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Talking of sporting music, the Chris Willock chant has become an ear worm. I keep finding myself going da da da, da-da-da-da Chrissy Willock as I'm wandering round the house. The cats look a bit confused ðŸ±.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 10:40 - Nov 22 with 2018 views
Sport on 2 music always brings back memories of the 70’s when the only midweek football fix other than a home game kicking off at 7.30pm was listening to the second half of European matches on Radio 2 when they would change the commentator midway through the half.
Spedeworth Stock car & banger racing in the 1970s at White City or Wimbledon. The smell of petrol, burning rubber, hot dogs & onions, and this being played through the tinny concourse speakers. Simple pleasures...never topped.
Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 10:46 - Nov 22 by loftboy
Sports night wins it for me.
Spot on! The morse-code theme, the blaring brass, the foot-stomping finale - and Harry Carpenter winking at you afterwards because he knew the scores and you didn't.
ITV Boxing second - great theme, and guaranteed thrills coming up.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 11:45 - Nov 22 with 1883 views
Me too Brian, getting into the clubhouse having just finished our match to get the final results, takes me right back to my younger days when I hear it even now some 25-30 years later!
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 11:58 - Nov 22 with 1861 views
First time i would have heard this is when we Played first division Wolves at home in the League cup 1979. Drew 1-1 . Can't recall who scored for us, i'm guessing willie carr or John Richards for them.
The reason i remember is that we were never selected to be the commentary game on radio so the old man East Ham Dave bought me a transistor radio from green street market especially for the game. Those were the days my friends.
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Don't need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn't be,
Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 12:19 - Nov 22 with 1817 views
Er just realized some of our younger posters have probably never heard of Its A Knockout... This is what Friday evenings where like, growing up in the 70's...
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 12:31 - Nov 22 with 1780 views
Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 12:19 - Nov 22 by Rs_Holy
Er just realized some of our younger posters have probably never heard of Its A Knockout... This is what Friday evenings where like, growing up in the 70's...
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One for the Kids...
Peter Gabriel 'Games without frontiers it's a Knockout'.
jeux sans frontières.
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Don't need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn't be,
Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 13:41 - Nov 22 with 1693 views
heading back to the pub after the game, Joe would have a little radio held close to his ear to get the full-times. when the tune was played, he'd grab you by the elbow and start some mad dance in the middle of the street!
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 13:57 - Nov 22 with 1668 views
Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 11:58 - Nov 22 by Discodroids
First time i would have heard this is when we Played first division Wolves at home in the League cup 1979. Drew 1-1 . Can't recall who scored for us, i'm guessing willie carr or John Richards for them.
The reason i remember is that we were never selected to be the commentary game on radio so the old man East Ham Dave bought me a transistor radio from green street market especially for the game. Those were the days my friends.
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Listening to that match is my first memory of listeing to us on the radio.
I'm still gutted we conceded in the last minute, just as the commentator (I forget his name but he was the main one for the BBC*) said that any moment now they will hear the cheering all the way across Shepherd's Bush.
*Peter Jones. Just looked him up. Those were the days.
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Suffering since 1978.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 08:54 - Nov 23 with 1411 views
Thinking about this, a couple that didn't get a mention... Something or other by Enya, that was the theme to Channel 4's short-lived GAA highlights show. I used to love that programme, in the days before satellite, the only way to see any apart from watching VHS in a pub. Hilariously missed the only goal in an All-Ireland hurling final from their edit though. David Byrne and Brian Eno's "Jezebel Spirit", which was used for (at least) the ad break music for C4's American Football show, can't remember if it was also the main theme. That was a genuinely great album, though subsequently sanitised.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 09:20 - Nov 23 with 1393 views
Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 11:58 - Nov 22 by Discodroids
First time i would have heard this is when we Played first division Wolves at home in the League cup 1979. Drew 1-1 . Can't recall who scored for us, i'm guessing willie carr or John Richards for them.
The reason i remember is that we were never selected to be the commentary game on radio so the old man East Ham Dave bought me a transistor radio from green street market especially for the game. Those were the days my friends.
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Clive Allen for us (free-kick IIRC) , Kenny Hibbit for them. Still gutted now. My first experience of real last-minute heartache....
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 09:33 - Nov 23 with 1383 views
Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 11:58 - Nov 22 by Discodroids
First time i would have heard this is when we Played first division Wolves at home in the League cup 1979. Drew 1-1 . Can't recall who scored for us, i'm guessing willie carr or John Richards for them.
The reason i remember is that we were never selected to be the commentary game on radio so the old man East Ham Dave bought me a transistor radio from green street market especially for the game. Those were the days my friends.
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that wolves match was the 2nd QPR game I ever attended but the day I fell in love with the club... My Dad worked with the son of the Head Steward at Loftus Road and he asked if Dad wanted 2 tickets for the game. We went the match and whilst waiting outside said Head Steward asked if I wanted to go to the pitch side and see the players warming up. We went to the side of the pitch and I when we went back in I saw Clive Allen poke his head out of the QPR dressing room and I shook hands with Don Shanks and Ernie Howe as they arrived ... the rest as they say is history.
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Top 40 Sporting Theme Tunes on 11:30 - Nov 23 with 1328 views
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