Wolves, overwhelming favourites on Friday but a team with a solitary win in seven matches in all competitions, will shudder at the very thought that they could leave Lancashire to the strains of Adele booming out of the home dressing room later this week.Ĭhanging rooms across all levels of the game have throbbed to the blare of teams’ tunes of choice since the emergence of the ghetto blaster way back in the 1980s. You need that togetherness so, when we were promoted and when we’ve had big cups wins, it’s always been that song.” “Look, it’s just great to share something like that at the end of the game. Everybody gets together, and there’s a little bit in the middle where you can really get into it. “It’s not your typical song you’d have on in the dressing room to celebrate a win, but everybody knows it. “They wanted a song that was special to them, one that everyone knew,” said Andy Preece, who combines a role on the first-team coaching staff with duties leading the club’s education programme. A squad bonding in victory and hollering to the rafters as one. Then again, it is always possible to find pleasure in music and, with its anthemic chorus, this is more about familiarity and unity than anything else. Or, even, that recent 2-0 win over Derby’s awkward blend of under-23s and youth teamers.
She posted a heart emoji - her first Tweet since October - in response to a video of the players’ singalong on Chorley’s official feed, but surely could never have imagined the song would be a non-League football squad’s adopted track to salute, say, their 4-3 penalty shootout success over Spennymoor to gain promotion two years ago. The adrenaline-fuelled players tend to seize on the second stanza to thump on whatever is to hand - the ceiling, walls, tables, tactical whiteboards with magnetic discs sent flying around the room - to inject some energy into their rendition, but, even if the composer has admitted she found it cathartic to write, none of this is upbeat. She is broken-hearted, the tempo slow and the subject matter more sombre than defiant. The goalkeeper Matt Urwin claims just thinking about the song gives him “the chills” and every time he hears the multi-award-winning singer-songwriter mournfully wishing her ex “nothing but the best”, it instantly - and incongruously - catapults him back to joyous times basking with his team-mates in victory. It seems an odd choice to bring a group together in celebration.Īdele penned the verses in the aftermath of an 18-month relationship with the man she once envisaged she would marry. The captain Scott Leather used to watch his predecessor Andy Teague put it on and now considers those duties his own “because it’s a bit of a belter, to be fair, isn’t it?” He usually waits for the initial frenzy of Danzel’s Pump It Up, which tends to accompany the victorious players as they bounce back into the changing room, to die down before responding to the calls of, “We want Adele”. The current manager Jamie Vermiglio, like Jansen, would initially have belted it out as a player at Victory Park, but choruses it just as vigorously in his new role these days.Īll this club’s notable recent successes, from promotion to the National League in 2019 to this season’s cup run, have been decorated by hearty post-match renditions. Matt Jansen, a player at Chorley at the time before enjoying his own stint in the dugout, remembers hearing it after one win “and all the lads broke into song, and it just stuck”. Yet this all pre-dates the startling victories over Derby County and Peterborough United, Wigan Athletic and York City, which have carried them into Friday’s tie with Wolverhampton Wanderers.Īsk those around the club and the consensus is they first latched on to Adele’s melodious lament over a defunct relationship when Garry Flitcroft was in charge, three managers ago, probably while the song was lingering at the top of the charts in 19 countries at the start of the last decade. The outside world may only have become aware of the unlikely association as the club from the sixth tier have progressed thrillingly into the fourth round of the FA Cup, their feats accompanied on social media by those bellowed post-match renditions of the ballad delivered in cramped dressing rooms, all armpits and howling to the heavens through a sweaty fug. No one can quite put their finger on why Chorley adopted Someone Like You as their victory anthem. After Chorley Town's FA Cup win they revisit his 2018 study tracking how Premier League academy players use music to psych themselves up. Professor Costas Karageorghis, divisional lead, sport, health and exercise sciences spoke to The Athletic for this feature.
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