Red Devils have best tune
Friday 2 May 2008
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Carlos Tévez gives us a quick burst of his latest ditty (©Getty Images)
So Manchester United FC are in the UEFA Champions League final for the first time in nine years. In England, reaching the FA Cup final is usually celebrated by the team recording a hit song, ideally with a duo of pub rockers, but since United missed out on that showpiece, Carlos Tévez has decided to mark their European success insread.
Love song
Tévez, as well as plying his trade in the United attack, is also a member of Argentinian cumbia villera folk band Piola Vago. And their next song is to be called Mi Amorosa Aventura (My Love Affair), dedicated to the Rojos Diablos, as they say in Buenos Aires. A source said: "He has fallen deeply in love with Manchester United, the players, everything. He is full of emotion for the way he has been taken into their hearts. He can't believe it when he hears United fans chant 'Argentina' – especially with the history between the two countries. He wants to put it all into words. He is in a band with his brother Diego and they are very popular back home. He will record the song when he returns in the summer."
Noel's Masterplan
Across town at Manchester City FC, the musical talent is collected in the stands, most notably in the person of Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher. However, the former Inspiral Carpets roadie is not quite full of Tévez-style ardour right now due to the precarious position of manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. Reports in England suggest City owner Thaksin Shinawatra is ready to end the Swedish coach's year-long reign, to the horror of Gallagher, who spoke out on BBC radio. "I think it's a bit of a joke to be honest," Gallagher stormed. "It's ludicrous. To get rid of him after the best season we've had as long as I can remember is just ridiculous. Eriksson has given the City fans a lot of pride. He's a graceful dignified man. I'd be amazed and equally appalled if I met a City fan who thought getting rid of Eriksson was a good thing. We all love him up there. Shinawatra's living in cloud cuckoo land. [If I saw Sven today] I'd give him a big kiss and I'd say: 'You know what, you take him to the cleaners.'"
Defence attack
If you are reading this in the Spanish ministry of defence in Madrid, we advise you to note the link and log in at home, lest you incur the wrath of your new chief, Carme Chacon. Appointed as minister of defence in José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's recently-appointed female-heavy cabinet, Chacon has issued a ban on departmental staff looking at sport and leisure websites in office hours, particularly those of dailies AS and Marca. But unions are up in arms, and a football-based conspiracy theory has reared its head. "Why ban the Madrid-based dailies AS and Marca and not the gay magazine Zero or the Catalan sports dailies Sport or El Mundo Deportivo?" asked a regional commentator in the Independent newspaper. Francisco Suarez Alamo added in Canarias7: "Could it be because soldiers don't support Barça? Or because the minister, Carme Chacon, is Catalan? Surely not." Still, one blogger wrote: "The ban should apply to all employees paid out of public funds who access the football-gossip, tit-and-bum yellow press, our national opium."
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