Blue Is the Colour (song)
It was performed by players from the Chelsea squad and released in 1972 to coincide with the club's ultimately unsuccessful appearance in that year's League Cup Final against Stoke City.[10] The song was covered by Czech singer František Ringo Čech under the title Zelená je tráva (Green Is The Grass), and has become a popular football anthem in former Czechoslovakia.[citation needed] In 1975, Erik Beck adapted the song as "Green is the Color"[12] to honor the opening season of the Portland Timbers in the North American Soccer League.Beck and his friends Ron Brady and Peter Yeates later recorded the song, which was released as a single in 1976 and went on to sell 8,000 copies and receive airplay on Portland radio stations throughout the 1970s and 1980s.An adapted version called "Green is the Colour" with lyrics by Steve Mazurak is the official fight song of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League since 1981.[17] Supporters of the Norwegian team Molde FK also use a variant of a song, where the title ("Blått er vår farge") directly translates to "Blue is our colour".