"I'm glad all over Cheap Nike VaporMax Womens , all over again," raps Doc Brown on Crystal Palace's unofficial FA Cup Final song. The Eagles-supporting rapper and comedian has channeled the club's 1990 official cup final single "Glad All Over," updating it with lyrics about Palace's greatest players. It's enough to make you wonder, whatever happened to cup -final songs?
In the 1970s, part of the lead up to the FA Cup Final involved both participating teams releasing a song to do battle on the hit parade before doing battle on the Wembley pitch. From a musical standpoint Cheap Nike VaporMax CS , calling the songs terrible would be being too kind, but there was a charm to how awkward players were on camera in the recording studio as they shifted from side to side.
Everton took awkward shuffling to a new level in the mid-80s when the lads were forced to perform it on prime time TV on Wogan, dancing away in their Le Coq Sportif tracksuits. The Blues went on to lose the final to Manchester United in a game best remembered for being the first to have a player sent off. The only one who looks happy is Andy Gray - and not as Brown says, "the cool black one."
They can blame Chelsea, who set the bar in 1970 with "Blue Is the Color Cheap Nike VaporMax Laceless ," a tune that still rings out at Stamford Bridge as a link between the stylish winners of the odd trophy and the all-conquering Abrahamovic era of today. Similarly, 1981's "Ossie's Dream" reminds Tottenham Hotspur fans of when they were a cup side rather than everyone's favorite underachievers. And all through the medium of Ossie Ardilles being unable to say Tottenham properly.
Foreigners were somewhat of a rarity in English soccer back then, which made accents prime territory for cup final songs. Nowhere more so than 1988's "Anfield Rap," where Liverpool's League of Nations made light of their linguistic differences. The greatest cup final song ever didn't help them, though Cheap Nike VaporMax Flyknit , as they lost to Wimbledon in the greatest-ever upset.
In the '90s, cup -final songs became a -barometer of who would win the game, with relative chart success equating to silverware. In 1994 it was "Come On You Reds" against Chelsea's "No One Can Stop Us Now." Manchester United became the first club to top the charts and then did the double.
Everton's "All Together Now" bettered United's "We're Gonna Do It Again" in 1995, while a year later it was the Manchester side's "Move, Move Cheap Nike VaporMax Black , Move" that outperformed Liverpool's "Pass and Move" before a final as bad as both songs. This spooky run sadly ended with Chelsea vs Middlesbrough in 1997 and "Blue Day" outdoing "Let's Dance".
As we know all too well with the FA Cup, traditions fall out of favor. But the cup final song is one I would pay at least the price of a single to bring back.
MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Most Russians want President Vladimir Putin to remain in office, while some are ready to support any successor backed by Putin, a poll showed Wednesday.
According to the poll conducted by the Moscow-based Levada Center on Aug. 18-22 Cheap Nike VaporMax Off White , 60 percent of the 1,600 Russians surveyed in 48 regions said they would vote for Putin if a presidential election took place on the nearest weekend.
The poll also showed 67 percent of the respondents answered positively to the question "Do you want Putin to head Russia after 2018?"
Meanwhile, 18 percent of the surveyed were ready to support an imaginary presidential candidate made up by the Levada Center, who said Putin backed this candidate.
With inherent restrictions in sociological surveys, it's safe to say that the poll can indicate only one thing www.cheapvapormaxshoes.com , namely absolute trust in Putin and his policies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Russia will hold a presidential election on March 18, 2018. Putin has yet to announce whether he will run for a new term.
Putin, 64, was elected as Russian president in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. He became president again in 2012 after serving as prime minister for four years. He was also Russia's prime minister from 1999 to 2000.
In 2012 Cheap Nike Vapormax Sale , Russia extended its presidential term from four years to six years.
The Levada Center is a Russian non-governmental research organization that regularly conducts sociological polls.
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FREETOWN, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A senior Sierra Leonean health official has commended China's "unprecedented" anti-Ebola efforts in Africa, saying no strings attached to China's assistance.
Dr. Brima Kargbo, the Chief Medical Officer of the country's Ministry of Health Cheap Nike Vapormax Shoes , lauded the "humanitarian and unprecedented assistance" from China to Sierra Leone since the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
Kargbo said the medical experts and the materials from China have contributed "immensely in reversing the disastrous effect of the Ebola scourge".
China has carried out its largest overseas aid program in the health area since the Ebola outbreak, providing several rounds of humanitarian aid with a combined value of more than 120 million U. S. dollars and sending hundreds of medical workers to the African frontline.
Beijing has offered another 10 million dollars in cash to international organizations as part of the global collective efforts in subduing the fatal virus.
The Chinese contribution, he said, came in even before the call by the country's President on the international community for assistance. In addition to sending equipment and protective equipment and ambulances.