BLACKBURN Rovers ace Matt Jansen has his sights on 40 this season -- the Top 40.
The Ewood Park favourite scored 40 goals in the past two campaigns, but his goal this time round is getting into the music charts with a new CD featuring some of the game's biggest names.
Matt, who will be 25 next Sunday, has recorded three songs for the CD In A League Of Their Own, which will be released on Monday by Decca Records.
The former Carlisle and Crystal Palace striker, who missed out on his senior England debut and a possible World Cup call-up in the summer due to a stomach bug, has recorded versions of Walking in Memphis, originally recorded by Marc Cohn in 1991, and Babylon, which was a hit for David Gray in 2000.
He also plays piano on a version of Elton John's instrumental 1978 Top Five hit Song For Guy.
Other stars to appear on the CD include TV pundits Ron Atkinson and Ally McCoist and Leicester's Frank Sinclair.
The brainchild of producer Gorden Lorenz, the artists were approached and asked to contribute their favourite songs. They then filed into a recording studio to record the tracks.
And despite appearing in front of crowds of 30,000-plus week in week out in the Premiership, Matt admitted to being nervousgetting a touch of the nerves. He said: "There were only two other people in the recording studio so I was all right after a while, but it's something I have never done before and I was a bit nervous.
"Once I started I was fine."
A self-confessed fan of the "golden oldies" Matt drew up a shortlist of 10 songs before whittling it down to his favourite three.
And like his debut for Rovers, in which he scored against Tottenham Hotspurs following a £4million move from Crystal Palace, Matt can be very proud of his first efforts on disc -- especially his piano solo.
Matt said: "I've only been playing for just over a year, but it was a stop-start recording.
"When I made a mistake we just stopped and started again. But I think my appearance on Top of The Pops is on hold for now at least."
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