Football and Music

Recently the BBC have partly opened their Desert Island Discs archive. The programme has been on the radio since 1942 and has interviewed hundred of thousands of personalities.

Surprisingly though they haven’t featured all that many footballers. Maybe because it is Radio 4 and their audience is more rugger and croquet than that association thing.

One of the two football-related podcasts they have made available is with the late great SIR BOBBY ROBSON.

You can still get grab this episode from the website but I’ve added it here in case they take it offline.

This episode was recorded in December 2004, four months after Newcastle had sacked him.
Graeme Souness took over and he took them to the giddy heights of 14th place.

In the programme presenter Sue Lawley talks to Sir Bobby about that and about his football playing career, as well as his achievements in management. Other subjects covered were about his recent cancer battle and about his upbringing and going down the mines when he was 15, something he never forgot.

Because of restrictions the full versions of the music selected by Sir Bobby not included in the podcast, so to fix that I’ve got four of his choices for your delectation below:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. » Robbie Williams/Frank Sinatra – It Was A Very Good Year

Note: This is actually the 2nd time Sir Bobby was on Desert Island Discs, in his previous appearance (in 1986) he selected another Frank Sinatra track.

Always difficult listening to Nessun Dorma, I still break up… Still miss the man. We’ll meet again some day.