Tim: Proving that football isn’t just for blokes, the Women’s World Cup has apparently arrived, and the Swedish have got a theme song. Sung by a bloke, which somewhat spoils it, but never mind.
Tom: Now, let’s be honest: no matter what, this can’t compare to the definitive World Cup song, Three Lions. That song’s got so deep into the footballing world that even the German fans sing it. (I was in the same train carriage as a group of them once.)
Tim: Drei Löwen auf dem Hemd, und noch Jules Rimet strahlend, ja?
Tom: Oh, you totally ran that through Google Translate.
Tim: Anyway, with expectations duly lowered – let’s have a listen to this.
Tim: I really like this. I wasn’t sure to start with about the staccato style of music (get me being all technical), but it gives it a whole ‘yeah, let’s get out and do this thing and win it’ that presumably it’s meant to have.
Tom: Now, personally I can’t hear the crowd chanting “One! Love! One Love One Goal”, but they’ve had a bloody good effort at making a song that’s part-football-chant. I can’t see it taking off, but full marks for effort.
Tim: BETTER ENDING: a key change for just the very last ‘goal’, and extend it a bit, instead of just going back to the usual one.
Oh, and remember Melanie C, the second-most-successful soloist out of the Spice Girls? Turns out she’s done the actual official song.
Tom: That’s… nothing to do with football at all.