I made it much more known because I used it at the start of concerts and because I was on national TV it was picked up and everyone used it. "It's attributed to me everywhere, quite wrongly. The troubadour of Welsh rugby, who popularised the chant during the golden years of Welsh rugby in the 1970s, explained, "It almost certainly came from Cornwall, hence the Cornish name 'oggy' for a Cornish pasty. It's a chant familiar to a generation of rugby fans, synonymous with Max Boyce, and which even had an airing at the Oscars thanks to an emotionally patriotic Catherine Zeta-Jones.īut the origins of these famous words - which bizarrely translate as "Pasty! Pasty! Pasty!" - were yesterday revealed to be from across the Bristol Channel.Īnd this was confirmed by none other than Max Boyce himself. THE terrace chant of "Oggy! Oggy! Oggy!" that rings out whenever Wales play may not be quite so Welsh after all.
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