This was especially popular during his 50-goal season in the 2007–08 NHL season. 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. replacing the word Oi with the word Chiefs. The chant has been adopted by the fans of English rugby union premiership side Wasps changing "Oggy" to "Allez" and "Oi" to "Wasps" and the Exeter Chiefs. (In many dialects of American English, "Augie" and "Oggy" are homophones). Īt Arizona Diamondbacks games during the 2008–09 seasons, fans would shout "Augie Augie Augie, Oi Oi Oi" in reference to utility infielder Augie Ojeda. The chant had found widespread popularity by the time of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. It had been heard at Australian sporting events as early as 1987. 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.Īnother variation is the " Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi" chant. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant (" Maggie Maggie Maggie, Out Out Out!") was adopted by some of her opponents. football fans changed it to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the footballer and speedway fans in the 70's and early 80's would chant "Ollie Ollie Ollie to cheer on Danish rider Ole Olsen.
fans adapted it to "Waggy," to cheer for Ken Wagstaff and in the 1970s, Chelsea F.C. Several variations of the "Oggy" chant have arisen as its cultural significance and recognition has grown. "An Oggy" as it is termed within Troops and Units is usually used at Scouting events and as a way of expressing thanks to those within and outside Scouting. Oggy Oggy Oggy has long been a major chant within Scouting and Guiding, especially within the UK. It is also often used at sideshows on rides such as the Heartbreaker and the Waltzers, where the rides controller says "oggie, oggie, oggie" and the people on the ride shout 'oi, oi, oi" to get the ride to speed up or get more spins etc. The chant was also used by Coventry City football fans during the 1980s and 1990s in appreciation to then goalkeeper Steve Ogrizovic who had been nicknamed 'Oggy'. In a patriotic outburst during her BAFTA Award acceptance speech in 2003 Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones shouted the chant. Soon it spread to rugby crowds at club and international level. Boyce is also a big rugby union fan, and through him it then began to be adopted by Welsh rugby union crowds at international matches. In the 1970s the Welsh folk singer and comedian Max Boyce popularised the chant to excite the crowd at his concerts. It was then adopted at a few British football grounds at some point during the postwar period, and was certainly in common use by the 1960s most notably at Home Park amongst the supporters of Plymouth Argyle. (The field gun competition was disbanded in 1999 after a hundred years of competition and the infantry regiment folded into The Rifles in 2007). The 'Oggie, Oggie, Oggie' chant was used by supporters of the Royal Navy's Devonport Field Gun Team and by members of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. Members of the Royal Navy claim to have used the chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War. Probably an alteration of Cornish hoggan pastry, pie (18th century), perhaps cognate with Welsh chwiogen muffin, simnel cake (1562), of unknown origin." The Oxford English Dictionary (2004) entry for "Oggy" states: "Oggy, noun. The chant is also the chorus of a folk song and has always been heard at Cornish rugby matches so this seem another possible origin. Tin-miners' wives or pasty sellers supposedly shouted "Oggy Oggy Oggy" – the response from any hungry miner or labourer would be Oi!, Oi!, Oi!. The chant formed the traditional end to the Tiddy Oggy Song, the unofficial anthem of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and The Devonport marines are still associated with the song Oggie Man by Cyril Tawney which they generally sing at public displays. "Oggy" is a slang term for a Cornish pasty or the Devonian variant, derived from its Cornish and Devonian name, " hoggan", and was used by local Devon and Cornish sailors at the Devonport Dockyard in reference to pasty sellers who stand outside the gates. One theory for the origin of the chant stems from Devonport in the county of Devon.
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