I think it’s pretty funny that We Are Scientists created a football fight song for England instead of their good ‘ol USA soccer team. (maybe it was because of David Beckham) Regardless of what team they root for, the track, “Goal! England,” has all the trademark sounds of the group, is incredibly catchy and has a wicked guitar solo in it. If I was England I would love to hear it anytime I ran onto the field.
Don’t forget to check out the band latest LP, Barbara.
enjoY!
We Are Scientists – Goal! England!
This song is great – Thanks for posting (although I think Andy Burrows is now the drummer so you have an old photo up!)
thanks for the tip
The footballers who supported the bans on playing for dummy ‘multi-racial’ teams during the apartheid era. The heroes of the African game who deployed their prowess on the dusty township football parks (you could hardly call them stadiums). Often accompanied by choirs of fans singing their hearts out, and not the obvious borrowed-from-Britain anthems and hymns (ironically, the mound occupied by the Liverpool choir at Anfield was an abbreviation of the Afrikaans word for hill — ‘kopje’) who mixed their adulation for the players with some rousing calls to arms in the struggle for freedom, most of which were not understood by the authorities, who rarely went to black football games during the apartheid era.