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Chant Laureate Found....

Following our item of last November, a "lyrical soccer fan" has been decreed to be Britain's first "Chant Laureate". Reuters reports that one Jonny Hurst "penned a chant for the terraces of neighboring club Aston Villa to beat 1,500 other hopefuls" and win the prize.

"Jonny's chants have the wit and energy to make them eminently chantable, but they also have a distinctive ingenuity. He's a real find," said the Queen's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, who chaired the judging panel. His chant, to the tune of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana," celebrated Aston Villa's signing of Colombian striker Juan Pablo Angel. It included such lines as: "Just hear the Villa roar/ with each Juan Pablo score/ We've got him on a four-year deal/ but we still want more."

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