Love how that clip is from Uk Gold 2 And Hoddle looks far more into it than Waddle. The geordie doesnt look like he wants to be there, probably too busy thinking about that pelanty he would sky in Turin.
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Love how that clip is from Uk Gold 2
And Hoddle looks far more into it than Waddle. The geordie doesnt look like he wants to be there, probably too busy thinking about that pelanty he would sky in Turin. -
Whatever possessed them to do it?! I'd love to know how it came about
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Watch that clip from 2 mins 38 seconds - Waddle misses his mime cue and it looks appallingly bad
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Waddle is so funny...just swaying around with his damaged left arm dangling weirdly....and piping up to sing "May daymond lates I'll always want you""
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If we're going to post Diamond Lights then this deserves an airing as well.
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COME ON!A humble guy with healthy desire.Comment
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Didn't they (Hoddle and Waddle) come on and sing that on Blue Peter once?
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Flmao
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Looking back, what did the gentlemen themselves think ?
Well there’s no comments from the Hoddle, but the Waddle has spoken in passing about it.
He was quoted in an Observer article which was taking a look at the spiritual one not long after Spurs dismissed him after a dismal run. In this piece Andrew Anthony looked at if it was Hoddle’s arrogance (in relation to his ‘what you sow you reap’ comment which got him out of the England job) which pretty much doomed him in his managerial career.
Chris Waddle defended his old Spurs and England midfield counterpart:
“…Yet Waddle disputes the popular image of Hoddle as arrogant. ‘It’s not arrogance, it’s confidence. I know people a lot larger than Glenn. I think he’s down to earth. He’s not a centre of attention. He’s not Billy Big Time.’ Waddle thinks that Hoddle has an inner core of self-belief that protects him from the uncertainties that afflict most other mortals. He cites a Top of the Pops performance of ‘Diamond Lights’ – the embarrassing pop record the duo made together in 1987 – as a memorable example of Hoddle’s sang-froid. ‘I was petrified,’ says Waddle, ‘he was confident. He enjoyed it. He’s a positive guy.’
As to what Chris thought of the actual single – The Guardian’s Small Talk caught up with him in 2003, asking him first what music he was listening to at the time:
What was the last record or CD you bought?
“That would have been the Good Charlotte album [Small Talk later checks with its young, heavily-pierced cousin to discover it's that Nu-metal-type business]. I’m getting into them, and blink-182, New Found Glory, Bowling For Soup, that kind of stuff. But I can also listen to something like Simply Red. The only thing I don’t like is reggae and all this rap stuff.”
Odd that you and Glenn opted for the soft-rock balladeering of Diamond Lights, then. Any regrets?
“None at all, but I’m not joking when I say that standing on that stage was more nerve-wracking than taking that pelanty in Turin. I’d sung in the bath and in the car, like everyone does, but to actually stand in front of millions of people on TV and do something you’ve never done at any great level before, well it was absolutely petrifying. It never amazes me how many people remember that record. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone did a cover version of it.”
Gazza, maybe?
“Oh no! Although it might be good if he covered it so people would finally realise that our version wasn’t so bad after all.”
Oh but it was, Chris. What impresses your two kids [boy 9, girl 15] more: Diamond Lights on TOTP, or your achievements as a footballer?
“Well they both spend more time going on about the fact that I once… well… I used to have a mullet.”
Did you really?
“I did, and when they see shots of me at Spurs or Marseille with it long at the back, they just can’t accept that mullets were in back then. I never regretted having one, before you ask. In fact it was funny that after I had mine done, 50% of professional footballers were sporting the same hair style. Same at Marseille, all the crowd copied that hair cut straight away.”
They’re a mad bunch! Returning to Diamond Lights, was there a follow up?
“There was, it was a song called (It’s) Goodbye. Quite fitting really ‘cos Glenn had just left Spurs for Monaco. In my opinion it was a far better song with a video and everything, but then Glenn moved to France and because of the tax reasons he couldn’t come back to promote it. It got shelved, which was a shame, because it was a lot faster and a much better record.”
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it was actually premiered at a spurs v liverpool game, they asked the crowd to guess who it was byComment
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Not sure if it was more shocking then the time Spandau Ballet joined Melchester Rovers.
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Some lovely mullets there.Oh I don't know.Comment
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Just seen the new redknapp Wii advert where Jamie encourages his son to "smash it". No joking!Comment
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