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Footballer Namedrops: Thiago Silva Is Far From the First Time Players Get Mentioned in Rap

One of the highlights of this years Glastonbury festival was grime artist Dave performing one of his biggest tracks 'Thiago Silva' on stage with a fan.

Alex, who was selected from the crowd for wearing a PSG shirt with the Brazilian centre-back's name on the back, stole the limelight as he smashed Dave’s track word-for-word on stage.

The clip went viral fast, and even caught the attention of Silva himself.

But which other footballers have had namedrops in the music world? We trawled music lyric database Genius for some footballing references.

AJ Tracey, who features on 'Thiago Silva' alongside Dave, put out a track in 2017 titled 'False', a song crammed with footballing references and dozens of namedrops, particularly of Tottenham players, who the London rapper supports.