sublicon
16 Aug 2007, 05:34 PM
Nothing big or major, just reading an article in FourFourTwo about how there was a competition in 2003 for someone to come up with "the nation's best football chant."
The winner was this dude from Birmingham City, who composed a chant based on Barry Manilow's "Copacabana", about a player you might know.
His name is Angel
And he's a show boy
An Alice band keeps up his hair
Juan Pablo from Col-um-bi-air
Hehe, funny. Anyway, if you don't pick up the mag, its a good read for those of us who follow the premiership. Thought I might mention it. The article goes into the origins of communal singing, so it might be an interesting read for any of us, really, especially those who don't understand why we can't get it going here in the states.
It has HISTORY over there...
"As far back as the 1600's, newspaper reports spoke in hushed tones of subversive chants at matches, the disapproving press citing the demon drink as the cause for frequently blasphemous songs. The Cambridge Review of 1609 noted "a companye of lewde and disordered persons singeing and chanteing footbale songes in the said towne of Manchester...breaking windows and glasse"
enjoy.
The winner was this dude from Birmingham City, who composed a chant based on Barry Manilow's "Copacabana", about a player you might know.
His name is Angel
And he's a show boy
An Alice band keeps up his hair
Juan Pablo from Col-um-bi-air
Hehe, funny. Anyway, if you don't pick up the mag, its a good read for those of us who follow the premiership. Thought I might mention it. The article goes into the origins of communal singing, so it might be an interesting read for any of us, really, especially those who don't understand why we can't get it going here in the states.
It has HISTORY over there...
"As far back as the 1600's, newspaper reports spoke in hushed tones of subversive chants at matches, the disapproving press citing the demon drink as the cause for frequently blasphemous songs. The Cambridge Review of 1609 noted "a companye of lewde and disordered persons singeing and chanteing footbale songes in the said towne of Manchester...breaking windows and glasse"
enjoy.