© Getty Images As well as providing the fairy tale of UEFA EURO 2016, Iceland also served up the tournament’s most memorable soundtrack.
Dubbed the ‘Iceland Clap’, ‘Thunderclap’ or, most commonly, ‘Viking Clap’, it was – as anyone who watched their matches will recall – a noisy and visually spectacular display of synchronicity. Like the performances of their team, the Icelandic fans’ display owed much to unity and gathering momentum, with pauses – long at first, then steadily shortening – separating claps and chants of ‘Huh!’
With Iceland making their EURO debut, having become the smallest nation ever to participate in a major tournament, some assumed that this chant was a long-held tradition finally being showcased to the wider world. Nothing, though, could have been further from the truth, as veteran defender Kari Arnason explained.
“It was completely new – the EURO was the first time any of us had seen it. I’d never even heard of it before,” he told FIFA.com. “It was brilliant thou..
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