Football-inspired music: composers find their perfect pitch

As the World Cup kicks off, so have the novelty records. But the beautiful game has inspired composers from Elgar to NymanOn the first day of the great international kickabout in South Africa, and as a lorry-load of national anthems and novelty records flood the airwaves and the internet, everywhere from South Korea to Spain, it's worth remembering the musical inspiration that the beautiful game has had on composers whose ambitions stretch even further than Chris Waddle's on Top of the Pops. So ...

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