Best song that makes reference to football

[Marked Man]

I'd go for Half Man Half Biscuit's "All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit."

Others?

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'd go for Half Man Half Biscuits 'The Referees Alphabet'

"U is for the Umpire I sometimes wish I'd become ...you never hear the cricket crowd chanting "who's the b@stard in the hat?"

[tetsujin1979]

I'm assuming we're not talking about football records here - Watch Your House For Ireland, Here Come The Good Times, etc?

Aswad - Shine
"Ian Wright, scoring"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287-wv4sK5c

[Marked Man]

[QUOTE=tetsujin1979;717245]I'm assuming we're not talking about football records here - Watch Your House For Ireland, Here Come The Good Times, etc?

QUOTE]

Right. Gimmick records by football stars/teams don't count. Ditto for records that are targeted towards a particular world cup/fa cup sorta thing.

[The Good Son]

Along with the previous Half Man Half Biscuit songs, I'd go also with 'I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan', in truth you could have an entire section of Half Man Half Biscuit football songs and a good few classics in there. Two good ones with football related titles, but very little to do with football are Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros' - 'Tony Adams' & 'Shaktar Donetsk'.

[noby]

Another HMHB one: Friday night and the gates are low.
I'm a little confused by the criteria. Do songs in homage to a player count?
If so:
Give him a ball and a yard of grass - Sultans of Ping
Strachen - Hitchers

Morrissey's We'll let you know doesn't actually mention football, but is about football hooligans.
And anything by Dario G, I guess.

[superfrank]

The World Cup '98 song. Can't think of it's name but it's seems like every team's fans sing it.

[Macy]

Remember - The Dust Junkys

[MyTown]

You're in My Heart - Rod Stewart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rolleyes:

"You're celtic, united
but baby, I've decided
You're the best team I've ever seen..............."

How sad was that?:eek:

almost as sad as his appearance in Wembley on Sunday evening?

[Dodge]

"All I want for christmas is the Dukla Prague away kit"

Dublin band A Lazarus Soul have a song about former Pats player (and high level gangster) Derek Dunne; 'Me and Maradona Dunne'

[noby]

One I forgot earlier.

Ballboy - The Sash My Father Wore


Page three girls get you excited,
You support rangers and man united,
All you do is take up space,
With a stupid look, on your stupid face.

You had a girlfriend you really loved,
But you were a **** and she got fed up of it,
I don't know what you do,
But i know we'd be better off without you,

'cause you're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,
You're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,
You're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,
You're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,

You've got billy tattooed on your neck,
And a union jack above your bed,
You've got nothing intelligent to say,
And no-one's listening, to you anyway,

Cos you're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,
You're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,
You're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,
You're a big, fat, bigoted arsehole,

[Bluebeard]

Coup de Boule - the French smash hit from last July.

Watch the vid here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kWAJhUNj8Xg)

[endabob1]

Give him a ball and a yard of grass - Sultans of Ping


If only for the classic Cloughie quote "He's a nice young man with a lovely smile"

[Neish]

The Football Song by George Daws

[bennocelt]

If only for the classic Cloughie quote "He's a nice young man with a lovely smile"

Yeah that Sultans of Ping FC song is ace, and i love the way they have the football clap in it, def worth checking out in Cork this summer

[stann]

Two brilliant tunes:
Collapsed Lung - 'Eat My Goal'
Kenickie - 'Millionaire Sweeper'

And a there's a couple of great lines in 'Ha Ha' by UK rapper Ty:
'Feeling that my left toe's equal to Pelé' and the immortal 'You stay rushing with Ian, I'm Ronnie Whelan'.
That's me fave hiphop tune ever anyway so that gets my vote.

