Swede Olof Mellberg plans to fire up his Aston Villa teammates with the heavy metal music of his compatriots In Flames.
According to the British daily Daily Mirror, while in Birmingham on tour with Slayer, In Flames phoned the club membership and asked for a meeting with Mellberg.В
Over tea and biscuits In Flames discussed life with Mellberg and gave him their eight albums plus free tickets for the concert. Mellberg said on his part that the energetic music might fire up his teammates for the game with Blackburn after four recent losses. “I went to the concert but did not bang my head to save energy for the upcoming game”, Mellberg said. “I don’t like that heavy music and would hardly play it in the changing room but Thomas Sorensen and Gavin McCann might like it.”
After all, Aston Villa beat Blackburn by 2:0.