TFTM Gold: World Cup 1982
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. I'm not The music there, the sound of the BBC in 1982 and their World Cup coverage. |
| 0:58.6 | You are listening to Top Flight Time Machine, except it isn't. |
| 1:04.1 | It is World Cup Time Machine with myself Andy Dawson and him. |
| 1:08.2 | Sam Delaney. |
| 1:09.2 | Indeed. That was the 1982 music for the BBC and it was, I think it was an Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| 1:14.4 | composition. |
| 1:14.9 | Are you serious? |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.1 | Well, we are, of course, going to talk throughout this podcast today. |
| 1:19.4 | We're going to look back on the 1982 World Cup in Spain. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's interesting you said that because I listened to that and thought, well, the main problem that is it doesn't sound Spanish. |
| 1:31.4 | No, it didn't do it. |
| 1:32.1 | It doesn't sound Spanish. |
| 1:33.2 | I didn't. |
| 1:33.5 | And Andrew Lloyd Webber is a terrible choice of composer for a World Cup song. |
| 1:38.9 | But you know, it wasn't really until 1990 that the BBC and subsequently ITV up their game when it came to the intro music because of Nesson Dorma. |
| 1:50.5 | And that was so powerful and enraptured the audiences to such a degree that since then they've tried. |
| 1:55.7 | But it sounds to me like they just made a generic theme tune that could have applied to any sporting. 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? It needed, like, castanets and that kind of thing. Or Dempsey and Mate Piece, it could sound like. Yeah. Castanets, some Spanish guitar, all that sort of stuff. |
| 2:18.5 | Well, we've chosen that one as the intro for this podcast, and the ITV one we're going |
| 2:22.7 | to end the podcast with, because in our opinion, it's even worse. |
| 2:26.4 | So, you know, it pays your money and you get to disappointed. |
| 2:30.8 | So it's the World Cup, 1982. |
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