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"Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi" is a cheer or chant often performed at Australian sport events. It is a variation of the Oggy Oggy Oggy chant used by both association football and rugby union fans in Great Britain from the 1970s onwards. It is usually performed by a crowd uniting to support a sports team or athlete. The alternate is for an individual to chant the line "Aussie, Aussie Aussie!" and the crowd to respond with "Oi! Oi! Oi!".
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Definition
The full version of the chant, as heard prior to a free outdoor concert at the time of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and quoted by Luba Vangelova of CNNSI,[1] is as follows:-
- Man: "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!"
- Crowd: "Oi! Oi! Oi!"
- Man: "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!"
- Crowd: "Oi! Oi! Oi!"
- Man: "Aussie!"
- Crowd: "Oi!"
- Man: "Aussie!"
- Crowd: "Oi!"
- Man (faster): "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!"
- Crowd (equally fast): "Oi! Oi! Oi!"
The chant was widely used during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, being heard at many public entertainment venues and also on public transport. The chant came to be commonly heard at international sporting events where an Australian team was a competitor.
Origins
A chant of similar form, "Oggy Oggy Oggy", has been used for decades by football crowds in Britain.
Members of the British Royal Navy claim to have used the Oggy Oggy Oggy chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War.[2]
Englishman Ron Knox claims to have used the "Oggy" chant while playing for the Box Hill Rugby Club in Melbourne in the late 1960s. Various conflicting stories of how it was introduced to Australia can be found.[3]
Commercial and publicity uses
In 2004, a Melbourne couple, inspired by a Dick Smith campaign supporting Australian-made products, and following publicity surrounding the ownership of the trademark for the Australian-developed Ugg boots being owned by a US company, registered the phrase as an official trademark in an effort to protect it from overseas exploitation.[4]
At the conclusion of the Prize giving ceremony for the 2008 Super 14 final at AMI Stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand, the winning team, the Crusaders, chanted "Robbie Robbie Robbie Oi Oi Oi" to farewell their Coach Robbie Deans, who was leaving to coach the Australian national team, the Wallabies.
See also
References
- ^ Luba Vangelova, Oi, Oi, Oy, CNN Sports Illustrated, Wednesday September 27, 2000 [1]
- ^ //myweb.tiscali.co.uk/navysong/Data/S0022.HTM Oggie Song
- ^ Aussie 'Oggie, Oi' chant introduced by Englishman - Ananova
- ^ "Oi, Oi, Oi. What's this?". The Age. 2004-03-04. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/04/1078295490745.html. Retrieved 2007-05-22.
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- Man: "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!"
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