The phrase "English chant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a chant or song from England, or about England. For example: The sound of the English chant echoed through the stadium, stirring up the crowd.
Tapia, who speaks little English, chanted softly: "People are with you / New York is proud of you, hey".
From nasty to boring and folkloric to funny, the chants are a window into how a team's fans fire up a stadium: Italian chants are melodic, Greek chants are foot-stomping, English chants are creative.
Look at incidents across Europe, such as the Serbia v Albania fiasco and the suspension of Italy v Croatia, and you realise that there are far worse things in football than foolish English chants.
SportsCenter features some of America's sparkiest sports commentators, whose banter is as irreverent as an English football chant, minus the swearing.
His response to the English football chant of "One world cup and two world wars", answered with "Three World Cups and one world Pope" is typical, using blunt logic to show up the nonsense of narrow-mindedness.
From an aesthetic standpoint, our attempt to sing "Ave Maris Stella," an English liturgical chant composed in honor of the Virgin Mary, left much to be desired, even though producing a pitch-perfect performance was not the aim of the day.
There's some English footy chanting at the MGM Grand, but that was possibly Collazo's best round.
Activists, some wearing balaclavas and others waving English flags, chanted "Muslim bombers off our streets" and "Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah".
There were tents and large mats on the ground, men sprawled smoking water pipes, children being held on laps, people holding signs in Arabic and English, youngsters chanting slogans.
"I read the article in the Nation about UK Uncut, found about this and said to myself, 'I'm there'," Kathryn Munnell, a high school English teacher chanting in front of the Bank of America branch, told me.
