There was a time—a simpler, more innocent time—when football and the pop charts were inextricably linked. Every May, the teams who reached the FA Cup final would release a hit to go along with it.
This performance by Cockney songsters Chas & Dave and the 1987 Tottenham Hotspur squad on the iconic BBC children's show Blue Peter was what passed for normal at the time.
Every World Cup would come with a song from the England squad. Occasionally they would be touched by genuine musical greatness. More often they would most definitely not.