[TonyD]

I'm Immortal - Trash Can Sinatras. Cracking song.

out for a spell, i was slated. i'd lost a yard, i was hated
i dug a rug out in the dugout, lazing, I joined in the turnout
that's no life at all


out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected
laughing, i joined in the squabbles, over the hill. I'm immortal
immortal, immortal, immortal, no life at all
i'm immortal and that's no life, no life at all


i took a kick in the confidence, down in the tackle i hurt
i took a shine to your big size tens
now all around the subject i skirt. gingerly, gingerly
and that's no life, no life at all


i just went out for a spell
i just went out for a smoke
i took a dive i was a sub
i thought my number was up
but i'm immortal, and that's no life, no life at all
speaking of tongues, baby (repeat)
i'm immortal, i'm immortal

[pineapple stu]

He always beat me at Subbuteo
Cos he flicked to kick, and I didn't know.

Does that count?

[Calcio Jack]

Has to be Bob Dylan's Positivelty4th Street, which was written on behalf of Roy Keane and perfectly described Keane's and most fans views on McCarthy and Alf Halland

" You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend,
when I was down you just stood there grinning
you got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
you just want to be on the side that's winning.

You say i let you down , you know it's not like that
if you're so hurt , why then don' t you show it
I know the reason why you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd you're in with.

Do you take me for such a fool to think i'd make contact
with the one who tries to hide
what he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street and you always act surprised
you say hello, 'how are you' 'good luck'
but you don't mean it
when you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralysed
why don't you just once come out and scream it !

No I do not feel that good when i see the heartbreaks you embrace
if i was a masterthief perhaps I'd rob them
And now I know you're dissatisfied with your position and you place
Don't you understand it's not my problem

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
and just for that one moment that I could be you
Yes I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to be you "
then you'd realise what a drag it is to see you "

[Lionel Ritchie]

...thought of another good one!

0-0 AET by Thousand Yard Stare

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[Calcio Jack]

This kinda qualifies by default.... but am I the only person when they hear Nessum Dorma played who goes into a momentary trance and sees a vision of Paul McGrath moving in slow motion as he gracefully breaks up Italien attack after attack because somehow his performance in 1994 against them has in some strange way melded into my memories of Italia '90... it still makes the hair stand up on the back of my head 17 years on !!

[noby]

Similarly, the George Michael and Aretha Franklin song 'I knew you were waiting'. RTE used it over a montage at the end of one of the Euro '88 matches - the final I think. Every time I hear that song it reminds me of Euro '88, before I quickly turn off the radio.

[gustavo]

"The headmaster Ritual" the smiths

Mid-week on the playing fields
Sir thwacks you on the knees

Knees you in the groin
Elbow in the face
Bruises bigger than dinner plates

[Anto McC]

I thought he was talking about Rugby in that one.

Sultans of Ping - Give him the ball and a yard of grass.

[sonofstan]

2 Fall classics:
Kicker Conspiracy ('how flair is punished' - about George Best as much as anything as far as i can tell, gracious from a City fan)
and, more recently,
Theme from Sparta FC ('we are not Galatasaray, we're Sparta FC'- I dream of being in a crowd chanting that)

[OneRedArmy]

He always beat me at Subbuteo
Cos he flicked to kick, and I didn't know.

Does that count?My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones.

[Magicme]

Another Pings classic - Kick me with your leather boots:

Socrates and Selnopenhaur are really very nice.
Told you 'bout Ardiles and you said you'd read him twice.
Your stunning social conscience has me running round the bend.
Kick me with your leather boots,
Kick me hard again.

Please my dear - kick me with your leather boots.
I'm sincere - Kick me with your leather boots.

You took me to your bedroom and I got such a thrill,
It was like a sequal to the Boys from Brazil.
When we wear our leather boots we're so unashamed.
You smashing left foot volley,
Sends the blood to my brain.


