SCOTLAND FAN WITH EUROS VERSION OF HAND OF GOD SONG INSISTS IT IS NOT DIG AT ENGLAND
A Scotland fan has gone viral with a new unofficial anthem for the Tartan Army in the Euros but has insisted that his song choice isn’t a dig at England.
Nick Morgan, creator of No Scotland No Party, sings his hit to the tune of a popular Argentine song about sporting icon Diego Maradona scoring one of the winning goals against England in the 1986 World Cup match.
Asked on Sky Breakfast whether it was a dig at England for Maradona’s controversial handball goal, he said: “It genuinely wasn’t no, even before I knew the name of the song I thought it was so catchy, you think you already know it even if you don’t because it’s such a memorable melody.
“So it was just by luck that when I googled the name and saw it was the Hand of God.”
Morgan, who created the catchy tune to support the Scottish team in their game against Germany tonight, said that the response to his song has been “surreal”.
Lyrics of the viral hit include “We know we ain’t no Argentina,” “Steve Clarke’s tartan army” and “Even if we don’t win, we’ll boogie on in Berlin”.
It comes as Scotland prepares to face off against Germany in tonight’s kick-off European Championship game in Munich on Friday evening.
It marks the national team’s first overseas tournament since 1998, as they hope to become the first squad in the country’s history to progress from the group stages of a major championship.
Scots have descended on the city ahead of the match, with the British Consulate estimating that as many as 200,000 Scotland fans have made the journey for the group stages.
Scenes of tartan-clad revellers cheering on the streets and drinking beer at the famous Marienplatz central square were already circulating online on Friday morning as the Tartan Army prepared for their biggest party in 26 years.
The number of Scotland fans descending on Munich for the tournament’s opener dwarfs the 40,000 England fans expected to arrive in Gelsenkirchen in northern Germany for the Three Lions’ first match against Serbia on Sunday.
Morgan’s song has also attracted attention from Argentina for the choice of tune, playing on Argentinian TV and radio stations and gaining over four million views on TikTok.
“It’s just crazy to think I’ve just been sitting in my bedroom deciding to work on a song on a guitar and then a few months down the line it’s on Argentinian TV, news programmes, big TV programmes, [I’m getting] friend requests, asking if I can come over [to Argentina]. It doesn’t feel real,” he said.
The musician, who works as a postman by day, said he originally got the idea after seeing a tribute video of Maradona after he died in 2020.
He told BBC Scotland: “I found this clip of Maradona singing in a bar and his whole family is there, and friends, and there’s a rock band behind him.
“There was just this song... and as soon as I heard it, I fell in love with it, it’s just so catchy.”
The original song, called “La mano de Dios” or “The Hand of God,” was released in 2001 by the late Argentine singer Rodrigo Bueno as a tribute to the footballer.
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