Not sure why you've got an issue with saying Kane is better than Henry, or with us singing about Woolwich players being naff - they are our rivals and, with me living in area surrounded by Gooners telling me how great their players are constantly, I don't mind a bit of mockery whatsoever.
However, if it bothers people it's easily changed, lol.
"We love Harry Kane,
As he scores another goal for the Tottenham FC
We love Harry Kane
He's fucked Arsnal and he's fucked Chelsea"
Personally, I quite like the light-hearted banter of "better than Henry", but I can go with either the more fiscally embracing "got for free" or the considerably more hard-core "fuck Woolwich & Chelsea". I'm sure someone can think of something else too, it's a fairly easy rhyme after all.
You just don't get it... the solution is worse than the original!
It's not that it bothers me as such (though it
clearly does!) it just makes no sense to do it... there's no need!
I'm
NOT saying we can't sing anti-songs against Arse or Chelsea (or whoever) ...and obviously, to do so, you have to mention their names! I get that, I really do. ...and i'm all for it!
...honestly, I'm not being some 'pseudo'-new fan who hates the hatred between the clubs... believe me, I'm not... I love the hatred, I fucking hte them with a venomous passion that knows no bounds... (and i'm hardly a new fan)
...I think of it more as this; their club, (Ares/Chelsea etc) ...their players, their fans... are
poison... they're
evil... they represent pretty much every bad/sad/frustrating football-related experience many of us have had in our lives... be it watching them parade a(nother) fucking trophy around, or clinching CL place at our expense (for a myriad of reasons) ...or just the weekly annoyance of
having, (in the past) seen them do well...
...I associate some of those same players in
those songs, who have been at the core of that frustration, with that... and I don't want to 'immortalise' their names by including them in songs about OUR players!
Don't get me wrong, (please don't)... I'm not saying we shouldn't be singing about our hatred of those players/clubs in songs DESIGNED and WORDED about that hatred, but not shoe-horn them into songs that are meant to laud and celebrate
OUR PLAYERS!
...it's almost laughable to think that in years to come, songs about THE CLUB LEGEND THAT
IS HARRY KANE, will always have Thierry Henry's name tagged on the end of it (if your song suggestion ever got going)...
it's bad enough that
Ledley King is always going to be linked (albeit in song) with John fucking Terry!
I
hate the fact that every time we sing about Christian Eriksen, we have to mention fucking Ozil... and now we're expected to do it with Delli Alli too??? no... sorry, i'm not having it!
Especially when he already has his own song, that only mentions
his name! (actually, they are the only two words, so hey!)
Imagine if the original Chivers/Hoddle song (depending on your age) had been worded differently;
HODDLE... HODDLE... HODDLE... HODDLE...
BORN IS THE KING OF WHITE HART LANE...
HODDLE... HODDLE... HODDLE... HODDLE...
AND HE IS BETTER THAN LIAM BRADY!!
...would've been shite wouldn't it?!!
...we never felt the need to do that back in the '70s/'80s (too busy kicking lumps out of them to bother including them in our songs perhaps....?)
I dunno... I almost feel like i'm the only one who has a dislike for this thing... but I genuinely feel strongly about it (and never thought I would... not while there are bigger problems in the world, eh?)
But small battles I suppose...