One for the love song list: Can't take my eyes off you

We love you Paul McVeigh
And if it's quite alright
We love you Paul McVeigh
Despite your lack of height
We love you Paul McVeigh
You cross the ball and we score

It's fair to say that most of this is just padding for the payoff of the fourth line, but we thought it was worth it. Tune's a belter, too.

Is 'Chelsea Dagger' the one that goes "Doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo do-doo"? They were playing it at Edgeley Park on Friday night each time a penalty went over. To be honest I think they would have been better saving something that exuberant for tries, rather than wasting it on penalty scores. Perhaps some more subdued landfill indie would have sufficed for the pens - maybe something by Paolo Nutini.

Surely "We love you McVeigh" would scan better? Though at least your version doesn't have the cringeworthy "I'll let you shag my wife" line.

Mumpo wrote:
Is 'Chelsea Dagger' the one that goes "Doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo do-doo"?
It's more "Da, ta-da-da, ta-da-da, ta-da-da-da-da" really.

I read an interview with Benny Assou-Ekotto recently, he says the Spurs fans have adapted a famous Pussycat Dolls song for him;
"Dontcha wish your left-back was B A E"

Man City fans started that one, didn't they? "Dontcha wish your midfield had Kompany" I think it goes, which is vaguely amusing.

The one which seems to have died out, which I really miss, is "give us a goal" to the tune of "Give It To Me" by The Troggs. That was great, because it's actually quite an obscure (but brilliant) record, the popular memory of which was long outlived by the chant. I mean, loads of people remember "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", or are aware of its existence, but "Give It To Me" has been pretty comprehensively forgotten, really. I mean, it's probably even more obscure than "Son Of My Father", a song even I - as a right pop spod - had never heard until I was about 26. And when I did, my second thought (after "God I love these really weird bubblegum tunes") was "you have to say, that chant about Teddy Sheringham does fit the metre very well."

Still disappointed that no one's ever rustled up a version of "Eagle" by Abba to serenade Chris Eagles. Sure, it's not the best known song in the world, and he's not a player many people would ever have been moved to sing about, but my God it's lying there begging for it.

And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings
Flying high, high, I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

I mean, it wouldn't take a genius.

According to one Liverpool site:

To the tune of Obladi Oblada by the Beatles

A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso
A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso

He came from Sociedad to play in our midfield,
His passing and his shooting are sublime,
If we had to choose between him and Fat Frank,
We would choose Xabi everytime.

A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso
A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso

We drew Luton Town in the FA Cup,
Xabi and the keeper had a race,
Xabi had a shot from 70 yards,
You should have seen the look on Gerrard's face.

A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso
A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso

satchmo76 wrote:
According to one Liverpool site:

To the tune of Obladi Oblada by the Beatles

A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso
A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso

He came from Sociedad to play in our midfield,
His passing and his shooting are sublime,
If we had to choose between him and Fat Frank,
We would choose Xabi everytime.

A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso
A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso

We drew Luton Town in the FA Cup,
Xabi and the keeper had a race,
Xabi had a shot from 70 yards,
You should have seen the look on Gerrard's face.

A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso
A-L-O-N-S-O It's Alonso, Xabi Xabi Alonso

Seen that in 'print' but can't say I have ever heard it sung.

I was at a Spurs game a few seasons back when Rafa was in charge, there was an impromptu 'La Bamba' song naming many of our then Spanish players. As I recall it went

Oh Rafa Rafa Rafa Bentitez
Oh Rafa Rafa Rafa Bentitez

Oh Josemi
oh Garcia Garcia
Oh Garcia Garcia,
Xabi Alonso, Xabi Alonso, Xabi Alonso

Rafa Rafa, Rafa Rafa..(repeat to fade)

There was a reference to Nunez but can't for the life of me remember where it fitted in.

Whilst watching the Barca game tonight I definitely heard a chant to the tune of Karma Chameleon from the Leverkusen crowd.