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Hello to any punter who has either been forced directed or just stumbled upon this place when you were looking for something else. You clicked the link ?! Well what else were you expecting !

Football and Music does as it says on the tin – it is a website that will cover the beautiful game and throw in some musical interludes while we are waiting for the next matches.

Why football and music ?
There will be a longer version posted on the About page soon, but a quick explanation:

For some reason football and music, two branches of, if you come down to it – two branches of “entertainment” seem to end up getting together. It is an odd pairing but it does happen.
When you see a singer, such as David Bowie for instance acting in a film there is no real surprise there because both of them drink in the same pub. But when you see Kevin Keegan up at the bar with Pete Waterman you do a double take.

But the football and music thing is not where this website and idea started. It actually started with the Predictions and the sending out of the email reminder to the players to get them to enter in their predictions before kick off every week. Also mentioned in the mailout was links or items to provide distractions when there wasn’t a match on. Every week there would also be a song of the week added to the Jukebox which had a tenuous or sometimes a very esoteric link to footie.

The idea of creating an entire website and not just do the prediction league by itself came from one of my mailouts when I put an appeal out looking for any Cup Final video’s on YouTube.
I didn’t want just the audio, I was thinking that, if for some unknown reason these music masterpieces made the charts, which against all odds they always seemed to do, they couldn’t appear on Top Of The Pops every time, so there would have been a video made to accompany the Final team’s weak attempt at singing (Ossie’s Dream anybody ?)

So far my search for these video (apart from the Anfield Rap) has turned up nowt. So I am putting out an appeal here and now – If you see any video clips of any footie team’s FA Cup Final songs then please Contact me here.

That quick intro turned into a long one…

Anyhoddles. The website is as you can see up and running. There will be tweaks, fiddles and extra additions, keep a watch out for that. The Prediction League is still being worked on (got the same blokes who did the new Wembley in, they promise it will be ready soon. Honest.) but it will be up and running in a few weeks.

A few weeks ?! Our regular prediction players are saying right now.
Yes in a couple of weeks the S&GFPL 2007-2008 season will be out of the blocks.
As you will know from previous years the footie season is a long one and doing your predictions week in, week out for around 40 weeks takes it out of you. So this season, like we did with the last will start after a few of the EPL games have played.
By watching the Premier League for a couple of weeks we’ll be able to see how the teams are playing and how all these new signings are fitting in.

Then we will be ready…

But until then hang around here and I’ll be posting more guff to waste the time away.

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