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Roy Keane objects to Abba, but what should players listen to before matches?

Keane says he was ‘really worried’ when he discovered his Sunderland team listened to Dancing Queen in the dressing room but what music would motivate footballers before a match?
  
  

Michael Ochs
‘Get that shit off.’ Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/abba

Roy Keane’s laid-back, relaxed new book includes some special praise for Sunderland’s pre-match changing-room mood-music: “The last song before the players went on to the pitch was Dancing Queen by Abba. They were going out to play a match, men versus men, testosterone levels were high. You’ve got to hit people at pace. Fuckin’ ‘Dancing Queen.’ It worried me.”

So what, then, is the best pro-testosterone dressing-room music? Pep Guardiola reckoned Coldplay’s Viva La Vida (“a sophisticated piece of grandiose orchestration”) gave Barcelona an edge. Manchester City tried Adele, half a dozen other clubs like Insomnia, and Rio Ferdinand had his own special Rio Ferdinand mix-tape at United, which purported to covered the whole musical spectrum: “There’s a bit of Kanye West on there, Lil Wayne and stuff like that, so that everyone in the changing room is happy.”

Any more suggestions for pre-match changing room music?

 

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