"Watch Your House for Ireland"
One-sheet advertisement
Single by Coca-Cola Official Irish Team
Released1994
Recorded1994
StudioDublin[1]
GenreNovelty
Length3:45
LabelRCA Records

"Watch Your House for Ireland" is a song by the 1994 Republic of Ireland football squad, sponsored by Coca-Cola and with lead vocals by Christy Dignam. It was made for Ireland's 1994 World Cup campaign. The song reached the number one position in the Irish Singles chart in 1994 in the week it was released.[2] The proceeds went to the GOAL charity.[3]

Lyrics

Watch your house was an idiom used in Irish soccer circles, meaning "watch your back." The song featured a famous chant from the Irish defeat of England in UEFA Euro 1988: "What's the score? Up one-nil! Are you listening, Jimmy Hill?"[4]

Reception

Balls.ie described the song as "divisive,"[5] while RTÉ described it as "flaccid" and "dull, dull, dull!"[6]

References

  1. ^ Thornley, Yseult; Lynch, Edmund (16 August 2001). RTÉ 100 Years: Ireland in the 20th Century. TownHouse and CountryHouse [with RTÉ]. ISBN 9781860591426 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "The Irish Charts - Facts & Figures - Straight In at Number 1". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  3. ^ Thornley, Yseult; Lynch, Edmund (20 November 2017). RTÉ 100 Years: Ireland in the 20th Century. TownHouse and CountryHouse [with RTÉ]. ISBN 9781860591426 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Williams, Tom (10 May 2018). Do You Speak Football?: A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472947208 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Neville, Conor. "Rank The Ireland Pre-Tournament Songs In Order From Best To Worst".
  6. ^ "The best (and worst) Irish football songs EVER!". 8 June 2016.


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