Originally written by Mike Diver · 16 May 2008
This weekend, Saturday May 17, the footballing representatives of the cities of Cardiff and – *spit* – Portsmouth butt heads at Wembley Stadium to contest this season’s FA Cup Final. Never ones to overlook an opportunity to remind readers of the strange relationship between pop music and the beautiful game, here we pick ten soccer… sorry… football-themed (or loosely associated) songs that’ve tickled the charts in recent years. We’d call it a top ten, but that’d suggest we like these songs.
First, though, a little something from the Pompey Sound Squad, pleasantly titled ‘Fuck Southampton’ (ahem), and the official Cardiff City song for this year, ‘Bluebirds Flying High’ by onetime Eurovision hopeful James Fox.
And onto our ten…
No Three Lions? Oh get around the back already. And stay there. Enjoy the kicking tomorrow and Wednesday, readers. We will be.
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