Music and football

In the first of our soon to be regular installments on this themes, we present to you Mark E.. Smith, legendary front man for enduring Manchester rockers the Fall reading the classified results for the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/score_on_bbci/4450760.stm

Click on the link to the right entitled 'Rock legend reads the football scores ' for the video and audio content.

The Fall were of course named after one of the novels by our muse Albert Camus. Smith, a Manchester City fan has also written a football related song entitled Theme From Sparta FC , originally released on the album entitled 'The real new Fall lp'. The track has been used as the theme music for the BBCs score show.