Once again... Peter Jordan.
Dearest Followers,
Stay close, there are a few blind leaps ahead:
My
eldest is trying out for a new soccer club today. What could be more
international than soccer? So I looked at some of the big songs
associated with past World Cups, but R. Kelly, Shakira, Ricky Martin,
and the Crazy Frog weren't grabbing me. Ah, what we need is a club
song, something local, yet global. My son is half-Thai, so I headed
straight over to Everton, a Premier League club out of Liverpool who are
oddly enough sponsored by Beer Chang, a second-rate Thai beer.
International soccer is a bit like jazz: I would be
a better person if I understood it, but the learning curve is kind of
steep.
The maze of leagues and teams is intensely complex; club songs are not. Club songs are written by drunks to be sung by drunks.
This is one of several songs attributed to Everton's
fans. I'm not sure what the root of the Ku Klux Klan reference is
(Man. U?) nor why the Norwegian flag has Hebrew on it, but thought both
added even more international mystery. So, pop open a 40 oz Beer Chang
and enjoy. (Adjectives follow nouns in Thai and chang is elephant,
therefore the brand-name is "Elephant Beer.")
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