Arsène Wenger names a football loser’s songs
mainThe long-serving Arsenal manager appeared on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs.
Two of his eight tracks were about losers.
Full list here.
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Spurs fan, are you, Sir Norman? 🙂
Amusing association.
His selections show that he like songs about life, hope and feelings. I do too.
There is a third track about a loser on Wenger’s list, hidden in plain sight: Sinatra’s ‘My Way’, if one considers its French original, « Comme d’habitude », by Claude François, co-written with Gilles Thibaut and Jacques Revaux in 1967.
Paul Anka adopted and adapted it in 1968, then proposed it to Frank Sinatra in 1969. The rest is history.
But the tone and outlook of the French original is one of quiet resignation and subdued despair, not of retrospective triumphs.
Here is a comparison:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tbxc
No Debussy (“Jeux”)? No Honegger (“Rugby”)?