Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Oggy Oggy Oggy
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Variations== Several variations of the "Oggy" chant have arisen as its cultural significance and recognition has grown. In the mid-1960s [[Hull City A.F.C.]] fans adapted it to "Waggy," to cheer for [[Ken Wagstaff]] and in the 1970s, [[Chelsea F.C.]] football fans changed it to "Ozzie," in honour of [[Peter Osgood]], the footballer and speedway fans in the 70s and early 80s would chant "Ollie Ollie Ollie" to cheer on Danish rider Ole Olsen.<ref name="Boyce"/> When [[Margaret Thatcher]] came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("[[Maggie Out|Maggie Maggie Maggie, Out Out Out!]]") was adopted by some of her opponents.<ref name="Maggie">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/themargaretthatcheryears/1895878/Margaret-Thatcher-inspiration-to-New-Labour.html|title=Margaret Thatcher, inspiration to New Labour|first=John|last=Kampfner|date=16 April 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=19 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019082215/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/themargaretthatcheryears/1895878/Margaret-Thatcher-inspiration-to-New-Labour.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The "Oggy" chant was quite popular in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the matches of North American Soccer League version of the Vancouver Whitecaps. Another variation is the "[[Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi]]" chant. It had been heard at Australian sporting events as early as 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-02-sp-2-story.html |title=Mike Downey, ''Hoisting a Few' Does Not Just Mean Raising the Sails'', Los Angeles Times, Wednesday February 2, 1987 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2 February 1987 |access-date=28 February 2010 |archive-date=9 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709143723/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-02/sports/sp-2_1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The chant had found widespread popularity by the time of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.<ref name="LV">Luba Vangelova, ''Oi, Oi, Oy'', CNN Sports Illustrated, Wednesday 27 September 2000 [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/09/27/sydney_scene/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105192340/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/09/27/sydney_scene/|date=5 November 2013}}</ref> At Arizona Diamondbacks games during the 2008–09 seasons, fans would shout "Augie Augie Augie, Oi Oi Oi" in reference to utility infielder [[Augie Ojeda]]. (In many dialects of [[American English]], "Augie" and "Oggy" are [[homophone]]s). At Seattle Storm WNBA basketball games, when Ezi Magbegor scores, the announcer chants, "Ezi, Ezi, Ezi," to which the fans repspond, "Oi, Oi, Oi!" The chant has been adopted by the fans of English [[rugby union]] [[Guinness Premiership|premiership]] side [[Wasps RFC|Wasps]] changing "Oggy" to "Allez" and "Oi" to "Wasps" and the [[Exeter Chiefs]]. replacing the word ''Oi'' with the word ''Chiefs''. The chant was also popular in [[Calgary]], Alberta, Canada, where a variation had fans of the [[Calgary Flames]] shout "Iggy, Iggy, Iggy, Oi Oi Oi" when [[Jarome Iginla]] fought or scored in a game. This was especially popular during his 50-goal season in the 2007–08 NHL season. In Sweden, a popular version of the chant is "''Bira Bira Bira, Bärs Bärs Bärs''". Both words are slang for [[beer]]. It is used mostly among students and young people. In France, there is another version: "''Atchik Atchik Atchik, Aie Aie Aie''". It's usually played in football match. This ''Tchik-atchik-atchik-aï-aï-aï'' is reminiscent of the song ''La Belle de Cadix'' by Francis Lopez. The chant appeared with only the Oggies audible in the first episode of the second series of [[The Office (UK)|''The Office'']], as a result of a conversation with the Oggmonster.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Oggy Oggy Oggy
(section)
Add topic