The Society of Big-Eaters!

A.S. Roma are now second in Serie A.
This may not mean much to many of you, but it means a lot to us. You see, the better Roma do, the less sleep we get. On match nights the social club across the road is packed out and screams and shouts greet every goal; we don't even need to leave the house. And since the boys in red and gold having been doing alright of late, the party has continued out on our street until way into the night.

To be honest, I'm happy to loose some sleep so long as they keep on winning (Rachel, incidently, is largely ambivalent). Both of us, though, are now massive fans of the A.S. Roma hymn. Like all good football songs, it's wondrously camp.
Some extracts:

...Roma, beautiful Roma,
I painted you
yellow like the sun,
red like my heart!

Roma, my Roma,

...you were born great
and great you have to remain!
...Roma, Roma, Roma,
heart of this city,
one and only love
of many and many people,
you made us fall in love!

Good stuff, no? But even better, is a second song that I found on an A.S. Roma fansite. This one, the 'hymn of Roman people' apparently, is called La societa' dei magnaccioni or 'The Society of Big-Eaters'. Amazing. The key lines (in the Roman dialect and then in English):

La societa' de li magnaccioni,

la societa' de la gioventu',

a noi ce piace

da magna' e beve

e nun ce piace da lavora'...

(or)

The society of big-eaters,

the society of the youth,

what we like

is to eat and to drink

and what we don't like is to work...

The above has been officially adopted as the motto of the Russell-Wilson household. Rachel is scratching it above the door as I write. But, what does it sound like you ask? Listen for yourselves here (and it's the karaoke version!).