It’s time for your patience to be rewarded. I’ve finally found time to continue writing my blog and it’s time to introduce rank no. 5 in the best football song countdown – “seven songs to glory”.
This time the song it more up-tempo with a break beat you will all recognize. It is based on the 80’s hit single ‘Come on Eileen from Dexys Midnight Runners, which peek to the pole position of the charts as the biggest-selling song of 1982 in the UK and knocked Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ off the top of the US-Charts, when it peaked in the states. The original song does not have much of a deeper meaning and is based on a relatively simple background story. Eileen was has girl, whom the songwriter and lead-singer Kevin Rowland grew up with as a kid. Around the age of 13 puberty kicked in and Rowland started to see his childhood friend Eileen in a completely different light. Their relationship soon became romantic. Looking back today the song describes the thin line between lust and love.
Rank 5
The video starts off with David Beckham scoring a free-kick in the last game of group qualification against Greece. He scored in the 92nd minute, which tied the game at 2-2 and gave England a last-minute ticket to the World Cup 2002 in Japan/South Korea. The cover-version of the Dexys Midnight Runners song by the band '442' was released in 2004 in the run-up to the EUROs in Portugal. And even though, the England supporters probably only remember David Beckham shooting the deciding penalty way over the bar in the Quarter-Finals against the host Portugal, this song remains as a ‘catchy’ glimpse of hope.
Also the question it leaves open is timeless: ‘When will England be able to take their game [relationship] to the next level?’
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