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 !!
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.
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"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
I thought he was talking about Rugby in that one.
Sultans of Ping - Give him the ball and a yard of grass.
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)
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A patriot is someone who knows how to hate his country properly.
My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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
Which Belle and Sebastian track is that?
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
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
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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.
Was thinking of that song too but couldnt rem the name of it. Thanks Noby.
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' ?
A patriot is someone who knows how to hate his country properly.
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
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Quality tune.
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."
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
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.
They say what about the meek?
I say they’ve got a bloody cheek
"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"
Quoting years at random since 1975
"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.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
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'
They say what about the meek?
I say they’ve got a bloody cheek
Can you believe no-one's mentioned Joxer?
Although I assume that's a given.
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