NFR - RIP Manolo Escobar

[The Equalizer]

You may not know the name, but without this man:



we would not have had this:

http://youtu.be/FBQndtssTcY

RIP Manolo - the singer of Y Viva Espana.

[The Equalizer]

For some reason it's not allowing the video to embed, but it's the video of this:

[Holders]

Always a dreadful song!

[LBNo11]

...it may have been an awful song, but in 1975, as I walked along the North End Road, and down the side street of Fulham and Putney - bedecked with Fulham favours and could hear the tune blaring out from the shops and the streets I felt nothing but overwhelming pride for the team I supported..!

[The Equalizer]

...it may have been an awful song, but in 1975, as I walked along the North End Road, and down the side street of Fulham and Putney - bedecked with Fulham favours and could hear the tune blaring out from the shops and the streets I felt nothing but overwhelming pride for the team I supported..!

:plus one:

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[Holders]

I felt pride for all the decorations and the atmosphere but it's really a shame someone couldn't have come up with a better song than that.

It all started when C*****a were playing Leeds in 1970, I think it was, when some moron composed "blue is the colour" as they didn't really have a song. Then, in 1971, one of the tabloids thought that Arsenal should have a song to counter Liverpool's. That gave rise to the equally-hideous "good old Arsenal".

Viva el Fulham came about in a similar way because someone (can't remember who) thought that we needed a song to counter the bubbles.

All fabricated and all pretty awful IMHO. I was just embarrassed for Fulham that our support was deemed so poor that someone had to take it upon themselves to write a song for us based on the dreadful pleb-fest anthem to Benidorm!

[The Equalizer]

I felt pride for all the decorations and the atmosphere but it's really a shame someone couldn't have come up with a better song than that.

It all started when C*****a were playing Leeds in 1970, I think it was, when some moron composed "blue is the colour" as they didn't really have a song. Then, in 1971, one of the tabloids thought that Arsenal should have a song to counter Liverpool's. That gave rise to the equally-hideous "good old Arsenal".

Viva el Fulham came about in a similar way because someone (can't remember who) thought that we needed a song to counter the bubbles.

All fabricated and all pretty awful IMHO. I was just embarrassed for Fulham that our support was deemed so poor that someone had to take it upon themselves to write a song for us based on the dreadful pleb-fest anthem to Benidorm!

To be fair mate, they weren't going to get Jimmy Page and Robert Plant to do it were they?

[LBNo11]

...if memory serves, "Good Ole Arsenal" was written by our own Jimmy Hill. Re Viva El Fulham Tony Rees  penned it being a Fulham fan and because it was the tune to a recent popular hit Y Viva Espana....