City Ayatollah song set for chart

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More than 50 Cardiff City fans are set to take on the charts with their own FA Cup final song.

The supporters have recorded a comedy version of 1990s dance song La Macarena and called it Do the Ayatollah.

Fans can pre-order and download the record which will count towards the singles charts next week.

It will be available to buy in the shops next Monday, a week after the club's official song Bluebirds Flying High was released.

That song - written and recorded by City fan James Fox, the UK Eurovision entrant in 2004 - was released on Monday 5 May and was reported to be outselling Madonna's number one single 4 Minutes on pre-order sales.

Nigel Hart, who produced Do the Ayatollah, said the song was meant to be enjoyed by all the fans.

It is currently number three in the HMV pre-order charts.

"When we were approached by the Bluebirds fans to do a single we thought that seeing as there was already a song being done by James Fox, we would make ours more of a fun project that anyone can get involved in," he said.

The song was recorded by a group of over 50 Bluebirds fans at Grownup-Records studios in Caerphilly.

The video was then filmed around Cardiff, including at Ninian Park and in Cardiff Bay.

The record will be officially released on 12 May, a week before Cardiff City take on Portsmouth in the FA Cup final.