Yes yes... St George's Day is coming up... I know. There are lots of searches on the site for anything uniquely English. I wasn't going to bother with anything myself this year (because of all the England & World Cup stuff), but then I found things which need to be posted just so we can have this as evidence against him. Not that he would give a toss anyway... I'm talking, of course, about one Keith Philip George Allen who as we know [...]
You see ! You see ! This is why we have to Save 6 Music . If it wasn't for Tom Robinson's show we would have never heard about the following band. Getting a mention here because of a footie connection obviously, but again if it wasn't for 6 Music - where else on the radio would you hear them ? Nowhere that's where ! Yes we have the world wide web now and can spread the word about a decent new band that way, but because of [...]
- VOTE NOW - Do you know what, I've got tired of this unofficial England song thing. I'm shaking my fist at you Fabio and the F.A. Damn you, damn you all for inflicting this upon us. Do you know how many "unofficial songs" there are out there ? I mean four years ago there were dozens, but now thanks to this cursed interweb there are hundreds and hundreds and... Why couldn't the those bloody overstuffed suits pick a random name out a hat [...]
Another note about the petulant one... Can we call him petulant...? Is he petu...? With the following evidence, coupled with his final appearance you could say that. In 2005 a documentary called 'Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait' (French: Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle ) was made about Zidane, it was the idea of Glasgow born artist Douglas Gordon , who years before had seen 'Football As Never Before' (aka Fußball wie noch nie ) which was a documentary about George Best. In that original 1971 doc the filmmaker Hellmuth Costard [...]
"Two club sides, both alike in the prem, In fair Tameside, where we lay our scene, From ancient trudge break to new Moston, Where curry food makes curry bums unclean. For forth the fate lies for one of these foes Repairs of Quay-St cross'd roads take their pipes; Hale misadventured pitted Oldfield Road Do with their Hulme, Bury their parents' Abbey Hey. The fearful passage down the M62 path-mark'd road, And the continuance of their Glazers aimed rage, Which, but their Old Trafford, bought but couldn't remove, Is now [...]
Yes we all know what he did and I'll get to it in a minute, but before that it is with thanks once again to Eric who I've mentioned on here once before...can't find it now but I'm sure... e-rawk . That was it ! e-rawk (as he shall be known and as you should address him if you ever meet him) is the one who always gives me a nod to some legit bands and a link with their music to football. Last time it was Bell and Sebastian, [...]
I'm busy with work elsewhere this week, so please bear with me... Got this email last Thursday but it's taken me until now to get around to actually posting something. Because of the company involved, (I was never fond on BT when I was in Blighty and the irony now being that my phone service provider here is via another monopoly) . Plus the fact that we don't do adverts on Footie and Music (it's pronounced the same way Trev & [...]
- VOTE NOW - Thank you once again to those of you who took the time to vote for your favourite song. A great turn out and as I said the other week this competition is hotting up. Lots of votes with the result going 56% for one and 44% for the other. So then who was the victor from Round 5 ...? Well that would be... God Save Our Team [...]
This is the last of the posts looking at the FA Cup Semi-Finalists. (Just told somebody that F&M don't do adverts and then I go and add this image...) I've got nothing at all to say about Chelski. Nothing. I've said in the other post that I really don't think, unless their back four go to sleep, Aston Villa will exact any revenge for their 7-1 drubbing inflicted upon them [...]
This is the 3rd post in a mini-series looking at this year's FA Cup Semi-Finalists. You know that despite themselves, Spurs have done pretty well this season. My evidence of this ? Well I'm glad you asked... Despite the comedy stylings of Heurelho Gomes (who Redknapp doesn't like) and despite Ledley King only able to play when the wind is blowing from the southeast at 2 knots. Even with Robbie Keane (who 'urry up doesn't like) being shipped off to [...]
This is the 2nd post in a mini-series looking at this year's FA Cup Semi-Finalists. A couple of weeks ago they bent over and asked; "Please sir may I have one more...?" I was tempted to do a photoshopped pic of O'Neill over a desk with Ancelotti giving him a thorough paddling. And this coming Saturday they will be at Wembley to face Chelsea once again, [...]
It is with thanks (once again) to The Vinyl Villain for partly being the inspiration for me to start this Football and Music website, for posting some great music that I missed the first time around, and for the PAUL HAIG DAY II event. It is also thanks to Pat Nevin for giving me a fitba & music connection so I could take part in this day. Plus it gives me an additional excuse to post more about the man and his excellent taste in music. [...]
This is a mini-series looking at the four contenders for the title of the biggiest, bestiest, goodliest... [stop all that] ... sorry, the teams playing in the FA Cup Semi Finals this coming weekend. Starting us off is a send off for an FA Cup winner only two seasons ago... But now have fallen upon... well I don't need to expand on that, everyone knows of their current plight. Which some have pointed fingers and accused a certain ex-manager of being a party to [...]
- VOTE NOW - The poll has closed for Round 4 and well... things are getting interesting now. In the first few rounds there was a small interest/participation, but this last round saw some real competition between the two candidates. After the first day of the post & poll appearing for round 4 there were three votes. At that time it was 2-1 in favour of... One of the competitors, and then it really started to heat up when fans [...]
So you are sitting there thinking to yourself: 'Just how far would they go ? I know there's the unholy trinity of football and Crimbo music, but did anybody actually go one further and take on Easter...?' Well let me tell you... No, nobody has. So far at least. Ah I got you there, early April Fools. But there could be some singing from Norwich City this Easter weekend. If they grab a win this [...]
You may have read reports that directly after West Ham's defeat to Stoke last Saturday, Gianfranco Zola immediately flew back to Sardinia to consider his future. Well that wasn't the case. The real reason was because Paolo, the bloke who was running his side business for him was sick and Gianfranco went to cover for him. So if you were in the bar at the airport Holiday Inn in Cagliari on Sunday night, you might have seen "Francesco" (as he likes to call himself when belting out a few numbers to get the crowd warmed up) providing your [...]
This is probably more Vinyl Villain than Football and Music , but I did all the legwork so... A couple of weeks ago I was puzzled to as to why there was a sudden interest in this Pat Nevin post . As you can see to the right it's No. 1 on the popular posts. So I did a quick google and found out why. [...]
You may have guessed from the last couple of posts I am a big Sidebottom fan. Frank is like @stephenfry , in that he's a Manchester treasure at least... Mr Sidebottom used to have his own telly show on the late lamented Channel M , but can still be seen on Timperley TV . Plus he will return to broadcasting from April 11th with another run of Radio Timperley via Manchester Radio Online . As you can tell by now [...]
- VOTE NOW - Round 3 winner is... God Save Our Team - A recap of their song: - Link to video This song can be purchased and downloaded via iTunes. - You can find more info [...]
Now here's something you didn't know about Frank Sidebottom: The picture above of him wearing that shirt - it isn't a replica of the team you are thinking about. Have a closer look at that badge . It is of a football club which Frank himself founded. » Timperley Big Shorts F.C. Mr Sidebottom is famously known as being from Manchester but is actually from Timperley , which is a real place within Altrincham. If you want to generalise, yes it is [...]
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