It's the World Cup final today and, according to FIFA at least, over the past month the world has gone football crazy. However the reality has been a little dull and the 2010 World Cup finals have never really taken off. Hopefully today's final between Holland and Spain will lift the spirits with an exhibition of exciting football that'll live long in the memory.
The Devil hopes that it's third time lucky for the Dutch with the winning goal coming from the boot of Dirk Kuyt. The futures bright the futures orange!
To celebrate the final today's post has a football theme, well sort of.
PogFrom: Brighton, United Kingdom
Pog is a minimalistic twee punk band from Brighton formed in 2000 by Paul Stapleton from the disgustingly yet humorously named Anal Beard. They sound like a laid back, English comic version Scottish indie meisters Ballboy or a lo-fi Belle & Sebastian (yes it is possible folks) who don't take themselves too seriously.
Check out their World Cup party pooping song 'Because It's Football'. It's frivolous, it's frothy and it cuts through all the crap and the hype surrounding the beautiful game. It's just over three minutes long and it'll leave you with a smile on your face which is more than the England team managed to achieve in 360 torturous minutes of World Cup action.
Repeat after me 'it's just a fucking game'.
Go Try
MP3 -Pog - Because It's Football
This track is linked direct from the Pog Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright
Go Visit
Pog - Myspace : Website : Last.FM
Go View
Pog
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (REM Cover)
For those who have not yet sampled the delights of ballboy check these out...
MP3 - Ballboy - Sex Is Boring
MP3 - Ballboy - Olympic Cyclist
These tracks are linked direct from the Ballboy website and are therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright