My memory might be faulty on this, but as I recall it, the Wheelbarrow Song was effectively dropped by the Notts crowd within a few months of adopting it as a silly superstition ritual for as long as it took to secure promotion. Once we'd won the Play Off final, it had served its' purpose.

As we went into 1990/91 and the first few losses had killed off the Wheelbarrow as a lucky charm that had never previously failed to inspire a result, a few people would occasionally try and get it going again for old time's sake, like singing a song you'd leaned back in Junior school on a Comprehensive school playground just to be daft amongst yourselves, but you'd look stupid and probably get beaten up trying to sing it in front of the big kids who were now hanging around (the likes of Wolves, Leicester, Middlesbrough, Sheff Wed and Newcastle, who we were playing that season, as opposed to Shrewsbury, Crewe, Walsall and Tranmere).

Then the FA Cup run happened, which at that time was an excuse to party a bit and take things less seriously (the inflatables craze was largely associated with that competition). I'm guessing The Wheelbarrow might have enjoyed a revival at the 5-2 win at Hull in Round 3 (where we'd played the opening game of the season and won, with the song still working its' magic), it must have been sung v Man City because by the time we played Spurs in the QF, John Motson had picked up on it and mentioned it during the commentary and that was the point it became the club's terrace anthem. I think there was a realisation with that TV broadcast that "Oh, the football world has noticed we do this silly song and associates it with us, we'd better start doing this properly from now on."