‎‘Football's 47 Best Worst Songs’ review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 • Letterboxd
Football's 47 Best Worst Songs

Football's 47 Best Worst Songs ★★★½

Ostensibly a primer from the Dave Channel to get audiences warmed up for the forthcoming World Cup in Russia, Football's 47 Best Worst Songs was nonetheless in its own right an enjoyable trip down memory lane for those of us who remain somewhat ambivalent to the tournament.

It was your standard list show fare; a host of largely non entity talking heads (one of whom went by the name 'Steve the Madman' and was referred to as a 'social media celebrity' Um, what?) mix with recognisable faces (Bob Mortimer, Keith Allen and a clutch of English footballing greats like Lineker, Barnes and Waddle) to offer up opinions in an enjoyable clips package of all those ill advised world cup and FA cup anthems from the last forty or so years.

Just occasionally however, we were reminded of the times when football and music came together in perfect harmony (more often than not these times involved Keith Allen, who penned World in Motion, England's Irie and Vindaloo) and I think the best time that happened was the 1990s. Think about it; Collapsed Lung, Fat Les, Black Grape, New Order, Baddiel and Skinner and the Lightning Seeds, and Suggs (for Chelsea) squaring up against Bob Mortimer and Chris Rea (representing Middlesborough) for the 1997 FA Cup anthem battle....

Happy days.

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