Noble Englishman England World Cup team theme tune by Rik Mayall.
For this 2014 World Cup, there is no official England team theme. We guess as the team and expectations for winning the WC are low and realistic.
During our walk around locally with our dog diesel we have seen a few England flags draped from windows, but not as many as previous World Cups.
Anyway a popular and unofficial theme has been found as a tribute as sadly this week one of our comic genius’ Rik Mayall passed away at only 56 years of age. I enjoyed laughing at his manic antics in BBC’s “The Young Ones” and “Bottom.”
He was also brilliant as the slippery, odious and ambitious at all costs politician in ” The New Statesman.” Hmm..he was an amalgam of real-life politicians. 😉
Rik also guest appeared in several episodes of the brilliant and clever historical and hysterical funny “Blackadder” comedy series with Rowan(Mr Bean) Atkinson.
This video made by Rik some years ago in 2010, has now been adopted as the 2014 England World cup team theme..brilliant and a fitting tribute.
Rik invokes Shakespeare’s Henry V the bulldog spirit which the English and British have been known to display. We hope the England team do well, they a have a tough group but have talented younger players are coming through and we shall see how they perform on footballs biggest stage.
With this fuss about his video coming back, Rik would no doubt be telling us all to “f**k off.” 😉
RIP as much as your frenetic energy and humour will allow Rick. 🙂