Oh, Oh, The music there, the sound of the BBC in 1982 and their World Cup coverage.

You are listening to Top Flight Time Machine, except it isn't. It is World Cup. top flight time machine

except it isn't it is World Cup time machine with myself Andy Dawson and him Sam Delaney indeed that was the 1980 music for the BBC and it was I think it was an Andrew Lloyd Webber composition.

Are you serious? Yeah. Well we are of course going to talk throughout this podcast today.

We're going to look back on the main

19-82 World Cup in Spain and it's interesting you say that because I

listened to that and thought well the main problem that is there's that doesn't

sound Spanish no didn't it it doesn't sound Spanish I didn't and I'm an Andrew Lloyd Webber is a

terrible choice of composer for a world cup song but you know it wasn't really

until 1990 that the BBC and subsequently I TV up their game

when it came to the intro music because of Nesam Dorma and that was so powerful and

in raptured the audiences to such a degree that since then they've tried but it sounds to me like they just made a generic

theme tune that could have applied to any sport I mean it could have almost been the you know it could have been the theme

tune to the gentle touch yeah it needed some more of a flamenco influence didn't

it needed like castanets and that kind of thing or demsy and matepiece it could sound like. Yeah, Castanets, some Spanish guitar,

all that sort of stuff. We've chosen that one as the intro for this podcast and the I TV one

we're going to end the podcast with because in our

opinion it's even worse so you know you pay your money and you get disappointed

so it's the World Cup 1982 this is the first World Cup that I properly remember.

What vague memories of 78 Argentina, but this is the first one I can remember being properly

immersed in. Yeah. Panini stickers.

Panini stickers. Oh yeah, Panini stickers. Paneini stickers.

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