LEICESTER TIGERS
DERBY DAYS come with their own rhythm, their own patter. Syncopated by hits, bouts of shoving and bawled instructions, there’s a lot going on. To compete with Tigers v Saints, any game-day playlist over the stadium speakers must surely be selected to match in-play intensity?
As we discover to our delight, though, standing up in the control tower at Leicester’s Welford Road, the musical choices there are a little bit random.
It should be caveated that for a game like this, held in Covid times and with no fans allowed into the ground, there are not many folk around to listen to it. But there is something swell about Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode getting chased hard by Smells Like Teen Spirit and then The Beatles telling us immediately afterwards that they want to hold our hand. The final say, we are told, comes down to whoever is in control of the sound system that day and as long as some loose guidelines are adhered to –
