Miserable Faith, A Chinese rock band that went viral with a song about an English football club has revealed for the first time their very personal reasons for writing it. Richard Bestic in the UK has been lending an ear to the musical tribute.

Wolves Ay We is Miserable Faith's ode to Wolves, Wolverhampton Wanderers, on the club's triumphant rise to the super rich English Premier League.

No fair-weather-fans either. It was during a UK tour two years ago, when Wolves languished in a lower league, that Miserable Faith became fans.

GUO HU, LEAD SINGER MISERABLE FAITH "We've liked football since we were kids. You can hear a lot of good music on the football terraces and that inspired us to write a song about Wolves. It started out as a folk song played on a whistle, but after a lot of talking on tour, it was finally finished and what you hear now."

Miserable Faith is one of China's most influential rock bands and Wolves, one of many clubs in Britain on the receiving end of substantial amounts of Chinese money.

The Chinese conglomerate Fosun International snapped up Wolves for nearly $60 million dollars two years ago at the same time as Miserable Faith was paying a visit.

So it's hard to say who does best out of this rock anthem.

ZHANG JING, BASS PLAYER MISERABLE FAITH "We had a number of reasons, but the main reason for us to write this song was the Chinese connection. Apart from that, we do like football and Wolves has a long history."

China's President Xi Jinping, here visiting Manchester City during his UK tour, shares the band's love of football. He wants China to become a footballing powerhouse, promising 50,000 football academies and 20,000 new football pitches by 2030. Under the guidance of the club's lavishly bearded Portuguese head coach, known simply as Nuno, Wolves have got off to a good start in England's famously unforgiving Premier League.

But it's early days.

And of course, the support of one of China's biggest hard-core rock bands can only help. RB, CGTN, London.