Football and Music

Sticking with some current artists and tunes for this latest addition to the Jukebox.

You may have heard about and you’ve definitely seen photo’s of the WAGs.

WAGs : Wives and girlfriends of footballers.

These WAGs are usually like the archetypal trophy wife. All surface but no feeling. Like one of those cars the boy racers have, attractive to look at but rough as old bollocks underneath.

There are a couple of exceptions, some of them have their own careers and income, such as ÜberWAG Skeletor (Vicky Beckham). But most are happy to just shop and travel to places to watch their blokes play. - Usually from the comfort of the nearest luxury hotel.

Wikipedia has a very detailed page about the WAGs. Including info about variations including:

• Golf: WAGs/WABs (Wives and birdies)
• Cricket: CWAGs (Cricket wife/girlfriend)
• The British Royal Family: RAGs (Royals and Girlfriends) and Mads (mothers and daughters - Fergie & Beatrice)

Other acronyms

• CHAPs: (”celebrities’ husbands and partners”)
• HABs: (”husbands and boyfriends” for the partners of female tennis players at Wimbledon)
• MAGs: (”mothers and girlfriends”, or the singular “MAG” for mother of a WAG (e.g. “Wonder who’s paying for Coleen’s MAG’s shopping?”)
• SADs: (”sons and daughters” of footballers, a term used by the Sunday Times with reference to Bianca Gascoigne, daughter of Paul Gascoigne.)
• SWAGs: (used both for “supporters without a game” (i.e. England fans at a loose end in Germany on days when their team was not playing and, according to the Guardian, “Summit wives and girlfriends” (the partners of World leaders attending the G8 Summit)

AOL Entertainment have created what could be the world’s first league tables of WAGs, where thousands of people have rated them to see which WAGs are the most popular. » LINK (safe for werk if yer bosses don’t mind you looking at pics of birds in bikini’s.)

These people have become easy fodder for the tabloids and are regularly featured being photographed on the beach or shopping.

Finally to the point of this long post:
As well as a couple being in the music industry (Cheryl Cole, Vicky Becks), some of their fellow singers have commentated about the media obsession with the WAGs or even had a long-standing slagging match with each other.

The comment about the newspapers obsession comes from a new up-and-coming singer from Glasgow :

» Amy MacDonald - Footballer’s Wife   [lyrics]

The next one is from the daughter of (Fat Les) Keith Allen and her above linked spat with Girls Aloud singer Cheryl (wife of Ashley) Cole :

» Lily Allen - Cheryl Tweedy   [lyrics]

Edit & Update: Amy Winehouse also mentions about footballer’s wives in the lyrics to her song Fcuk Me Pumps

Extra linkage: Footie365 - WAGs who wear the trousers

It seems that Derek has forgotten about his blog even though he’s got plenty of time on his hands right now. Time he is going to spend, according to entertainment/gossip websites, wearing tight underpants so he can get it on with Skeletor and conceive a girl.
(Do we really need that much information ?)

Until Derek remembers that he has a blog and gets one of his assistants to make something up to post; some related stuff we’ve found:

Gift Grub is a comedy sketch thing originating from Irish radio station Today FM. Usually Gift Grub’s skits are in the form of a song about a famous subject. You might have heard one of their productions - “José and his Amazing Technicolor Overcoat” - in the F & M Jukebox.

Here’s another one of their efforts, to the tune of The Streets song Dry Your Eyes, - Roy Keane phones Beckham after England’s defeat against France in Euro 2004, to console him:

 
[lyrics]

(If you really like it and want to download it then right-click and Save Target/Link As…)

A couple more footie podcasts: The Onion Bag. A very short 9 minute pod and only a Premier League preview posted at the moment. ][ Or if you want to fill your boots there’s one via the US Americans over at ESPN’s Soccernet. With your host and sounding like a posh trainspotter, Jonathan Hyphen-Hyphen has a 56 minute broadcast.

Some septic footie stuff… No not Armored Wankball… the Major League Soccer: Story here about FC Dallas and them maybe getting Denilson in to replace the current coach - one Steve Morrow. (You remember him. Tony Adams lifted him up in celebration and then dropped him, breaking Morrow’s arm.) The problem with putting Denilson in as the new boss, says the report, is that it looks more to be a marketing move rather than a footballing one. ][ Also there are still lots of rumors about that Yallop has been asked to resign or will step down voluntarily very soon. Still hasn’t yet but we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Possibly one of the weirdest songs with a tenious… well more than tenious, the track mentions the team and about supporting them BUT it isn’t specifically about Leeds United the football club. Luke Haines sings about supporting them in the 70’s, but more about what it was like in the 1970’s up there watching Kendo Nagasaki on the wrestling, Jimmy Saville on Jim’ll Fix It and about the Leeds fans taunting the police because they couldn’t catch Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper.

You may or may not have heard of Luke Haines, who was in previous bands The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder. If you read the NME then you will have. He is a an artist who has been around for ages but never quite hit the big time. Always does catchy songs with a cutting message or meaning to them and nearly always mentions a famous subject.
Read his bio on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Haines

This track was released on an EP last March and taken from (a self description ?) “Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop”

Song not available to download because this is a current (2007) release. If you really like this then go and buy it.

Incidentally how are dirtyLeeds getting on in the old 3rd Division ?