Primal Scream Bassist wants the Pope to Make Sir Alex a Saint

By: Bob | May 9th, 2007

With songs like ‘Kill All Hippies’, ‘Swastika Eyes’, and ‘The Lord is My Shotgun’ to their name, it is easy to imagine that the band Primal Scream is on the Pope’s iPod shuffle list. His Holiness will undoubtedly be pleased to know that the band’s guitarist, Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, will be corresponding with him in the coming days.

Mani is a huge Manchester United fan and he is rather pleased with Sir Alex Ferguson, so much so that he thinks the nine-time Premiership champion manager deserves to be forever immortalized with the likes of Basil the Great, Constantine the Great and Pope Felix I, II, III, IV (tip: if you want to be a saint become a Pope and call yourself Felix)

“Mani wants Fergie to be made a saint,” says a friend, who faces eviction after Mani’s excitable (mid-bender) stereo volume control upset the neighbours on Monday night. “He says he’s writing a letter to the Pope listing Fergie’s miracles.

“I don’t think he’s in regular correspondence with His Holiness, but I’ve not spoken to him since last night, so for all I know he could be on the phone to him now.”

One can only imagine how that conversation would go since Sir Alex is a) a Protestant and b) alive.

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Whigsboy

Will the Roses ever reunite? Does anybody really care anymore?
Peter

Ohhhh, maybe the Pope can also make Rooney an acolyte.
dmce

Well they (Brown and Mani) were in the Stone Roses together and Brown is a Man U fan as well, so maybe he thinks the same
Bob

You can tell that I am a huge Primal Scream fan. I think I have messed up the picture in every post I have ever done about music. Thanks for the correction.
dmce

On a probably pointless note, a picture of mani or the pope may have been better than a picture of ian brown :)