When going through my CD collection here (with a view to writing down to see what I have here and to maybe selling them to a second hand record shop) I rediscovered some half forgotten gems in the form of my Pop Will Eat Itself collection. It must have been about 10 years since I played any of t... Read More..>>
A Song For England: Round 2
- VOTE NOW - The poll has closed for the 1st round and the winner is... -+ The Shining Hour +- He will now go up against our next contenders... Blind Granny's Taxi Nightmare These chaps have previous with an England World Cup song having previously released a previous version (have I said previous enough ?) of this tune four years ago. The
The Day The (Football and) Music Died
Despite us taking the p1ss, we here at F&M actually like them and were devastated to read the news today (oh boy) about the ending of their partnership: Dave (the one with the beard) has announced his retirement from the music biz following the death of hi
Singing For England
So you've read that there will be no official England World Cup song. So you think you can fill that void ? So then tell us about it. I know I'm going to regret this, but it's as inevitable as [inse
Bobby Moore Really Was Innocent
This is the first post of a few that will remember the legend that was Sir Bobby Moore. I know he wasn't knighted when he was alive, but that was the fault of the powers that be who only realised their mistake after his passing and made up for it by giving a gong to Geoff Hurst. So why not award him a knighthood posthumously eh ? Today though i
Dennis the Menace
I don't know what I could write, what other words could be contributed to describe the best deep lying centre forwards that the Premier League has even seen. The two songs here are done by some Arsenal supporting musical acts about his time at Highbury, but I want give a mention to one of the ...Read More
A Life Less Ordinary
I read an article in passing the other week but I've not had the opportunity to post something in relation to it until now. Since this is tribute to the departed this week it is appropriate to do this now. This entry will be a sort of introduction/link to the next subject. Everyone I'm sure is familiar with what happened with Justin ...Read More
The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw
Not being original with the title of the post, using the same one as the book, but it is an excellent description of today's subject and it can't be bettered. This is the first in a mini-series looki
Cold Electric Blue, Those Diamond Lights
Ah that seminal appearance... That's what I should have called this place. Football and Music...dull as ditch water. What was I thinking. A few of the Friendlies linked to the right there had some imagination when entitling theirs, so where was mine ? Nowhere. I know it does what it says on the tin but if I called it "Diamond Lights", peopl
Mister Grimsdale !
It is sad to read that his kids have put Sir Norman Wisdom into a retirement home. Well he is 92 years old now and only retired from performing live on stage at 90. But some gutter rats from The News of the Screws ...Read More
Stranger Than Fiction
This one starts out as strange and then gets a whole lot weird... Here's a chant that Palace fans would have heard a few years back:"He's fat, he's round, he's taking Crystal Palace down..."The Swede with a turning circle of the Titanic came to our attention when he s
The Adams Family
Introductions not needed... This next song isn't actually about the addicted (but recovered), dated Caprice, dropped Steve Morrow, legged it from Wycombe before being sacked and now taking Pompey into a downwaMany of us have fond memories of the 1970 World Cup, even though many of us have never actually seen it. But yet it still stays fresh in our minds. This is because we've seen the clips, we've read of those historic moments and we hear of people still talking about it all the time. It remains... Read More..>>
As with the Ruud boy yesterday this is another player that needs no introduction. But I'm still going to. About that 1970 World Cup... Again we are all familiar with it now. You know, that save which denied Pele. I've previously posted a quote from "O Rei" on what he thought of that sto... Read More..>>
Sexy Ruud Time
Filed under: Music Tags: AC_Milan, Chelski, Feyenoord, HFC_Haarlem, Holland, PSV, Sampdoria
Don't really need to introduce you to the man who said those now famous words... ... But I'm still going to because I like to fill in some space before I post the music. The son of a Afro-Surinamese migrant and his mistress, Ruud Gullit started playing and developed his football skills... Read More..>>
...or something about their wings being clipped ? I dunno... I'll come back to this when I've got a better title. This is the other post looking at two teams with two common denominators: 1) They are in a financial crisis and 2) but they are still in the FA Cup. The club featured yesterday a... Read More..>>
I'm hoping to get a couple of posts out looking at a couple of teams still in the FA Cup (5th Round) but might not be* after Saturday. This is the first of the two. *Or still could be. They both beat higher opposition in the last round, so... 'New owners' 'new investment' and 'big s... Read More..>>
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