Name a good song about football

[DannyL]

Inspired by this atrocity.

I'm doing this thread on Facebook as well and have found maybe one song. What is out there?

 

[DannyL]

Sherwood is a confirmed Hammer.

 

[version]

 

[sufi]

 

[version]

I like Three Lions tbh. Shakira's World Cup song was catchy too,

 

[DannyL]

I have never knowingly listened to Half Man Half Biscuit

 

[DannyL]

Meant to for years, just managed not to so far.
The Shakira is a cut above so many other football songs but that's not saying a lot.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

 

[sufi]

I have never knowingly listened to Half Man Half Biscuit

they have a fair few songs about the footer

 

[sufi]

they have a fair few songs about the footer

Name a good song about Nerys Hughes

 

[sufi]

New Order did a dreadful song,
has anyone on fb come up with anything even remotely OK?
football brings the worst out in music

 

[Mr. Tea]

For a given value of "about":

 

[DannyL]

New Order did a dreadful song,
has anyone on fb come up with anything even remotely OK?
football brings the worst out in music

This is the best one so far:

God Bless Jorge Ben.

 

[DannyL]

I just remembered this. It has noises from the Anfield in the second verse so I'm chucking it in:

 

[DannyL]

Can't believe I didn't remember this lot!

Well I can. They're hardly my normal fare...

 

[boxedjoy]

football forever, football's a game, whoa

 

[boxedjoy]

I really like "Waka Waka" but the optics of Shakira performing it aren't great, are they. "We are all Africa" hmm.

 

[boxedjoy]

I'm Scottish and I have zero interest in football as a sport but I really like "Three Lions*" because it's not a song about victory or defeat, but a song about hope, and who isn't endeared to an underdog?

(*specifically the original version. The 98 version has terrible lyrics)

 

[WashYourHands]

genuinely about stadium lighting


(@version not really)

 

[Corpsey]

Songs that are designed to accompany football tournaments/teams sort of have to be chantable, which obviously imposes limitations. Within those parameters Three Lions reigns supreme (as much as I hate the very thought of David Baddiel) and I also really like World in Motion. (Awful rap included.)

You wouldn't ever listen to these songs on your own at home, or even with other people in a non football context. But they're inhabiting some sort of genre of their own.

Funny how 7 nation army has become so ubiquitous in football, at least based on watching the euros. And again, it's not the song itself but the chantable, slightly dumb sounding riff.