‘And if you know your history’ sounds like the sort of thing a politician might say, or a pub bore.
To hear several thousand people say those words together, you would need to be at the football.
Fans as far apart as Glasgow, Liverpool and London can be heard singing them (after a fashion) in the chant that Celtic, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur all claim as their own, ‘It's a grand old team to play for’.
When over the past few years I have told
