Adios laa

Now I don’t normally inflict my footballing prejudices on this blog - I’ve always been of the opinion that I’ve made my own bed and therefore I should lie in it and suffer more or less alone (M&N being obvious and unfortunate exceptions to that rule). And, generally, you won’t find me spreading the memes of our corporate masters around the net.

But I’m going to make an exception for this because:

1. I think I’ve actually fallen in love with Fernando Torres,

2. The “Fernando Torres” chant to “Johnny Comes Marching Home” has been the best addition to the Liverpool songbook since Fields of Athenry (though the new Maschereno to the tune of “Seven Nation Army” comes close too),

and 3. This is a fantastically funny and brilliantly observed little advert (with Hungarian subtitles) that won’t get shown in this country and doesn’t do the hard sell.

The two old blokes coming out of the chippie with an “Adios laa” and the lad saying “Gracias mate” crack me up every time.

And for those who don’t know, the translation of the chant being sung in Spanish is:

“His armband proved he was a red, Torres! Torres!
You’ll never walk alone, it said, Torres! Torres!
We brought the lad from sunny Spain,
He gets the ball and he scores again,
Fernando Torres, Liverpool’s number nine”

Nanananana… and bounce maniacally ad nauseum

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