Two unique great loves

Totò told us a long time ago using his “’A livella”, where Lord Marquis of Rovigo and Belluno boasted hero reputation with his rich grave covered by a crown, candles and small lamps. But place side by side there was Esposito Gennaro, binman: the death smoothes out. There is a kind of satisfying knowledge in the idea on how some guide concepts, some occurrences, make us less to a basic level, a both beginning and ending patch. Death is something like that. It is that, no other way, You are dead, both if you are Gennaro the binman or the marquis. But not satisfying at all thinking how the death could be the only equality moment. Fortunately it doesn’t.

The one who is playing on the grass field, the one who makes the move, He gets every single of those stuff as for Gennaro the binman as for the marquis, of course. And of course, until the end of the times, Gennaro the binman and marquis screams are important to break the holy silence before the goal at the same level. The death as the soccer, a fitting euphemism, an irreverent joke to heal the ugly ending concept. But choosing one of those, something that makes us the same, we choose football.

Elton John – Watford – Crocodile Rock

Who would have told about a Pennac’s novel duo as Mazzarri and Elton John? Neither in the unhealthy dreams could be possible something like this. But it may be so interesting and social interaction studies worthy looking at the sharing ideas between Italian manager and the singer. And yet Elton John allowed a first Premier League look for the “hornets”, before he became a simple reference point, a kind of first supporter. In the beginning, before Watford love, sir Elton loved to dress huge woman shoes and parrot dress, maybe thinking about Donald Duck in the future. In 1973 He sang a song that showed how Jerry Lee Lewis was not the only one who could make great Rock&Roll with the piano, explaining a basic idea: “I remember when rock was young”. In young time everything is better.

Katy Perry – West Ham – I kissed a girl

We found a lot of famous “Hammers” supporters, in the end We had to choose between Katy Perry and Alfred Hitchcock. And we chose the first one thinking not to her role in the music, but just Perry view in West Ham shorts and bustier had a crushing persuasive strength. And so thrilling and naïve is the verse where she sings “I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it”: Katy, please.

Massive Attack – Napoli – Angel

Not so many stuff are so satisfying as being defined music genre inventors. But Robert “3D” Del Naja and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall have not involved faces about those circumstances, they don’t care about being called “trip hop” funders; and if you can put in the same song – as they make in “Angel”, where Marshall plays like actor as well – an hip hop beat, a psychedelic rock arpeggio, a surrounding synth, a voice that repeats as an hypnotic mantra the words “love you” and even the car door open noise, probably You would be bothered if someone puts you in a single type, as founder as well. Then Guy Ritchie used that song in his super-cult “Snatch”, how could not we fall in love? Del Naja comes from a Neapolitan family, but He especially is a careful observer about soccer and supporting: they are the people’ soul.

Johnny Rotten – Arsenal – Rise

Sid Vicious was so bad as bass player and we could not choose a Sex Pistols’ song, so we took a John Lyndon second band’ song, the Public Image LTD; but we could be wrong or we could be right, as the song says. This video song is the Johnny Rotten symbol how He joked on us since he came out in the music scene – he plays the half-mad man having some emblematic clarity of mind moments, he dresses a too much big jacket that looks like a straightjacket. He definitely made fun of public, revealed by the circumstance He survived after one of the most extreme kind of lifestyle: if you are deeply punk You will not live until sixty, but used up before. This song looks like a Cure B-side song, something Robert Smithputd away due to a lack of flute. Rotten – with the passage of time he looks like to Maurizio Arcieri – has always been a great Gunners supporter, one of those who really wants a stand up stadium and no seated places. Is he wrong?

Serge Pizzorno – Genoa – Goodbye Kiss

Pizzorno looks like an humble George Best, a paradox if we think him as the soloist guitar, and mind, in a rock group. But if we take a look to a Sergio’s image going inside Genoa’ stadium, dressing Genoa’s shirt, we just can see a gentle and soft picture who is greeting the oldest Italian supporters. It’s irrelevant if Kasabian were born in Leicester, where a soccer miracle occurred recently, because Pizzorno had a Zio Gianni who taught him Genoa’s passion when he was just 8 years old. An thinking about all these lightness and romanticism we could not choose an ordinary psychedelic rock song, something Beatles made still in seventies, and something about Vlad the impaler as well. We love romantic ballads, where the singer makes heart symbol with his hands. Those songs are talking about unavoidable love, “it all kicked off, I had no choice”, the same love we feel about football.