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It is May 2009 and Discovery Channel Magazine is at Anfield, the hallowed home ground of Liverpool Football Club. Liverpool have just gone 3-0 up against an abject Newcastle side that is facing relegation under the management of its former best player, Alan Shearer, who has recently left a lucrative job on TV to try to help his boyhood team.
All of a sudden, a chant develops. “You should have stayed on the telly,” the Liverpool fans sing, to the tune of Guantanamera. “Stayed on the tellllll-y. You should have stayed on the telly.” It is a bit cruel. But Shearer has the good grace to stand up and grin in deflated acknowledgement of the crowd’s accurate barb.
But here’s the thing: where did that chant start? 40,000 people (the Liverpool home contingent of a typical Anfield game) sang it in unison. But who started it? Who thought of it? And how, within a couple of repetitions, did a crowd as big as a small town’s population all know what to sing and what tune to sing it to, without rehearsal, without instruction?
How, in short, did they all come to speak with one voice?
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