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| 'No World Cup song', FA confirms | 'No World Cup song', FA confirms |
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| The FA has confirmed that, for the first time since 1966, there will be no official song to mark England's World Cup campaign in South Africa. | The FA has confirmed that, for the first time since 1966, there will be no official song to mark England's World Cup campaign in South Africa. |
| According to an FA spokesman, the England management "want to be fully focused on the football". | According to an FA spokesman, the England management "want to be fully focused on the football". |
| Several unofficial anthems have been rumoured, including a reworking of 1990's World in Motion by New Order. | Several unofficial anthems have been rumoured, including a reworking of 1990's World in Motion by New Order. |
| Peter Hook, co-author of World in Motion, said an anthem was not a distraction and "enhanced patriotism". | |
| Hook was the bassist in New Order, whose members wrote World in Motion. | |
| He told the BBC that the band members were not big football fans at the time of writing the World Cup song but it helped them get behind the team. | |
| "I don't think it took people's minds off things," he said. "If anything, I think it focussed you more." | |
| The 2006 World Cup song, World At Your Feet by Embrace, charted at number three after a lukewarm response. | The 2006 World Cup song, World At Your Feet by Embrace, charted at number three after a lukewarm response. |
| UK punk singer Jimmy Pursey, frontman of Sham 69, who recorded their own World Cup song the same year, branded Embrace's track "embarrassing". | UK punk singer Jimmy Pursey, frontman of Sham 69, who recorded their own World Cup song the same year, branded Embrace's track "embarrassing". |
| There were also efforts from Tony Christie and Crazy Frog. | There were also efforts from Tony Christie and Crazy Frog. |
| The previous World Cup song, in 2002 was recorded by TV presenters Ant and Dec. | |
| In 1998, The Spice Girls sang (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World, written by Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch. |