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Did World In Motion change English football?
Posted by applesauce on 4 June 2010 - 12:57pm.
20 years on, did New Order's World In Motion change the face of English football, or even football in general? This article argues it encouraged fans to love the game again, and helped kickstart the Premier League / Sky revolution. Best ever football record, anyway.
http://www.stuffbypaulbrown.com/how-world-in-motion-changed-english-foot...
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It isn't the best ever football record...
this is... Edric Connor's Manchester United Calypso.
I'm not in the least convinced
His rose tinted recollection of Italia 90 ignores David Platt's last minute winner against Belgium. Without that, who knows what would have happened?
I was unable to post this at work, earlier.
The match would have gone to penalties.
What's not good
is John Barnes rendition for Mars - what a piss poor ad that is.
I think it's overrated..
World In Motion is a decent enough tune but it seems people feel duty-bound to declare it the best football song ever, just *because* it's New Order.
I personally think the original Three Lions is far superior - a truly brilliant, era defining song, with great lyrics. Still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I hear it now.
1988/89
That season was already seeing a change in English football, well before Italia 90 and World In Motion. Remember the inflatables craze? Going to the match that season was fun again. There was a different atmosphere on the terraces, there really was.