Some of you have been using our Ask Me Anything form on Arsenal to send in queries.
One fan asked what the words of the Eberechi Eze song were and if we could ask a pundit what it’s like to hear your name sung.
We’ve not explained the Eze song as it has a swear word too many (you’ll find the words using a basic search engine) but we did ask former Premier League striker Chris Sutton about Eze and what it’s like to have your name sung.
Here is what he had to say:
It’s really nice for Eze to have that connection. His story is lovely, as an Arsenal fan himself. To be playing for his boyhood club and the journey he has been on to get there, after the knockbacks he had as a young player, including by Arsenal, is amazing.
He’s done the hard yards and I have got so much admiration for him, to be back at his boyhood club and score a hat-trick against their biggest rivals in the north London derby. What a start, and he’s a brilliant player – he deserves all of this.
It must be a lovely feeling for him, to hear his name sung. You imagine him as a young lad and that rejection from the club he loved, if you’d had said to him then that in a few years’ time that you’d be back at Arsenal and the fans would be singing songs about you, he wouldn’t have believed it.
It is a special feeling, to have that attachment. The Norwich fans used to sing “Super Chrissie Sutton” and as a young player and a local lad that meant a heck of a lot.
The Blackburn fans used to sing “Sutton for England”, which was nice. I only got one cap, but at least they supported me. Being serious, it’s just nice to know people appreciate you. It’s not like you feel like you have cracked anything, but you get a nice feeling and that connection with the fans never does anyone any harm.
Like I say, though, you have to take the good with the bad.
When I was at Chelsea, they used to sing not such a nice song about me and that was the home fans. Thankfully these days I can laugh as I say that.
And of course there were plenty of songs sung about me by opposition fans, none of which my family enjoyed!
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