Stud Marks: Putting life in League One into song
AS WALSALL’S travelling fans discovered, Oldham’s dilapidated Boundary Park is on the grisly of bleak.
Uninspiring, as has been much of the football produced by the relegation-threatened Latics this season. But one Oldham loyalist has been struck by inspiration.
“Accrington Blue” has set his frustration with Latics life to music.
To Queen’s classic “Bohemian Rhapsody”, no less, with a strident message to the “Three Amigos” (club owners Simon Corney, Simon Blitz and Daniel Gazal.
All together now:
“Is this the real strife?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a downslide?
Heading straight into history
Open your eyes
Amigos, you need to see
We¹re just your poor fans
We need your sympathy
Because we¹re feeling low, very low
Never high, always low
Any way the wind blows
Straight from off the car park, into me, into me.”
There’s a lot more as Accrington Blue turns his lyrical artillery towards manager Dave Penney.
“I see a team of Huddersfield reserves
Dave Penney, Dave Penney have you really got a clue mate?
Colbeck, Brill and Furman, very, very frightening.
Three Amigos, Three Amigos, Three Amigos, Three Amigos, Three Amigos let him go!
Let him go-o-o-o!
I¹m just a poor fan, 20 quid’s too much for me
We are just poor fans, 20 quid’s to much for us
Spare us this life of mediocrity.”
Strangely, Oldham did not play “Bohemian Rhapsody” before or at half-time during Saturday’s match!
This article is taken from Stud Marks, a weekly sideways look at football in the Midlands
