Sing at the beginning, you never sing at the beginning

Apparently in France there is an unease that the French players (with the obvious exception of Lillian Thuram) don't sing the national anthem. I don't know if Thierry Henry and co. share Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher's socialist leanings and abstain for that reason but Nathalie and myself decided that when the camera pans along the line-ups and a player is not singing we will do their singing for them.

Of course we don't actually sing their anthem, rather we do a sort of jazz, scat, Cleo Laine stylie version that consists of doo-wops, bebops and scooby doobees. Ah, the pleasures of singing La Marseillaise have never been so great.



Tonight Matthew, I shall be singing Inno di Mameli -
the Italian National Anthem.