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Watford Football Club defender Jay DeMerit has joined the prestigious league of singing footballers! Following in the footsteps of Hoddle, Waddle and John Barnes, Jay has recorded a song called 'Soccer Rocks' which Hornets fans are snapping up from the Club Shop! However, the man who set Watford on the road to the Premiership with the opening goal in the play off final against Leeds, has no intentions of hanging up his football boots for life on a tour bus. Jay said: "It's crazy! It's really kind of funny though. I don't care that I'm being made fun of because it's something fun. "It came off and it's something for the fans to enjoy - not to critique." Friends of Jay in Minneapolis run a small indie record label and after writing 'Soccer Rocks' last season, they persuaded Jay to add his vocals in the summer.
He said: "I have never done anything like it before. It came out of the blue but I did really enjoy the experience and it was good seeing what it was like to record music. I didn't know what I was doing, I just wailed into the mike for a while! Jay adds: "My friends said they were going to press it, so I said if you are going to do that, then we should do it for a good cause. That's how the idea of a charity single came about. "I asked if we could sell it for the Watford fans. The song is about promotion and what it takes to get there, it's even got a line about Elton John in there - it's a bit of memorabilia." Soccer Rocks is being sold at the official Watford club shop in aid of Cancer Research, a charity that Jay cares strongly about. Last season he played in a charity game organised by Del Deanus, former assistant coach at Jay's old club Northwood, whose father passed away two years ago.
The Watford regular says that he has caught his fellow players singing 'Soccer Rocks', especially in the physio room where club physio Andy Rolls often plays it on the stereo. Jay told us that he has no plans to make a video for the song, "No I don’t think that’s likely, I would probably need to get my team mates on board for that and I don't think there's any way that would happen! "The others make sure I concentrate on the football but they enjoy it as well," said Jay "I'm not planning on a career in music, let's put it that way…."
Listen to Jay speak to BBC Three Counties Radio Breakfast Show presenter Roberto Perrone here:
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