Seasons Fill My Mind and Cover Me

In the ongoing saga that is my newfound obsession with Liverpool FC, the latest chapter was written on Saturday at the JJB Stadium in Wigan, England.

Thanks to the superb efforts of midfielder Yossi Benayoun, the Reds took home a 1-0 away victory over Wigan Athletic. As you can see from the photographic evidence submitted above, Yossi is not going to be knocking on the doorstep of People's 50 Most Beautiful any time this millennium, but the man delivered a game-winning goal in the 75th minute to break Liverpool out of the Premiership lull that they were mired in for the last two matches against Birmingham and Portsmouth.

In yet another installment of reasons why I love English football, I bring you this nugget of gold from the Wikipedia page devoted to Wigan Athletic F.C.

The most popular football chant used by supporters has been "You Are My Sunshine," but recent additions are the Frankie Valli classic "Let's Hang On!" which was representative of the club's record of 1-0 small goal leads, especially in the 2003-04 season. Other notable favourites include: "We Come From Wigan And We Live In Mudhuts, oo-agh-oo-oo-agh,you should be a wig-in-a!" and "Teale Will Tear You Apart Again" - a parody of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" sung mainly when winger Gary Teale (now with Derby County) was playing, although it was first heard some ten years ago at Old Trafford, in ode to Ryan Giggs "Giggs will tear you apart". . Other chants for players include "Zooo!" for former captain Arjan De Zeeuw (now with Coventry City) , and also a chant to the tune of "Baby Give It Up", replacing the titular words with the name of striker Henri Camara. A new and recent chant is to the tune of The Automatic's hit, 'Monster', where the fans sing "What's That Coming Over The Hill, It's Emile Heskey, It's Emile Heskey!!' Another song is "We've won it 2 times, Auto-Windscreens, We've won it 2 times" mimicking Liverpool Won it 5 times song. Fans used to show their support for long-serving, former manager Paul Jewell, with the satirical, "Who Needs Mourinho, We've Got Paul Jewellio!"

I realize that the Red Sox have "Sweet Caroline", the Evil Empire has "New York, New York", and the Rangers have Pat Green's "I Like Texas" after home victories, but as a whole, I think American fanbases are far, far behind our English counterparts in the creativity department. I'm pretty sure I would make every effort to attend more sporting events if I could basically combine the enjoyable parts of Sing Song with watching sports.