Alan Latchley - Football Manager , Motivational Guru , Rapper ( Article Originally published The Scunthorpe Bugle )

Scunthorpe UTD Director of football , Alan Latchley has made the unusual move of releasing a Hip-Hop single , Called "Dare to Phail" after Alans ever popular motivational seminars it features rhymes drawing on his experience as a lower leagues manager and has been hailed by music critics for blunt and honest depiction of grassroots football and its macho culture . I spoke to Alan who was on his way to an appointment to discuss remixes with Pharrel from NERD , I asked him why Hip - Hop ?

" Well ever since I saw John Barnes' terrific rap on world in motion Ive seen Hip-Hop as the most suited musical medium for football - the rhythim and foul language that I employ in my team talks and the element of performance lends itself to the medium . The trails , tribulations and predjudices faced by Football Managers are much the same as those experienced at street level by my homies in the projects and ghetto's of the inner cities in the US . One example is the institutional persecution of Afro-Americans at the hands of law enforcement agencies - this is exactly the same as what we experience at the hands of the Football Association , the referees are the FA's street cops and there brief is to take a Muthafucker down regardless of guilt or innocence ! As with any ghetto-ised group we Managers have problems with substance abuse - in the ghetto it may be cheap crack , in the managers office it is fine wines , cigars and prawn sandwiches . I have had my problems in the past but I am working them out through my music I have a track in the can called " Tupacs O' Hamlet and a Neuf Du Pap " which is a joint I worked on with DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill "

And what of your Hip Hop influences ?

" I dont get into the East Coat/West Coast thing though the rivalry is similar to when we play Grimsby -I like UK HipHop - particularly Grime like Dizzy and Roots Manuva -Im more into an organic sound and can see myself moving away from samples and working with a live band - Smokie have been in contact about reworking "Alice" but making it "Alex" as in Sir Alex Ferguson -Im sure Its a goer "

Will this see you move away from football ?

"Football is my Wife . I go home to Football every night eat with her , argue over watching the soaps with her and ignore her sexual advances - Hip Hop is my Ho - I can do things with my Ho that I cant with my wife - like anal , You Feel Me ! I... I drive to the darkside in my five-o , make a fuck on her booty then pop a cap in her ass - but not an international cap, Oh No.... "

Here we leave Alan Latchley a man passionate about his wife and his Ho - Below is an exclusive lyricalpreview from Alans first single ....

DARE TO PHAIL

My Name's Al Rock and I get respect

The pressing game is what I expect

We tried longball pre-season at Shoreditch

And we got overun in the middle of the pitch

The back four played far to high

And the midfield ended up watching the ball in the sky

I like a couple of big lads running channels up front

Ive got a striker on loan who's a useless cunt

Bigtime Charlie , always snorting the dust

Did his medial ligaments before we got off the bus

He's the only out and out striker I have in my stable

And now he's getting a massage on the treatment table

When the chairmen sees me coming he's gonna shit his kecks

Im gonna burn up his cash like a tube of Ralgex

I rang Tony Mowbray bout signing Chris Brunt

He says he wants 2 million for the skinny cunt

I said thats too much and tried not to flip

But he thinks he'll get goals in the Championship

I offered 1.5 in instalments as a bit of lark

Now Ive brought Dean Windass to Glanford Park

He wants to play upfront and not in the hole

So I offered him a bung and a coaching role

In his first game he was clean through

But he has a turning circle like the QE2

He got a shot away and fell over like a bitch

It hit a handicapped fan at the side of the pitch

Knocked her out of her wheelchair , caused a fit and laceration

Now the brother is subject to litigation

Took him straight off , muthafucker was mad at me

Replaced him with a Belgian on a Bosman free

We got caught on the break and conceded a soft goal

Centreback ballwatching like a fucking asshole

At the full time whistle got the bum's rush

He said their striker gave him push

I said fuck you Mutha , I dont care

Muthafuckers gonna get mugged , he dont get his body there

Two weeks later he's on the transfer list

Mutual frottage with a trainee , one off the wrist

After training , soaped up in the communal bath

Now again Ive reduced my senior playing staff

Homie physio warned me " he's a brown hatter , Latch "

Used to listen to Bette Midler after every match

Im all about equality for the homosexual

But the bummers aint good for team morale....

WHOAH WHOAH , DARE TO PHAIL

INA PLAYOFF POSTION

WHOAH WHOAH , DARE TO PHAIL

SAFE FROM RELAGATION

WHOAH , WHOAH , DARE TO PHAIL

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