So I had this thought the other day, about The Italian Job movie. In the film the cover, for some of the gang who took part in the gold heist, was as England fans who had just been to watch them play in Turin against I assume Italy. I then began to ponder - What about this match ? What happened in it and what was the final score ? After the robbery a few of them bundled into Ford Thames van (dormobile) and the driver said: "Well, look [...]
"Bravo there Norwich City, good show old chaps." I've never been anywhere near Stephen Fry when he's watching them play at Carrow Road so I'm imagining this his how he cheers his team, but I'm stereotyping him. I know that the actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of Norwich Football Club isn't your stereotypical football supporter. He's not even typical Oxbridge. Loves a game of football. You can also find him posting tweets about the darts and snooker. Very much a man of the people. He has the [...]
The power of Twitter... A few years ago I spotted an album of songs about Sheffield Wednesday released on Cherry Red Records. For those of you who don't know, Cherry Red is the greatest record label every to exist. Why because they have the largest selection of football-related CD's anywhere in the world. Have a look at the list in that link there and if the CD isn't for sale on the Cherry Red site, do a search on Amazon UK. I highlighted [...]
It is now 25 years since this song was released. When it was first released it was beaten to the top spot by the Pet Shop Boys and there's a campaign to get it to number 1, but there's fierce competition this year. The good thing though is those others are a one-off, so if it doesn't succeed this year then it will re-enter the charts again, as it has done in the past. You can never keep a good song down. [...]
I swore to myself that I'd never look at this subject every again, but just... can't... resist... The horror that is football and music has a bigger horror that even it is scared of: Football and Christmas music. I was actually looking at the Tags page and was surprised to discover that I had covered this subject more times than necessary. So this is definitely. Absolutely. The [...]
A new podcast about another figure who loved the limelight... I don't know if Brian Clough did actually love it, but he knew he couldn't avoid it. Was part of the job so he played to his audience. Which was usually the TV presenters but occasionally he parried with his fellow professionals. This particular pod briefly covers his Derby days but is mostly about Cloughy's time at Nottingham Forest. Like all the F&M pods it has music and audio clips from interviews and elsewhere: Tracklistings: FootieAndMusic Podcast - Clough: [...]
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» This is a podcast I created exclusively for the chaps over at In Bed With Maradona , but sadly it isn't there any more. So I'm rehousing it back here... When creating this pod I discovered there were far more songs about Armando than I anticipated. I have over 30 tracks in my collection now so deciding which to go into a podcast was a difficult one. Most of the tracks, about 80% are decent. The crap ones you may not be surprised to read, are from English bands who went with the obvious [...]
This post for the Raith Rovers supporter JC, aka the The Vinyl Villain , who inspired me to start F&M. A few years back I posted a biography/history of Raith Rovers F.C and at the time of posting I mentioned that they were in 2nd spot of the Scotia Division 1, things were looking up. But sadly they didn't. Raith are still stuck in the same division and last season they were battling relegation. The manager John McGlynn, who in previous seasons got them [...]
After their poor showing at the last World Cup the public have awakened to the fact that some players are no more than overpaid self-interested prima donnas. This has also affected the England-song-for-a major-tournament ratio. Two years ago (thanks to the sweet F.A. deciding their would be no official anthem) I was inundated with emails from budding amateur artists with their songs for England. With a month to go until Euro 2012 this time there nowt * And I'm actually glad about that. * Actually I'm lying there are a few but [...]
So how many versions of this song (played at the Etihad Stadium before every home game) do you know...? » Supra - Blue Moon (Man City Version) Probably far less than you thought. Below are a good number I've collected and this is still the tip of the iceberg. There are still more out there. Before we begin though, one more Man City version - this to celebrate the FA Cup win [...]
To commemorate Chelsea's FA Cup/Champions League Final appearance... ... a last minute thrown together podcast with some of their musical "highlights" Despite what you think about the team...well to be more precise... certain individuals in that team... you've still got to salute the achievement by Chelsea F.C in reaching two cup finals. Sadly though, after all of this, I still don't think that Roberto Di Matteo will be given the job full time. What if they win both cups and [...]
The 19702s. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of Clemence, it was the age of Shilton... ...and I'll stop there before the estate of Charles Dickens launches a lawsuit. When I was knee high to the proverbial, I had the privilege of watching Ray Clemence up close. I was there in the Kop, right behind those goals. Within touching distance of a man that to me at that age - looked like a [...]
Man United killed Rod Hull you know. Oh you knew. I bet you didn't know though that there is another bit of bad luck also associated him and that puppet... Ah you are not going to get me to do a bio are you ? Everybody knows about Rod Hull and Emu don't they ? Alright I'll add something: Back in the day the kid's telly presenters regularly assaulted the children on their shows. (Imagine [...]
It's a question nobody asks and nobody cares for an answer... He keeps singing and singing ... But we here at F&M dare to ask and also dare to not only answer, but give you evidence too. *ducks flying objects* It's been mentioned before on why he sings. Click on the above links to read more. For you lazy arses though to summarise: "...as a teenager he sang with band [...]
Was going to do a mention about them last year when they got promoted, then other things got in the way. But now I'm back and so are QPR: Well at the moment they are... but after some recent performances poor old Warnock got the hook and the ambition seeking Mark Hughes is now in his place. The ex-Man City boss has a decent talent pool now under his command, including ex-City players Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joey Barton. Plus he's been given a transfer budget and rumour has it [...]
October 25th: We are #KeepingItPeel Today is October 25th. Today is a solemn day, but not for long. Because we don't mope here. We celebrate. Celebrate and commemorate a life less ordinary and one that touched hundreds... thousands... dare I say it - millions of people. But not because of what he did, well yes partly... more because of the music he played. I'm not going to start listing all the bands/artists he played. Just pick a letter [...]
Since all those talky podcasts are starting up again this is the last F&M pod for now. Showing some love to our Gallic cousins across the water with some French football and music... In 1998 the Gauls were kings on the world. But that was thirteen years ago. Patrick Viera, the last member of that team hung up his boots at the end of last season. A new generation has emerged but as we witness in the 2010 World Cup, they [...]
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We are jumping on the Premier League season preview bandwagon in our own special way... Well ok... bit of a lie, we are not really. But this podcast does cover all the teams that are in the Premier League (the toppermost !) this coming season (2011-2012). All the tracks featured are - as far as possible - old tunes. There are a few exceptions which I'll explain below, but for the most these are songs sung by the teams themselves. Brace yourself. The [...]
After a bit of a delay... another podcast and this one celebrating the Republic of Ireland. The focus of this pod is when Jackie Charlton was the boss so we are looking at Euro '88, Italia '90 and USA '94. The golden era for Irish international football. Because of the limit I set for the pods (keep the length under an hour) it was very hard to select which tunes to include. I once again called upon our football and musical consultant Fredorrarci from the occasionally visited [...]
The gentleman above is Mehmet Scholl , the ex-Bayern Munich and German international player. Scholl is similar to his Scottish counterpart in that he likes to listen to some half decent tunes. I say half decent because unlike Nevin his selections are not the most eclectic or avant-guarde, but it is still stuff that you would hear on 6 Music. Before we continue - Thank you Nick from Fisted Away for the scouting. I'm not going [...]
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