🎙️ Peter Doherty : amour du foot populaire, passion des clubs authentiques et soutien au HAC

Artiste britannique et supporter passionné, Pete Doherty se confie sur son amour pour le football populaire, sa passion pour les clubs authentiques et son soutien au HAC le plus british des clubs Français.

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Football is life, huh? Football is life. I love I love football. I uh I love the game. I love a lot of the the culture around. I love the history of the sport and it’s been a big part of my life. It was a huge it was a huge part of my my childhood, you know. But I think I think a love for football is a love that never never really dies, you know. can’t even pass uh even if I see kids playing football in the street you know I have to watch you know I love I love it as a sport not just as a you know a professional you know spectacle I love as a sport it’s like a great equalizer you know you don’t need anything you don’t need any equipment you just need a ball and some people and I was fanatical as a kid my earliest memories really of playing football like a lot of people probably, you know, playing football in the street, playing football at school, playing football with my dad in particular, watching him play. He used to play for the army and just football football, you know, like a lot of boys, like a lot of children, just obsessed with football for a long time. Probably till the age of 14, 15, I I played football or watched football. And then uh I suppose when I discovered when I discovered rock rock rock and roll and and and music guitar music I became less also I realized at the age of 14 15 I wasn’t ever going to be a professional footballer which is you know which was my dream up to a certain age and then I got to 14 15 and um I wasn’t really fast enough you know I think I had skill and I understood the game but I wasn’t fast or aggressive enough, you know, to for the next the next the next level. Yeah, I scored quite, you know, played for the school team and for the local team. I scored a few goals. Yeah, I was quite good in the air. I was quite tall, you know, so a few diving headers, you know, and I I was a goalkeeper for a lot of the time as well. I used to enjoy that playing in goal. Yeah, you don’t need to be it’s not so much about the speed then, you know, you can just uh rely on your skill more. So I used to enjoy playing golf. I was a bit lazy. I think you know that’s what my dad always said. I was lazy and I lack commitment and aggression to make it as a footballer and cuz he played semi-professional football you know. So he had he had quite high standards. My mother is from a very particular place in the footballing world. My mom is from a place called Anfield in Liverpool you know. So whenever we used to visit my grandmother in Anfield, all the cousins, all the family there were all either Liverpool or Everton fans. And we’d go inside the stadium when it was empty, you know, in the summer and and play football on the on the empty on the empty cop. And so like the mythology and the passion and the history of of Liverpool was it was in my blood. But my passion for QPR is because it was my dad’s team. So even though my mom was in Liverpool, my dad’s from a place called Paddington near Shepherd’s Bush in West London, which is where QPR is. And he’s he’d been a QPR fan all his life in the the glory days, you know, 1967 when there as a third division South team, they won the League Cup at Wembley and and then made it to the top flight for the first time. And so basically I had a choice between Liverpool and QPR. And I chose QPR at about the age of 11 or 12. And I’ve never regretted that decision obviously. Yeah. Right. But there’s two clubs as well steeped in very much steeped in the local communities and the workingass areas that they’re from. And I was always very interested in that, you know, the roots of football, how football clubs started out as factory teams, you know, or or army teams, you know, they were very very much rooted in the the working class areas that they’re from, you know, and I I although I started getting interested in LA because of Felix and Jojo and, you know, all my wife’s family taking me to the games, I also felt a sort of similarity between Laahav and QPR, the size of the club and the passion of the fans, you know, I felt immediately at home there and then also like seeing the Union Jacks around the stadium was quite curious. I didn’t know about the history about the two Englishmen who started the club. I didn’t know that at first, but I was always curious about how they see the English flags and how they had this song, you know, the song um to the melody of God Save the King, you know, that that the LA fans sing, you know, about the premier, you know, to the tune to the melody of Yeah. So s was like