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Bad news ladies and gents, the FA has confirmed that there will be no official World Cup song from the England team at this summers contest.

According to an FA spokesman, the killjoy misery guts England management "want to be fully focused on the football." Someone should perhaps tell them that the Brabinator employed a similarly joyless attitude ahead of the play-off final last season, and look what happened to him. Personally I blame Embrace, whose 2006 dirge World at Your Feet was enough to put anyone off football-related music, or music in general, for life. Someone needs to write another World in Motion, and fast.



Hopefully Lingy will have the players all singing from the same songsheet when our league campaign resumes at home to Eastbourne Borough tomorrow. With Hatswell and Saah both suspended, Blaine Hudson looks set to become the latest child to feature in our first team this term, and having seen him in pre-season I have high hopes for the CRC-graduate. I get the impression that Lingy doesn't rate Josh Coulson, and if Hudson impresses I can see him usurping his older colleague in the centre back pecking order.

The Histon circus continues to provide an interesting sideshow following the bizarre press conference given yesterday by Tony Roach. In a speech sure to do wonders for Histon's already dwindling fanbase he somehow managed to blame Steve Y'Know, Gareth Baldwin, the supporters, the local media, The Railway Vue pub, Gordon Brown, and Princess Diana for the current shambles at the Glassworld Stadium. And in an interview packed with contradictions, I particularly liked the bit where he said that Fallon would be allowed to chose his own assistant, then in the next breath added that he'd given the outgoing manager a list conditions of employment, one of which was that he had to keep Alan Lewer. Still, I'm sure he knows what he's doing.