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Football and music...an uneasy marriage?
Posted by peterthecook on 17 February 2009 - 4:38pm.
Whilst watching Man Utd on the box with a chum a few weeks ago, the match began to drift somewhat. It was then that the musical/footy fusion took place, with Man U's players naturally lending themselves to song-based punnery. Here's what we came up with so far...
Love Cushack - The B52s
Sympathy for the Neville - Rolling Stones
Jonny Evans Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths
Evra Breath you Take - Police
99 Problems but Vidic ain't One - Jay-Z
For Whom the Bell Scholes - the Bee Gees
The Fields of Athen Ryan Giggs - Irish Trad.
We then moved on to the match pundits. Dirty Old Townsend, anyone?
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'I'm Shakin'
by Rooney
'Take Me Out'
by Reo 'Franz' Ferdinand
'War'
by Edwin Van de Starr
'Save Your Love'
by Rafael & Ronaldo
'Fletcher By Golly Wow'
By The Stylistics
Ji-Sung
Park Life
Carrickfergus
.
carrickferguson
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Heaton
Rifles
'Only Love'
Nani Mouskouri
A couple for the Gooners in the Massive
'The Diaby-for you came' by Abba
'Do Anything You Want Djourou' by Eduardo and the Hot Rods
'Walcott the Wild Side' by Lou Reed
And Alex Song is just too easy...!
(No subject)
I almost forgot...
Rooneys Up, Mother Brown.
The George Best of you
The Foo Fighters
Andy Gray Day
Madness
Neville Neville....
...your face is a mess.
Reminds me of my favourite ever football chant
Sang when Gary and Phil both played for Man United:
Neville Neville
They play in defence
Neville Neville
Their future's immense
Neville Neville
They ain't half bad
Neville Neville
That's the name of their Dad
I fought...
...D Law and D Law won.
Mmm Bop
Hansen
Walking
...in a winter ( Alan ) Sunderland
Take me home...
Jordan Rhodes, to a place etc, etc."
Rhodes is currently a player with Division 2 topping (you can't imagine how much pleasure I derive from typing those words) Brentford FC, on loan from Ipswich Town.
Me and about three other 40'ish reprobates who ought to know better, currently stand on the Ealing Road terrace on a Saturday afternoon and try and get the youngsters surrounding us to join in the song. Our problem is that the youth of today don't recognise a John Denver tune when they hear one.
Speaking as an ITFC fan
May we have him back please? We'll give you any of our other strikers in return.
There was a time that
Patrick Mboma had a brief stint at Sunderland. Alas I don't think he stayed long enough for the Wearside fans to take the opportunity to adapt Motorhead to:
"He shoots to kill
You know he always will
He's Mboma, he's Mboma"
Peter Ndlovu
Does anyone remember the Coventry winger Peter Ndlovu? Ray Stubbs put in an amusing turn on Fantasy League football a few years ago, dressed in a white suit, crooning the words, "Peter Ndloooove". He was a good little player actually - Ndlovu, not Stubbs - wonder what happened to him?
Ndlovu
He only left England five years ago and he's currently playing for South African club Thanda Royal Zulu
Giggs,
Giggs will tear you apart, again....
Joy Division's most popular number reworked by the Stretford End
Joe R
Can we give you Rhodes back when we are guaranteed promotion? Hopefully that will be sooner than the time it takes me to teach the Brentford massive to sing:-)
*sigh*
I guess so, we're destined for mid-table mediocrity this season and I don't think anyone can change that.
In the interim, we'll have to sing:
Jordan Rhodes
Please come home
to the place
you belong
West... damn, we're not really West of anywhere, perhaps Belgium
Brentford and massive
Brentford and masssive, two words you don't usually see in close proximity. :-)
PS Thanks for Martin Rowlands a few years back.