football fans changed it to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the footballer and speedway fans in the 70's and early 80's would chant "Ollie Ollie Ollie to cheer on Danish rider Ole Olsen. fans adapted it to "Waggy," to cheer for Ken Wagstaff and in the 1970s, Chelsea F.C. Several variations of the "Oggy" chant have arisen as its cultural significance and recognition has grown. "An Oggy" as it is termed within Troops and Units is usually used at Scouting events and as a way of expressing thanks to those within and outside Scouting. Oggy Oggy Oggy has long been a major chant within Scouting and Guiding, especially within the UK. It is also often used at sideshows on rides such as the Heartbreaker and the Waltzers, where the rides controller says "oggie, oggie, oggie" and the people on the ride shout 'oi, oi, oi" to get the ride to speed up or get more spins etc.
The chant was also used by Coventry City football fans during the 1980s and 1990s in appreciation to then goalkeeper Steve Ogrizovic who had been nicknamed 'Oggy'. In a patriotic outburst during her BAFTA Award acceptance speech in 2003 Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones shouted the chant. Soon it spread to rugby crowds at club and international level. Boyce is also a big rugby union fan, and through him it then began to be adopted by Welsh rugby union crowds at international matches. In the 1970s the Welsh folk singer and comedian Max Boyce popularised the chant to excite the crowd at his concerts. It was then adopted at a few British football grounds at some point during the postwar period, and was certainly in common use by the 1960s most notably at Home Park amongst the supporters of Plymouth Argyle. (The field gun competition was disbanded in 1999 after a hundred years of competition and the infantry regiment folded into The Rifles in 2007). The 'Oggie, Oggie, Oggie' chant was used by supporters of the Royal Navy's Devonport Field Gun Team and by members of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. Members of the Royal Navy claim to have used the chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War. Probably an alteration of Cornish hoggan pastry, pie (18th century), perhaps cognate with Welsh chwiogen muffin, simnel cake (1562), of unknown origin." The Oxford English Dictionary (2004) entry for "Oggy" states: "Oggy, noun. The chant is also the chorus of a folk song and has always been heard at Cornish rugby matches so this seem another possible origin.
Tin-miners' wives or pasty sellers supposedly shouted "Oggy Oggy Oggy" – the response from any hungry miner or labourer would be Oi!, Oi!, Oi!. The chant formed the traditional end to the Tiddy Oggy Song, the unofficial anthem of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and The Devonport marines are still associated with the song Oggie Man by Cyril Tawney which they generally sing at public displays. "Oggy" is a slang term for a Cornish pasty or the Devonian variant, derived from its Cornish and Devonian name, " hoggan", and was used by local Devon and Cornish sailors at the Devonport Dockyard in reference to pasty sellers who once stood outside the gates. One theory for the origin of the chant stems from Devonport in the county of Devon. Oggy Oggy Oggy! Oi Oi Oi! Oggy Oggy Oggy! Oi Oi Oi! Oggy! Oi! Oggy! Oi! Oggy Oggy Oggy! Oi Oi Oi! Origins The words are shouted according to the following pattern. The usual form of the chant consists of two groups, one shouting the word "Oggy!" and the other group shouting the word " Oi!" Often a single individual will shout "Oggy" and everyone else will shout the reply, "Oi!".
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