I wrote this after the win against Burnley – thinking of Bentaleb, Adebayor, and the African Cup of Nations - as well as Sunderland!
[with apologies to Toto, of course, and Stone who wrote it]
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Down in Africa!

I hear the cheers echoing tonight
But I hear also Nabil Bentaleb is off now, inne?
He's flying on the Africa flight -
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide him to land in Guinea.
I met Adebayor on the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten skills or long-lost appetite
I turned to him as if to say:
"Ade, boy, it's what you used to do!
It's Bentaleb who’s going off to play today, not you -
It’s too late now and sad to see you’re not the star we knew.
He’ll get some games down in Africa -
Gonna take his chance to do the things you used to do.”
[The Mackems cry out in the night,
As they grow fearful, longing for some help to stop us scoring three!
I know that we must keep it tight
As Kane and Eriksen both net one, like they do now, and Walker gets a beauty.

I see Gus Poyet warn his side
Frightened of the team that we've become.]
“It's Bentaleb who’s going off to play today, not you -
It’s too late now and sad to see you’re not the star we knew
He’ll get some games down in Africa -
Gonna take his chance to do the things you used to do -
Ade, boy, it's what you used to do!"
It's Bentaleb who’s going off to play today, not you -
It’s too late now and sad to see you’re not the star we knew
He’ll get some games down in Africa - He’s gonna play down in Africa -He’ll get some games down in Africa - He’s gonna play down in Africa -He’ll get some games down in Africa -
Gonna take his chance to do the things you used to do!”
Prediction: Spurs 3 Sunderland 1
Scorers: Kane, Walker, Eriksen
Cheers, Spurf! 