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We Pay Your Benefits
Charlton Athletic's working class-versus-rivals terrace dig.
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A classic terrace taunt in English football, the away end gets told it lives off the home fans' taxes. Charlton Athletic deploy it at The Valley with full conviction. Blunt, provocative, and very much part of the Charlton Athletic chants arsenal. Lyrics here.
Lyrics for We Pay Your Benefits
We pay your benefits,
We pay your benefits,
We pay your benefits,
We pay your benefits...
Language · English
Team · Charlton
Behind the chant
What's the story behind We Pay Your Benefits?
The 'We Pay Your Benefits' chant has become a staple of terrace banter across English football, with dozens of clubs adapting it for their local rivalry context.