the dirge that is “Every Saturday we follow…..” God I detest that song.
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Entrance of the Gladiators on 08:39 - Dec 12 with 184 views
Entrance of the Gladiators on 21:02 - Dec 11 by Sibelius8
To continue: As far as I can remember, the Fučik piece was used at least to the early 70s. The away team did indeed go onto the pitch first, Then the Town ran on. It was uplifting to hear that tune blasting away. I should add that that music was also used in circuses. It gained another title - "Entry of the Clowns." Anyway, I do think there is a need for one particular musical theme to be played at PR for the entry of our present gladiators, preferably not a "pop" tune, to coin a phrase. The music should transcend popular culture. Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyres" would do nicely, for example.
I always imagined it was to lull the opposition into a false sense of security .... you know hearing that and thinking they are only here for a bit of fun before we regularly ripped teams apart!
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Entrance of the Gladiators on 09:03 - Dec 12 with 172 views
Entrance of the Gladiators on 08:39 - Dec 12 by norfsufblue
I always imagined it was to lull the opposition into a false sense of security .... you know hearing that and thinking they are only here for a bit of fun before we regularly ripped teams apart!
I could never wrap my head around why the team came out to clown music. I think it would have been improved if they had entered the pitch in a parade of clown cars, and the wheels fell off in a cloud of smoke.
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Entrance of the Gladiators on 10:41 - Dec 12 with 149 views
Entry of the Gladiators is circus music. No professional football club would ever have that as their entrance music, it would be ridiculed across the land.
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Entrance of the Gladiators on 11:26 - Dec 12 with 133 views
It was 70's going into 80's. My childhood into my teens.
One of the few pieces of music that can reduce me to tears.
I chose it for my Dad's funeral earlier this year; nothing says quality time at the footy with my Dad as we watched Butcher, Mariner, Muhren and co. give some poor hapless team a right going over quite like this piece of music.
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Entrance of the Gladiators on 17:10 - Dec 12 with 90 views
Entrance of the Gladiators on 20:39 - Dec 11 by RegencyBlue
I can’t remember when it started or stopped but I never liked it.
Just reminded me of bring on the clowns!
Except that, if like me, you knew it from 1959 (or probably before), I heard and associated it only with Town and was surprised when it popped up at a circus. And even then, it led me to think of the joy of Portman Rd, rather than the sawdust ring before my eyes.
Entrance of the Gladiators on 20:46 - Dec 11 by lazyblue
That was so bad when I was younger as couldn’t understand why they came out to circus music.
That was the excuse when they stopped it - but when did you last see a circus at all, let alone with this being played? Enough time has elapsed to bring it back.
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