Football and Music

England team just named. That bottler Bentley is included. He’s only scored 1 this season so far so not really a big threat up front. Aston Villa’s Ashley Young also getting his 1st call up. - I would start with Wright-Phillips on the wing, he was on fire in the Germany friendly.

Anton Reid	Antonio Puerta
Ray Jones	Rhys Jones

I like this trend now where the fans stand and give a minutes applause. It is a good thing. We should celebrate their life, not mope about it.

Guess who has just got injured again. In the 30th minute of some pointless but money spinning final. He went in for a 50/50 ball with a defender and got a sprained right knee. He was supposed to fly out on Sunday to join the England team, that’s obviously out the window now. - Oh and guess which team lost the match.

Heads up all you Grebo’s - Double your pleasure today with two recordings from the Black Country.

Staying in the ’90’s, even though it was (Radiohead and Nirvana excepting) a sh?t pointless decade, there was another band who worshipped the beautiful game, or to be more precise - an certain Italian prOn star-turned MP…

Pop Will Eat Itself or PWEI or the Poppies recorded some memorable songs, but today our focus is on Cicciolina. *ahem* come on chaps… not that sort of focus…

In 1990 at the height of the Italio house/dance/rave type music PWEI came out with a song in time for Italia ‘90 which included footie-related samples, no lyrics - just a chorus, and had nothing to do with La Cicciolina, but at the time she was all over the place.. *ahem* again… thanks to her appearance on Rapido (she also had a minor pop career) and for obviously being an adult film star.

I remember and will never forget one famous occasion… I think it was after 1990, when she appeared on Jonathan Ross’ teatime (6pm) show when he was on Channel 4. After her introduction as she was walking out she flashed a tit at the audience. This was live telly at the time and none of that Janet Jackson nipple delay was in effect then.

Anyhoddles… to the music.

Listen:

PWEI - Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina

Extra fact: Some copies of the single contained petition forms demanding that Cicciolina be allowed to present the 1990 FIFA World Cup to the winning team.

BONUS: The Poppies take on Peter Gabriel:

» PWEI - Games Without Frontiers.

Last minute summer sale bargains - Kenny Miller, Maciej Zurawski and Thomas Gravesen all 50% off. Another item taken of the shelf - Berbatov no longer available.