♫ Allez, allez, allez
♫ Allez, allez, allez. ♫
HE TUNES GUITAR
- You all right, mate? - How are you?
I'm good, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
- How's things? - Yeah, good.
Am I talking too fast?
Yeah, a little bit!
Sorry, sorry.
No, no, no problem.
Do you know anything about me or what I do?
I saw some videos.
Yeah, Allez, Allez, Allez.
You made here?
Yeah, in here, on this stage.
But it looks a lot bigger on the video.
This place, what do you make here, with friends?
Yeah, basically, we have nights for Liverpool fans to come down after the game.
Not every game, just big games.
Can I come after a game?
You can come wherever you want!
♫ Bob Paisley and Bill Shankly... ♫
- It's here? - Yeah, it's here.
- It seems bigger, no? - On that stage.
JAMIE: Yeah, it looks it.
♫ And we come from Liverpool
And you know this bit, don't you?
♫ Allez, allez, allez... ♫
Yes, lad, is right.
Nice, very nice.
This was the first time that you played...?
Second time. We got beat that day, against Manchester United away.
And then we came down here. Shall we go and play some music?
Yeah, of course. Two guitars, yeah.
Well, I'll let you have the good guitar. This is my best guitar, so...
No, you take it.
No, you take it, because you've got safer hands than me!
What songs have you been playing at the minute anyway?
Now, in the moment, Baby Shark is the best one, my daughter,
always when I come home to play with her, she takes my guitar,
gives it to me, I start to play and she starts to dance.
- Do you know the actions? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go on.
♫ Daddy shark... ♫
My wife bought a little guitar for her.
Now she is through the house, walking, playing. We play together.
- Take it off you. - Really nice, yeah.
Because when my wife was pregnant, I was always playing guitar on her side,
so I think maybe...
Yeah, that's brilliant, that.
And I believe you're having a little boy, aren't you?
- Yeah. - Congratulations, mate.
Thank you, cheers.
One thing I've been meaning to ask you as well, when new players come to Liverpool,
as part of their initiation, they have to sing a song.
Didn't you come in with a guitar and play and sing?
- Yeah. - What song did you play?
I played a Brazilian song, but we had the karaoke.
Karaoke, yeah.
- And in the karaoke I sang Wonderwall. - Nice!
No, not Wonderwall, it was an Oasis song...
Don't Look Back In Anger.
- Yeah. - That's the other favourite one.
What sort of music do you listen to?
I listen a lot to sertanejo, it's like country music, in Brazil it's very popular.
Allez, Allez, Allez!
- Every game I listen to this. - You're trying to impress me now.
- No, it's very nice. - Thank you very much.
Well, hopefully we'll have a song about you soon. What do you think?
Yeah, it would be nice, but I need to take some time, I know how the thing works.
I'll try to give you motivation for...
To be honest, that save against Napoli, think that's all the motivation anyone needs, mate.
I would like if you would write a song about this year.
About this year? About you in this year or the whole team?
No, the team.
What about something like...
You already did?
Not me personally, but something we've been working on. So what about...
♫ Alisson's our goalie, the best there is around
♫ And Robbo is the greatest that Jürgen ever found
♫ Virgil is our favourite, a wizard of the game...
♫ And here's the mighty Salah to do it once again
♫ We love you, Liverpool, we do
♫ Ohhh, Liverpool, we love you. ♫
Something like that?
Fantastic, mate, fantastic.
Why don't you play something for me, something that you like?
I'm not professional, you know.
No, neither am I.
- I'll play a Brazilian song. - Yeah, man.
Sertanejo for you now.
HE SINGS IN PORTUGUESE
Nice, that, man!
Nice chords in that.
It's good to dance to, to cry, because it's a sad song.
It's like that, innit?
- Something similar? - Yeah, something similar.
You can feel it.
This song is about a guy who lost his girl, he saw her with another guy.
I bet that wouldn't happen to you, would it!
Not with a beard like that, mate.
♫ Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-nah
♫ Divock Origi
♫ Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-nah
♫ Divock Origi
♫ Saturday night and I like the way you move
♫ Divock Origi. ♫
Tell me about the events that you do with the fans here.
There's an event called BOSS Nights, and I don't know if you know,
"boss" is like Scouse language for...
How do you say it?
- Boss. - Boss.
So it started about 8 to 10 years ago,
maybe 50 people coming down after the match to listen to a bit of music,
it's just got bigger and bigger over the years, so now we do it in here at District.
The atmosphere's great in here. I mean, I don't do it full time,
I'm an electrician 9-5, I'm a builder.
Ah, you're not a professional singer?
No. Well, hopefully one day.
I'm gonna release my own music in the next two to three months.
So...if you want to play some guitar on that, let me know and we'll get in the studio.
Maybe we can go to Brazil, do you reckon?
I'll bring you!
I'll hold you to that, you know?
Do you maybe wanna play a Liverpool song?
Yeah, let's go.
- Allez, Allez, Allez. - Come on.
So it's C with a G.
And then we go to A minor.
Then to F.
To G.
♫ We've conquered all of Europe
♫ We're never gonna stop
♫ From Paris down to Turkey
♫ We've won the..lot
♫ Bob Paisley and Bill Shankly
♫ The fields of Anfield Road
♫ We are loyal supporters
♫ And we come from Liverpool... ♫
Little bit fast.
♫ Allez, allez, allez
♫ We've conquered all of Europe
♫ We're never gonna stop
♫ From Paris down to Turkey
♫ We've won the...lot
♫ Bob Paisley and Bill Shankly
♫ The fields of Anfield Road
♫ We are loyal supporters
♫ And we come from Liverpool
♫ Allez, allez, allez
♫ Allez, allez, allez... ♫
And then we normally end it with, like... "Up the...Reds"
Is right.
