Didsbury Dave
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If we sign Kaka this will be yet another signing by Manchester City with a name which does not naturally fit into a song.
Back in the good old days the club always considered this. Probably the two strangest names we had playing for the club in the 90s were Georgi Kinkladze and Maurizio Gaudinio. However Franny Lee was fully aware that even these mouthful of consonents could easily be gracefully slotted into song.
These days, the club don't seem to give a shit, and I blame the new stadium. OK, they've slipped us a Bainchi and a Benjani in the full knowledge that they would get the blindingly obvious "whooaahohawoh" treatment. But these were both shite players who didn't get enough goals.
Since then the club has taken the piss. Elano was bad enough, mainly because he didn't have a first name or nickname, but Jo was impossible. One syllable? you can't sing just one sylabble. And Robinho was a bit of a stinker, too. I mean if his name was "Jimmy Robinho" or something, it would have been easy, but on it's own it just doesn't work in any song. We've lamely inserted "We've got" instead of Jimmy, but it doesn't really work, does it?
Maybe its a Brazilian thing. Their names don't fit into our plodding English terrace anthems. They need a drumbeat and sunshine in the air, and their names chanted slowly by blonde buxum beauties. Kaka is the same, if not worse. We can't sing "Walking in a Kaka Wonderland" unless we prefix it with "There's only one fucking Kaka". It doesn't work, does it?
Yet again our club look like they are about to shit on our wonderful supporters from a great height. Ban the Brazillians, please. We need songs not stars.
Back in the good old days the club always considered this. Probably the two strangest names we had playing for the club in the 90s were Georgi Kinkladze and Maurizio Gaudinio. However Franny Lee was fully aware that even these mouthful of consonents could easily be gracefully slotted into song.
These days, the club don't seem to give a shit, and I blame the new stadium. OK, they've slipped us a Bainchi and a Benjani in the full knowledge that they would get the blindingly obvious "whooaahohawoh" treatment. But these were both shite players who didn't get enough goals.
Since then the club has taken the piss. Elano was bad enough, mainly because he didn't have a first name or nickname, but Jo was impossible. One syllable? you can't sing just one sylabble. And Robinho was a bit of a stinker, too. I mean if his name was "Jimmy Robinho" or something, it would have been easy, but on it's own it just doesn't work in any song. We've lamely inserted "We've got" instead of Jimmy, but it doesn't really work, does it?
Maybe its a Brazilian thing. Their names don't fit into our plodding English terrace anthems. They need a drumbeat and sunshine in the air, and their names chanted slowly by blonde buxum beauties. Kaka is the same, if not worse. We can't sing "Walking in a Kaka Wonderland" unless we prefix it with "There's only one fucking Kaka". It doesn't work, does it?
Yet again our club look like they are about to shit on our wonderful supporters from a great height. Ban the Brazillians, please. We need songs not stars.