THE BEST FOOTBALL-RELATED SONG EVER?

Some of you will know that my mate who died a few weeks ago was, for much of his life, a professional footballer.  One who made 327 appearances in total for Raith Rovers, the team that I follow here in Scotland.

He was with the Rovers from 1988 - 1996 and he also did a lot to help the club and its supporters many years later at a time when both were in need.  Those supporters have bestowed the word 'legend' on him.  Indeed they did so before news of his illness became known.  It wasn't a word my mate was ever comfortable with - he felt it is used far too often and loosely in sport to have real meaning - but as others have said to me over the past few weeks, it is a word that is just right for him.  Anyone interested can click here and see a tribute paid to him by the club and its fans.  The main photo of his was, quite unbelievably, taken just 16 days before his death.  That shows how quickly and unexpectedly leukaemia can finish you off....

As these special series of postings from myself and others draw to a close, I wanted to find a song that was football related and which always brings a smile to my face.  It just had to be this 1987 track:-

mp3 : Half Man Half Biscuit - I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan

Woke up this morning, found myself in bed
My knowledge of the blues is somewhat nil
I’d dreamt about a love affair in far-off Budapest
The sort of thing that sugars every pill


I was a teenage armchair Honved fan


I went dans la cuisine in a bilinguistic mood
And Morphy Richards popped up with the goods
I was feeling ‘Hungary’ both this morning and last night
And with an appetite like that you see the woods


I was a teenage armchair Honved fan


Is this the bit where we’re supposed to make guitars collide
And is this the bit where we release all that raw energy
And is this the bit where we go crashing through those barriers
Like what they do in music mags?


I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage, wham bam thank you
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan

Bloody marvellous........a legendary piece of music if the truth be told.  But not one my mate would have appreciated.  We never saw eye to eye when it came to music.....and I'll miss those arguements we were always having.