Football and music

Pat Nevin introduces Camera Obscura
(originally uploaded by cadd)

Football supporters were always notorious for their bad taste in music. It was always very depressing when the matchday programs had those player profile questionaires...

Politics: Tory

Meal: Steak and chips

Superstitions: None (touch wood)

Music: Luther Vandross

It was always the same - until pat Nevin mentioned listening to The Cocteau Twins on a bus to the Chelsea training ground. It was such a relief that there was one (and it may well have been just one) player who had half-decent taste in music.

In 2005 Gaizka Mendieta (of Middlesborough) became only the second (to my knowledge) cool footballer when he mentioned Luna in an interview in the Sunday Times.