"The football chant ""who ate all the pies?"" is usually sung to the tune of which music hall ditty?"
Who Ate All the Pies? Who Ate All the Pies? "Who Ate All the Pies?" is a football chant sung by fans in the United Kingdom. It is usually sung to the tune of "Knees Up Mother Brown" and is aimed at overweight footballers, officials or other supporters. In Britain, fans at football games sometimes eat meat pies before kick-off or at half-time. On occasion there are not enough pies to go round and so any player looking a little overweight gets heckled with the question "Who ate all the pies?".. According to "The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Cliches", the chant was first
Who Ate All the Pies? threw a pie onto the pitch which Quinn promptly picked up and ate. The chant even formed the title for Quinn's autobiography, which was published in 2003. During cricket matches, the chant is known to have been directed at players such as Shane Warne, by spectators belonging to the Barmy Army. In a February 2017 incident dubbed "piegate", 23-stone Sutton goalkeper Wayne Shaw was fined and suspended by the FA, for eating a pie on television, in breach of gambling laws. Who Ate All the Pies? "Who Ate All the Pies?" is a football chant sung by fans in the