‘Football Is My Life’ By Shaggy & Leo Aberer – Pies Have Done It, We’ve Actually Discovered The Worst Football Song Ever Recorded (Video)

Chris Wright

19th, February 2019

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You may be labouring under the illusion that you’ve heard the worst football song ever before. Alas, Pies are hear to inform you that that, unfortunately, cannot possibly be the case.

We can say this with great confidence as there is simply no chance that you’ve stumbled across the following obscure, smouldering wreck of a song on your travels. None.

With a great deal of reluctance, we solemnly present to you, the worst football song in existence: “Football Is My Life” by Leo Aberer and Shaggy.

Arberer is an Austrian pop star whose Wikipedia claims that this pale aberration was the “official song of Euro 2012”. It was not. This is not true.

What it actually is is a horrible, weak and hopelessly transparent attempt to cash in written by a man (Aberer) who we instantly suspect doesn’t really like football much at all, let alone allows it to govern his entire life as claimed.

If you’re wondering what Shaggy’s precise involvement is, long term fans will no doubt be glad to learn that it extends to a hastily written, cliche-ridden “rap” plus a few ragga-lite ad-libs thrown in at random intervals.

The usual, then.

Here are those incredible, transcendent lyrics in full…

Shaggy:

(Intro) One heart, one game, one love
(Let’s lose control one time)
One heart, one game, one love
One heart, one game, one love
(Bad man we a footballer)
One heart, one game, one love

Aberer:

(Chorus) Football, football is my life, my life
That’s all I ever wanna play
Football, football is my life, my life
I could do it every single day

(Verse 1) The feeling’s so sensational, so free, so recreational
Hang loose for a while, run with us for another mile
Round and round it goes apparently, up and down incoherently
Let’s feel the flare, put your hands up in the air!

(Chorus)

Shaggy:

(Verse 2) Football to the world, embrace it
From our youth we done have the basics
We love it so we can replace it
From ball park to field see we boots we lace it

One heart, one game, one love
Our sport, well we’re well proud of
Gimme more skills than just push and shove
And enjoy the beauty of…

Aberer:

(Chorus) Football, football is my life, my life
That’s all I ever wanna play
Football, football is my life, my life
I could do it every single day

Oh oh, I wanna lose control
(Lose control one time)
I feel it in my soul
Oh oh, I wanna give it all
And all for one goal.

(Chorus)

With my technique and my dribbling, I control the ball
I know there will be rise and fall
But football will be always my game

Obviously, we shouldn’t be overly harsh on Aberer as, judging by his facial expressions throughout the video, the man obviously suffers from some horribly debilitating gastro-intestinal discomfort.

Still, for unleashing this “song” on the world, we decree that he deserves to be pelted with unripe vegetables for the rest of his living days.

As for Shaggy, when the times comes, it’s only right we let this image and everlasting epitaph appear on his headstone as a true mark of the man…

“Bad man, we a footballer” – Orville Richard ‘Shaggy’ Burrell, 2012

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2 Comments

  1. Bismarck Von Heidelschnüffer says:

    Sorry, but… The anfield rap is still unbeaten

  2. Anonymous says:

    Proud to say I made it a full 40 seconds into that clip

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