Football and Music

[Aug 20th]Bring your boots, you might get a game.
International matches coming up midweek and the expected sicknotes are appearing. For England already bottling it pulled out: Bent, Campbell, Gerrard and Hargreaves. Good news though. The bloke now playing 2nd Division standard football lasted a full game the other day and will be gracing us with his presence.
For the Wales team Craig “Fore !” Bellamy is out. But he’s not doing a Giggs. His missus is about to drop.

Tribble for…

Lord Ferg of the swamp. Who, just before the season started, decided to sell Rossi and Alan Smith, get another striker in who like the injured Rooney likes to play outside the box and seemingly he’s fallen out with Saha. You have to ask after all this and the missed opportunities to test Kasper on Sunday where he expects the goals to come from.

Poor old little Sammy. As a player he was a legend for the Lidipool, you could never knock the rotund one off the ball. After he hung up his boots he was also solid as the number 2, the right hand man, but now he’s been put up front and his newBolton can’t stop letting them in. Is he first up in the managerial sack race ?

The other big game on Sunday was spoilt by some dodgy effing reffing from Robbie “two yellow’s” Styles. From reading some of the reports and listening to the pundits who saw the match he had a nightmare of a game. He gave a pen that wasn’t and at the time looked like he gave two yellow cards to Essien. Because of his clangers Styles has been dropped from the next match he was supposed to officiate and apparently has rung Rafa to offer his apols. Who will probably not be all that forgiving because Liverpool will look at it as two points lost. The antics of the Chelski players has to be called into question too. Every time he blew the whistle for a decision against them, they were all in Styles’ face.
» Lots of Flickr photo’s of the match here

Quick mentions also for »
Martin Jol. Although Spurs put 4 past the Prem’s newest whipping boys, there are whispers that his bosses were over in Spain chatting up Juande Ramos, the Sevilla manager who before Sven came in, was interested in the Citeh job but is still wanting to manage in the EPL.

Jens Lehmann. Who seems to have caught (or not as the case may be) the Calamity James disease and let another slip past him. That’s 2 in 2 weeks now. Things will be interesting in the upcoming friendly on Wednesday, if there are any player fit enough to play that is.

And finally… James Richardson and buddies dip into the football pool with another podcast.

News heads: Keano gets up the WAGs. Psycho sez he was the night-watchman at Citeh (loads of cars still got nicked outside of Maine Road). Middlesbore on their way down and taking the Mido donkey with them. And finally James Richardson and chums have a banter about the upcoming weekend matches in the Guardian’s Football Weekly Extra. Crikey.

Here you go:

That’ll be $250 Million please.

Derek was so excited by that goal that the first thing he did after he was subbed was to post an update on his blog:

“Hello everypeeps,

Speaks soon
Derek”

This is it. This is the reason why I started the website up to go with the predicts.

Well actually it’s not the reason but it’s a reason.
(How this got started was that I was looking for any YouTube clips of any footie teams singing their FA Cup final songs. That idea then spun off into doing a site about Footie and Music.)

Anyhoddles… One of the Prediction League players, MickMills played a blinder yesterday and found a couple of clips which I’ve saved for future use.
And they are good ones. Stay tuned to this station for publication of those. But it isn’t those which put me on alert, it was because - as these things always seem to happen - I was searching for something else in relation to Mick’s find and stumbled on something else quite unexpected but it is a gold mine. Pure footieandmusic gold !

Boot Sale Sounds is…

“A music blog , mainly featuring records and tapes found at boot sales, charity shops and flea markets. Mainly comedy, novelty and odd items that are hard to catagorise.”

What he has created here is a curious archive of some collectable things. (Currently on the blog is some clips of Tommy Cooper and Max Wall - both singing some tunes.)

And what got me excited was from a forgotten footie and song-related CD released in 1991.
Now these sort of CD’s have been released before. Cherry Red Records have CD’s for sale with songs from or influenced by nearly every footie team. But they don’t have this diamond in the rough.

What the Boot Sale Sounds found and posted on their blog is a CD called “Bend It ! 91″

Bend It! 91 cover

Bend It! 91 insert

On the disc you don’t find the usual early 90’s ravey-disco-ravey samba acid tunes, but old and very classic recordings including Peter Osgood and the 1970 Chelsea team. But it’s not just footie players. There’s a recording of Gracie Fields singing about football.

But the one stand out song for me, which Boot Sale Sounds provided, was a track recorded in 1953 by artists unknown. On the record they are doing a Football Calypso !

Listen:

(Ah man some quality lyrics there…)
» Unknown Artist - Football Calypso

I can guarantee that you are singing along with the chorus right now. It is that catchy.

The other songs that Boot Sale Sounds provided…

» MSV Duisberg - Zebra Twist
(At the very end you’ll hear a clip of an advert from that bloke who did the air attack warnings doing a plug for the 1970 World Cup and then somebody saying: “pass…pass.. always pass…”)

» Peter Osgood and the 1970 Chelsea team - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
(The song is introduced by Alan Hudson. Unfortunately it is not the whole song, only 2 mins of it.)

» Gracie Fields - Pass, Shoot, Goal !
(Really old. Recorded in 1931)

Additionally…

Whilst trying to find out more information about the CD I found a Japanese website which scans of the CD, the track listings and some of the text. Lots of details there.
Plus if you are fluent in Japanese there is a link to the Amazon Japan website where you can still buy it ! Oh if only I could… This looks like a collectors item.

…football football…