Cool, that, lad.
♫ I tell them what the smile on my face meant
♫ My heart going "boom, boom, boom"
♫ So, I said, "You can come keep my things they've come to take me home"
CROWD: ♫ Li-ver-pool, Li-ver-pool, la-la-la
♫ Li-ver-pool, Li-ver-pool... ♫
Why are you a Liverpool fan?
As you know, same in your country,
it's things that have been passed down through the families.
You look at the videos of years ago
and the great nights Liverpool Football Club have had,
and you just think, "That's something I want to be part of", you know?
I've been following Liverpool home and away and in Europe
since I was old enough to pay for it myself,
so since I started work, maybe eight years now.
You come to every game now?
Yeah, away, all the time.
So if there's ever a seat on the coach, let me know!
This is the same in our country,
you take the tradition of the same team as your daddy, your mummy, it's nice.
My team is Internacional, and Gremio is...
Oh, yeah, Lucas played for Gremio, didn't he?
- Lucas, yeah. - It's very passionate over there.
The taxi drivers, you say, "Who'd you support?"
"Flamengo!" You know, very...
- The supporters are crazy. - Yeah, very crazy.
So obviously, Roma, in Italy, the fans are very passionate, aren't they?
How different was it for you, obviously last season,
being at Anfield, on the opposition team?
It was difficult playing against Liverpool, the quality of the team is amazing,
and then the 12th player, outside the pitch, that is the supporters.
Last year I can remember the semi-finals.
Yeah.
They played against, against us...
It was a difficult, the atmosphere was incredible.
I like to play with the supporters from the other team shouting, talking to me...
Yeah, that gives you an incentive then to keep the ball out of the goal.
But here was something different.
♫ Alllll round the fields of Anfield Road
♫ Where once we watched King Kenny play... ♫
♫ Allez, allez, allez
♫ Allez, allez, allez... ♫
♫ Mo Salah! Mo Salah! Mo Salah! Running down the wing... ♫
After seeing that, when you came to Liverpool, obviously in the summer,
was that something you were looking forward to?
When I signed, when I wanted to come here and I knew about the interest of Liverpool,
yeah, for sure.
We players, we search for a team who wants you,
a team with quality, with a good manager,
and with great supporters, and I think here at Liverpool
we have maybe the biggest supporters in the world.
If we carry on with this title charge and we keep going the way it is,
you'll experience something like no-one has experienced probably in 20, 30 years.
Isn't that right, Platty?
I'm scared.
We are excited about this and very focused,
we are doing this for the supporters, for the manager,
for us and for everyone inside the project.
This team is different.
Yeah, is there a feeling you've got with this team
that you've maybe never had with anyone else?
Yeah, I think we can do something special here,
but we need to keep our feet on the ground and keep working, working, working.
You've got a big game coming up in Europe against Bayern Munich,
do you think the fans can play a big part in, not only that game, but the next few games?
Yeah, I think the supporters are a great part of this team,
they cannot go to the pitch and play, but...
They all want to.
They can do something to move us, to charge us,
so we can do something more on the pitch.
That's brilliant. How long have you been speaking English, by the way?
Because your English is very good.
I always watched movies in English with subtitles,
music in English, so it's not too difficult for me, study a little bit,
talking every day, practising.
Do you find it harder speaking to someone maybe from Liverpool
than someone from somewhere else in England?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
But if you speak slowly, I can understand.
You've done very well with me anyway.
The Scouse.
Scouse, that's it, is right.
But what do the players think about their songs?
Has Van Dijk mentioned anything about his song to you?
So it goes...
♫ He's our centre-half
♫ He's our No. 4
♫ Watch him defend...
♫ And we watch him score
♫ He'll pass the ball
♫ Calm as you like
♫ He's Virgil van Dijk
♫ He's our centre-half
♫ He's our No. 4
♫ Watch him defend
♫ And we watch him score
♫ He'll pass the ball
♫ Calm as you like
♫ He's Virgil van Dijk
♫ He's Virgil van Dijk. ♫
Maybe next year we'll have one for you.
Very nice, we have time. Long contract!
Yeah, make sure you honour that contract as well or I'll be coming to see you.
♫ There's something that the Kop wants you to know
♫ The best in the world, his name's Bobby Firmino
♫ Our No. 9
♫ Give him the ball and he'll score every time
♫ Si senor
♫ Give the ball to Bobby and he will score
♫ There's something that the Kop wants you to know
♫ The best in the world, his name's Bobby Firmino
♫ Our No. 9
♫ Give him the ball and he'll score every time
♫ Si senor
♫ Give the ball to Bobby and he will score... ♫
"Si senor", huh?
I know.
Portuguese is "sim".
S-I-M, is that right?
Yeah, I'm sorry about that, that's...
No...
Believe me, I didn't make the song up.
I know you've got to go to training and stuff,
I've got to go back to work as well as it happens.
- And it's freezing here. - Yeah!
But, you know, maybe we have a big victory towards the end of the season,
would you fancy getting up and playing?
If we win, mate...
Yeah, if we win, we'd get you in here, play a couple of songs.
Let's make this deal now.
If we win, I come.
Yeah, definitely, 100 per cent.
Sound. Yous have all got that.
There's enough witnesses here so you can't back down on that.
But, no, seriously, thanks very much for your time.
You've been brilliant, mate.
- Nice to meet you. - Cheers.
Done.
We all good?
APPLAUSE
Happy days. Thanks again, man.