Who ate all the Victorian pies

[TheGuru]

The football chant "Who ate all the pies?" dates back more than 100 years, researchers have discovered.




Sung to the tune of Knees Up Mother Brown, it was directed at Sheffield United's 24-stone goalkeeper William 'Fatty' Foulke by his own fans in 1894.

The history was revealed in new dictionary The Penguin Book of Cliches, reports The Sun.

It also notes that the phrase 'Over the moon' comes from the nursery rhyme line 'The cow jumped over the moon'.

The expression was used by Victorian aristocrats as part of a language which they used to exclude outsiders.

The term 'Mad for it', associated with Oasis, apparently dates from 1670 and had the same meaning - to be excited.