
"Who Ate All the Pies?" is a football chant sung by fans in the UK. It is usually sung to the tune of "Knees Up Mother Brown" and is aimed at overweight footballers, officials or other supporters.
The chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at the club's goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke, who weighed over 300 lb (140 kg).[1][2] In his early career he played for Blackwell Colliery, subsequently playing for Sheffield United and Chelsea FC.
If the tune used was Knees up Mother Brown, then it is highly improbable that the chant originated with Foulke who retired in 1907 and died in 1916; Knees up Mother Brown originated in 1918.[3][4] Also, Foulke weighed 178 pounds (81 kg) in 1894. According to sportswriters of the time, was nicknamed "the lengthy one" or "the octopus"; his weight gain came later.[5]
The lyrics of the chant are:
A variation replaces the second line with "The burgers and the fries."
Part of the song (the third line - "You fat bastard") has been adopted by Roy "Chubby" Brown as his anthem and is enthusiastically chanted by the audiences during his stage performances.[6][7]
This line was also chanted at gigs by 1990s indie band Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine; it is also included as the intro on their album 30 Something. It was chanted at their manager Jon Fat Beast, who had a tendency to appear on stage stripped to the waist, displaying his ample abdomen.[8]
American rock band Faith No More released a live album You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy, so named after the crowd were heard singing the chant at the band's show in April 1990.[9]
The Vegetarian Society have used a variant of this, "Who ate all the peas?", as a slogan. They displayed it on promotional hoardings in football grounds as part of their "Men and Meat Campaign", intended to combat the idea that vegetarianism is unmanly.[10]
このチャントは、1980年代から1990年代にかけて6つのサッカークラブでプレーしたストライカー、ミッキー・クインと結び付けられてきました。 [ 11 ]特に、1992年3月にクインが当時所属していたニューカッスル・ユナイテッドとグリムズビー・タウンの試合で、ファンがピッチにパイを投げ込み、クインがそれを拾い上げて食べたという事件がきっかけで、このチャントがクインと深く結び付けられました。このチャントは、2003年に出版されたクインの自伝のタイトルにもなっています。[ 12 ]
クリケットの試合中、バーミー・アーミーに所属する観客がシェーン・ウォーンなどの選手にこのチャントを向けたことが知られている。[ 13 ]
2017年2月に起きた「パイゲート」と呼ばれる事件では、サットン・ユナイテッドの23ストーンのゴールキーパー、ウェイン・ショーが試合中にパイを食べ、その後、パイを食べるオッズが8/1であることを知り、友人に密告したため、賭博法違反でFAから罰金と出場停止処分を受けた。[ 14 ]