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TRIP OF A LIFETIME: Members of the England team board the plane at Heathrow Airport en route to the World Cup in Mexico
“WE’LL give all we’ve got to give for the folks back home. . .”
50 years ago today, the England World Cup Squad, the reigning champions, released a World Cup song. It would become the first single recorded by a football team to reach number one in the UK chart spawning many imitators down the years from New Order’s World in Motion to Baddiel and Skinner’s Three Lions.
In 1970, it was unheard of for an England squad to record a song, but the 1966 World Cup victory had opened people’s eyes to the potential money to be made from the increased commercialisation of the biggest sporting event in the world.
ASIF BURHAN explores why England v Argentina remains football’s most politically and culturally charged fixture in his new book
Football may not solve the working class’s problems, but it does matter — and politicians know it, writes BERT SHOUWENBURG
ROGER McKENZIE explains why he can’t support this year’s World Cup
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act