Every time I see his name it makes me smile. Years ago I was pottering about vaguely listening to Radio 5 live when a Kopite came on claiming they’d invented just about every football chant/song going and how he was fed up the way other clubs nicked “ their” songs. The presenter asked him for an example . “ Well there’s our “ John Arne Riise” song which everybody pinched from us. The presenter asked him to sing it so he went “ John Arne Riise, there’s only one John Arne Riise, John Arne Riise etc etc” .
Cue an incredulous presenter, “ But that’s a song called Guantanamera , it’s been around decades, fans used to sing songs to it in the ‘60s!” . “ Naw, it’s the John Arne Riise song , we sung it first, people just copied us , that’s where you heard it”
“Ok, let’s go to our next caller.......”
I thought the John Arne Riise “song” was set to the tune of “Hey...Hey baby”.....
The daft bugger couldn’t even get the tune right lol