Lock up your daughters - FA Cup fever is in the air and the Lardy Boys are on the rampage.

A far cry from the fearsome terrace "firms" of the Eighties, lard and laughter is all this wacky group of Horsham Football Club supporters is interested in.

The Lardy Boys love all things unhealthy, so lager and burgers are on the menu and songs glorifying their hatred of low-fat spread ring out from the stands.

Other stunts include parading llama on the pitch and an FA Cup tradition of using bars of lard to build a wall on the opposition dug-out.

Formed in the early Nineties by a small group of supporters who got together to write new songs, the Lardies have grown into a phenomenon and have won friends across non-league football.

Now the colourful crew will take centre stage in front of Sky cameras as the Hornets attempt to reach the third round of the FA Cup for the first time against Swansea City on Friday.

Pete Tanner, aka Bald Bloke, is a founding member of the Lardy Boys. He said: "When we first started going along to matches the football really wasn't very good and the team was struggling. Writing the songs and taking the mickey out of each other became the real attraction of going.

"These days the team is doing much better but the traditions remain and many of the songs still sung by fans date back from those early days.

"It is all just about having a laugh and we have made so many friends along the way.

"This is our last season at Queen Street and it is brilliant we have this FA Cup match. I'm really looking forward to it, I just have a feeling we can pull it off."

In the early days of the group bars of lard were sent to opponents a week before an away visit.

Among the songs belted out from the terraces at the Atspeed Stadium include 'Give Me Lard in My Heart' and 'It's just like watching Peru'.

The first few lines of every song is written on "Holy scrolls" - a 15-year-old piece of A4 paper. Such is the importance of this manuscript, annual elections are held to decide who will look after it every season.

The town's supermarkets sold out of economy lard before the FA Cup first round tie with Maidenhead. This time round, and in front of the television cameras, the Lardies will be better prepared.

Don't miss Thursday's The Argus for all the build up to the big game and pick up the weekend edition for a full match report.

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