Now for some anti-football lyrics from Belle & Sebastian:

I don't want to play football
I don't understand the rules of the game
I don't want to play football
I don't understand the thrill of the running, catching, throwing
Taking orders from a moron
Grabbing for the sweaty crotches
Getting hit by people I don't know
Sugar, I'd rather play a different sort of game
Sugar, the girls are just as good as boy at playing

[Bluebeard]

Now for some anti-football lyrics from Belle & Sebastian:

I don't want to play football
I don't understand the rules of the game
I don't want to play football
I don't understand the thrill of the running, catching, throwing
Taking orders from a moron
Grabbing for the sweaty crotches
Getting hit by people I don't know
Sugar, I'd rather play a different sort of game
Sugar, the girls are just as good as boy at playing

Which Belle and Sebastian track is that?

[noby]

I don't want to play football, funnily enough. From Storytelling.

They did redress the balance a little on Another Sunny Day:


Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football
We're playing for our lives the referee gives us f*** all
I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines
Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

[CollegeTillIDie]

Dead Men Don't Need Season Tickets by Half Man Half Biscuit.

And the best footballing non sequitir from an otherwise non footballing song.

'' Supercalafragilistic Borussia Moenchengladbach'' from the Basta*d Son of Dean Friedman by Half Man Half Biscuit.

[Magicme]

I don't want to play football, funnily enough. From Storytelling.

They did redress the balance a little on Another Sunny Day:

Was thinking of that song too but couldnt rem the name of it. Thanks Noby.

[sonofstan]

Isn't there a Billy Bragg line something like
'How can you lie back and think of England/ when you don't even know who's in the team' ?

[Dodge]

In a similar vein to Calcio Jack above, I've always loved "the Life of Reilly" by the Linghtning Seeds as it reminds me of Goal of the Month on MOTD

[OneRedArmy]

In a similar vein to Calcio Jack above, I've always loved "the Life of Reilly" by the Linghtning Seeds as it reminds me of Goal of the Month on MOTD
"Shearer...................goooooooooooaaaaaaaaalll lllllllllll" :D

Quality tune.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Isn't there a Billy Bragg line something like
'How can you lie back and think of England/ when you don't even know who's in the team' ?

I forgot 'The Few' by Billy Bragg which deals with what Sky would call '...the tiny minority who ruin it for everyone else' ...quite.

"My Neighbours shake their heads and take their valuables inside.
While my countrymen p1ss into their fountains to express our national pride."

[The Good Son]

Isn't there a Billy Bragg line something like
'How can you lie back and think of England/ when you don't even know who's in the team' ?
Greetings To the New Brunette is the song, the back of the 12" also has a photo of Billy playing football outside Connolly Hall in Cork.

[Wolfie]

I'd go for Half Man Half Biscuit's "All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit."

Others?

"Song for a Family" from Inspiral Carpets debut album "Life" (1990) -

"See the lad on the Saturday terraces,
With his collar pulled up around his chin,
His side are two goals down and playing lousy,
yet he still believes his team are gonna win"

[TonyD]

Isn't there a Billy Bragg line something like
'How can you lie back and think of England/ when you don't even know who's in the team' ?

"Greetings to the New Brunette" Shame on you Stan, how could you not know that.

Also from Billy Bragg

"I had an Uncle who once played, for Red Star Belgrade" - "Sexuality"

"Strange as it may seem, I once had my football dream
But I was always the last one to get chosen when my classmates picked their teams" and "Now I'll never get picked to play, my song on Match of the Day" - "The Boy Done Good" He appeared on TV (it may have been TFI Friday) playing that song in a West Ham shirt.

[The Good Son]

A couple of good ones from The Proclaimers,
'The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues' and 'Cap In Hand' with the line-
'I Can understand how Stranraer lie so lowly
They could save a lot of points by signing Hibs goalie'

[pineapple stu]

Can you believe no-one's mentioned Joxer?

Although I assume that's a given.

[sonofstan]

"Greetings to the New Brunette" Shame on you Stan, how could you not know that.


*hangs head* Actually was never a big BB fan - one of those people who you recognise is good and all, and certainly talented and worthy of respect, but never connect with at any deeper level - I have the same problem with Tom Waits.

[paul_oshea]

legend of a song stu