I remember it used to be that every FA Cup final and every world cup there were always a bunch of awesomely terrible (with one or two exceptions) songs by football teams released.

Whatever happened to these?
When did they stop?
Whats the deal?

You answered your own question. They were awful.

A good one was "Spurs are no their way to Wembly"

With Ossie Ardiles sining in " In the cup for Tottenham" in an argentinian accent.

Its so bad its cringeworthy in a good way.

So is R&B. Awfulness is no barrier to music being made

Well that's different. Many like R&B and it sells well. I think most would agree that most footy songs apart from New Order and The Three Lions one were pretty naff.

Plenty of football related songs around, now mostly performed by indie bands. Try

Fast forward:an indie music companion to world cup 2010, which is a song by an artist from each of the countries involved

Offside by Drugstore, Brazilian singer making fun of English football

World cup by Yellow melodies, Spanish band singing about winning the world cup

I liked Ant and Dec "On the Ball"

The year of France98 there was hundreds. Most of them very good too but since then most of the efforts have been dire and now they are hardly any.

Vindaloo - Fat Les will always be my fave

Go here for an awesome football song and video to go with it.

God bless you and the singer always!!!

Holly

I remember Ant and Dec's We're On The Ball. Wasn't it for the World Cup a few years back or something? I still have the CD single somewhere

Didn't The FA not commission an official one in 2010 so as it didn't distract the players or some other ridiculous, clutching at straws reason?

There was a rather good one on TV tonight, written and sung by a young girl. Can't remember if it was on Notts TV, East Midlands Today or The One Show.

It was on 'The One Show'. The song was by 'Britain's Got Talent' finalist Gabz, who had a Top 10 single last year with self-penned song 'Lighters'.

Yeah, it was the official England song for the 2002 World Cup

That spoils it a bit in some way. I thought it was just an unknown schoolkid who'd managed to get a video made.

It's quite an achievement though, to get a song released at the moment which isn't trashed by idiotic voice processing.

Here's a version without an annoying advert at the front of it.
http://www.thecomet.net/news/video_b...song_1_3607166

Omid Djalili has done a quite good England song this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usi1WIoyIG8

Thankfully USA Soccer Guy has kept the traditional alive for the Soccer World Series 2014 with this awesome contribution!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgWxfI03lc

The 1970 England world cup squad singing Back Home is my favourite world cup song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpyriMOttA

I loved that one...

I think the big England song has died in recent years because nobody has the delusion England can actually win an international tournament anymore and nobody respects or believes in the players anymore either cause we can see they're all overrated and overpaid. They don't do anything to deserve a inspiring song.

Back in the 90's and before then it was almost as if a great song like World in Motion or Three Lions on the Shirt seemed to lift the team and we could dare to dream England might actually win it on some of their performances. There seemed to be a real spirit back then. All gone now.

The best ones which are actually to do with football are Baddiel and Skinner then Fat Les. I remember afew years ago in Mexico on a night out in Coco Bongos (Nightclub in Cancun) they played the Fat Les song and all the English were all singing and dancing to it, the Americans looked truly horrified!!

Unofficial songs always seem appropriate especially with England's record - Chumbawamba tubthumping and Oasis stop crying your heart out spring to mind!!


As a side note, has anybody heard Scott Mills and 5SOS song? I actually quite like it. It's better than Gary Barlows pathetic remix of greatest day

Absolutely spot on post.

I remember back in 1996, 3 Lions would some on and the whole pub would erupt,singing along and waving their arms like they were on a football terrace. Nowadays, I doubt most would even bother putting their drinks down

Yeah, most people too concerned with playing games on their mobile phone or texting their friends to tell them they're going to the toilet

That's right! I really must dig out the CD. It'll still be ok to play it this year I presume? I've got it somewhere

World In Motion was a genuinely good song . That could have been a single even if the lyrics were changed. Same with Three Lions. Those songs were an exception to the rule though