About Football and Music

Posted on February 5, 2008   |   Filed under: News  |   |  Comments Off  

In the beginning...

This place was first created from something else.
The start was a prediction league, the footie and music bit was a happy accident afterwards.

Football and Music is run by a British Expat now living in North Carolina in the USA.
Not long after I moved here… (if you are really interested – a little bit more about “I” can be found here) I joined a British Expats forum, in an effort to connect to my fellow countrymen and to help with settling in one of the former colonies.

I don’t miss Blighty that much but what I do miss is the football. It became soon apparent that the septics here did not regard the beautiful game in such high regard. In fact (before Derek arrived) it was seen as a girls sport and given very, very little coverage.
(This was all before I had broadband). In an effort to keep in touch with the beautiful game there was a thread started on the BritExpats forum in which we would talk about nothing but football. The BFT (British Football Thread – so named because it was founded by English and Scottish expats) became the longest running single thread on the forums. Sadly it has died now, but it was kept alive by the footie mad forum members for over three years.

On the thread we began to post guesses on what we though the final scores were going to be on the weekend’s matches. This was something that quite a few people joined in on and with me being a webbie, I began a search for a program or something which I could run from a website so we could all keep track of what we predicted. I then found this genius script done by Prediction Football and got that up and running. This ran for two seasons before the move to F&M…

Then one day I had a bit of a similar thought to what the YouTube creators had…

You Tube – for those who don’t know how it came about, was because of Janet Jackson’s nipple.
The word got out about the flash (which nobody noticed in the live show, it was only because of some sad bastard had TIVO’d the Superbowl halftime show and had replayed it in slow motion, much to the pleasure of his watching kids I’m sure) but when the YT inventors search the web to view a video of this moment they became frustrated because they noticed that… there wasn’t a website where any or all video clips were gathered so people could find it. Thus You Tube was born.

My similar moment was with wanting to watch The Anfield Rap again. Don’t know why, think I wanted to remind myself of how craptacular it was.

After this I went searching for other footie and musical moments and it was at this point that like the You Tube guys, I discovered that there wasn’t any place where all this footieandmusic was collected. Thus Football and Music came into being.

I have to cite my influences as well – Twohundredpercent occasionally posts some songs, which is what also inspired me. Plus over at The Vinyl Villian they were posting music and football related songs. Again they helped me discover this entire football and music genre, which if you look through some of the archives now you’d wish it didn’t actually exist.

But it does and now we are here to record and take note of who subjects who should have never met.

I have found some gems, but most of the time some horrors. I thought that it wouldn’t last all that long but every day I find something new. This journey never seems to end.

- I always welcome your submissions and please send me anything and everything you find.
Doesn’t matter if I already have it. The more information I get helps me in discovering other items.

I’ve started and will add to my Most Wanted List below. If you spot any of these, or have anything you are looking for then email me below.

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Football and Music’s Most Wanted:

• Leo Sayer – Hamish The Goalie Background info
• Michael Marra – The Flight Of The Heron Background info
• Midge Ure – Hey Argentina ! Background info
• Top Of The Pops appearance of the Scotland 1982 World Cup Squad with John Gordon Sinclair and BA Robertson singing “We Have A Dream” Background info