Every fortnight we cover the best and worst football songs from every club in the UK from our book ‘The Sound Of Football: Every Club, Every Song’. You can buy it here

Edinburgh City FC

Nickname: The Citizens

Ground: Ainslie Park (temporary)

Stadium Capacity: 3,500

Song: The Racecourse Red and Blues 

The Citizen’s created history by becoming the first-ever club to win promotion to the SPFL via the Pyramid Play-Offs,  after winning a second successive Lowland League title in 2015/16. In the years since they have consolidated their position in the SPFL. 

Our search for a song did lead to a fantastic song by Chris Rogers, which was runner up in the Edinburgh FC Song of the Year competition in 2000. After checking more closely, we realised the Edinburgh FC stood for Edinburgh folk club. D’oh! However, the song, an elegy to what it means to be a football fan, is well worth seeking out because who cannot relate to this:

“My father should shoulder the blame,

For starting me off on this way.

It’s never been glory or fame

That brings me back day after day.

Obsession was born in the 60s,

Never was broken again,

A lifetime of pity began with York City,

A nothing-each draw in the rain.”