Football and music have long been bedfellows. George Best was known as ‘El Beatle’. Many a terrace chant originated in the recording studio (can Chicory Tip really have imagined their seminal hit Son Of My Father would one day be reinvented to taunt Teddy Sheringham prematurely about how little he’d won at United?). And of course Tomas Rosicky looks like K.D. Lang.
As the Euros are underway, then, it’s inevitable that we should resurrect what I’ll always know as ‘The Game’. For the uninitiated – shame on you and prepare to lose valuable hours of your life – it’s this: footballers’ names in song titles. Pun-tastic. My original blog post from 2010’s World Cup explains the rules and history in full:
http://grubsport.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/from-relight-ketsbaia-to-navas-what-i.html
Here’s an embryonic Euro 2012 list, to which you’ll undoubtedly want to add…
The Soundtrack To Euro 2012…By Half Man Half Busquets
Featuring Szczesny Hawkes
Nani, I’m Not Your Daddy
They Will Never Torres Apart
Cabaye Bye Baby
If I Were Modric Man
John O’Shea (All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away)
Greetings To The Neuer Brunette
Wayne Will I Be Famous?
Given On A Prayer
Chiellini-ng On A Lamp Post
Papadopoulos Don’t Preach
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kvist Me, Kill Me
We’re Arshavin A Party
Tears On My Pilar
This Van Der Wiel’s On Fire
Olsson Of My Father
Is Devic There?
99 Problems (Jelavic ain't one)
ReplyDeleteLife on Schaars
Monster Garmash
Very fond of 99 Problems (Jelavic Ain't One).
DeleteBased on yesterday's game:
DeleteDiarra so Baines,
Every time you say Cabaye,
Young at Hart,
BenArfa Park(er)
Living in a Boxlade-Chamberlain?
(I like the crap ones best)
Some children's classics too: Skip to Malouda and Red Lloris Yellow Lloris.
Skip To Malouda's nice (but we used it in World Cup 2010 list).
DeleteOn your kids' songs theme: PostigaMan Pat. Or indeed Eye Of The Postiga (because we had Schweinsteiger previously).
Eye of the Postiga isn't a kids song. It's a rock classic (although come to think of it my 7 year old plays it on his guitar...).
DeleteBalotellitubbies?
Krul for Cats
ReplyDeleteHow about 'The Road to Mandandalay' in anticipation of tonight's game.
ReplyDeleteCrocodile Kroos
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