oo it just got me there and it’s quite curious about these two guys that came to La engineers you know in the industrialization of of the city created an athletics club it was a very obviously France wasn’t a a British colony by any stretch but it was the kind of thing that the English did all over the world you know cuz football was uh football was made in England like the LA kit is made in England now and uh and it’s coming home one day. Yeah. What was really beautiful as well was that Billy May, our daughter who is Vermont, she was born in Monte Villia Hospital and she was born the night before Laav went back up to Ligan and I mean Billy May as well has been now she’s been to like 15 16 LA games easily you know so I feel I feel like it’s something that we’re yeah there’s no pressure on the child but I’d love her one day to play for LAV ladies or QPR ladies. You know, obviously a granddad wants her to be a lawyer or a doctor, but it’d be great if she could play for Lav or or QPR or England or France. I don’t mind. But yeah, you can’t it’s that love of football that I think if it’s in you, you you long for it to be in your in your children as well, you know, and I think it’s it it ties people together. It ties, you know, I can’t think of many things that me and my dad did together really apart from we go to football together and that was Yeah, that was the one major, you know, thing we did together cuz he was always working really, you know. So, how would I describe the vibe at Sin? It’s strong. The vibe is strong. The vibe is on, you know. I the the fans are really passionate. there aren’t that it’s I can’t think of that many clubs where the relationship as well between the players and the fans is so palpable you know you can really feel it and it’s really interesting you know in moments of crisis you know like when the fans are attacking other fans or the manager whatever the players actually go and and speak to them and they discuss it it’s really intriguing but no I feel the passion and that’s what that’s part of what attract s me to I think you know like to cuz I really miss I I do miss 10 more monk going to QPR games and I go occasionally but it’s not really possible you know cuz it is possible but you know with the baby and the dogs did I did take Billy M to one QPR game quite recently we went to see QPR home to Preston but she slept the whole game so I love it. I go I love Lahav, you know, with all its like all its gritty industrial realism, but the people of Laav can be quite they’re quite tough people. You know, they don’t show emotion and too much, but in the stadium, that’s where you see the emotion of the town. You know, they just let it all out, all the passion, and you know, there’s there’s a passionate support for the team. Um, yeah, I love that. Yeah. And there’s a similar element to QPR as well. It’s not like to but that sense of, you know, there was some some glories in the past that, you know, a few generations ago that no one quite quite remembers, but you know, you see the photos and you hear the stories, but there’s this longing for, you know, it’s the dream. It’s like what it is for 99% of football fans or in France 99.999% of the other teams. You know, there’s this dream that one day. I mean, I’d love to see Laave in Europe. That would be I’d love to see QPR in Europe, but probably more likely to see Lahav in Europe. That’d be great, you know. Yeah. you know, if they ever qualified for the UEFA league or, God forbid, the Champions League, you know, that would be, you know, to see Laav play against Sport in Lisbon or Yeah. Racing Club Vienna, something like that. Well, I tell you, I’ve always been interested in, see, writing writing songs about football is a bit like writing songs about Christmas. It’s very easy to do, but it’s almost impossible to do. Well, there’s very very few good songs about football. Um, but I’ve written a few. I’ve written a song. I wrote a song called Dandy Hooligan about a West Ham fan I know. And I wrote a song called Hooligans on E. And then I always had I always like that you because obviously you’re going to need something catchy in the chorus for football fans. And I like that marching feel. It’s like, [Music] you know, you can imagine lots of people singing. It’s sort of got that baggy, you know, Madchester sort of swagger to it. And then it’s just a case of trying to [Music] Star Ocean. Came. [Music] You can imagine the drums, you know, like the guys with the drums at the front, everyone singing, and then a big chord. He’s the one. He’s a barbarian. And he likes to bang his drum. And he likes to sing along cuz he’s the one start. [Music] I can imagine him singing it. You know, once once they learn it, I like it. just to be the one with the barbarians. Cuz he likes to bang his drum and he likes to sing along. [Music] No. Yeah. [Music]