Rock band Embrace have been chosen to record England's official football World Cup song.

The Football Association is hoping the song World at Your Feet will become a fans' anthem for the England team at the tournament.

Embrace's Danny McNamara said the band were excited about recording the track and hoped to repeat the success of New Order's 1990 track World in Motion.

The World Cup con-*test*-('") begins in Germany on 9 June.

World in Motion, which featured a number of England players including John Barnes, is considered one of England's best footballing anthems.

'Capture the imagination'

David Baddiel and Frank Skinner's Three Lions song, recorded for Euro 96 as an unofficial anthem, was also a critical and commercial success and was re-released for the World Cup in 1998.

FA marketing manager Tom Harold said: "The official World Cup song has become something of an institution and it is really important that we have an original and exciting track.

"We're confident that Embrace's song will capture the imagination of the fans and players alike."

Founded in Huddersfield, Embrace have been releasing records since 1997 and have released five albums, including their number one debut Good Will Out.

They are currently sitting at number two in the singles chart with Nature's Law, taken from their la-*test*-('") album This New Day.

Evo.. any idea which site we can download this song?

i don't use limewire because it causes me problems!!!

Embrace are fantastic to listen to on CD ............. but have you ever heard them live ???

Fooking awful !!!!!

Let's hope this ones better than Ant & Dick's

You can't! They ain't finished writing it let alone record it

The players will be slicing their wrists listening to Embrace, they are as bad as Coldplay, should of asked Morrissey, it would probably be more up beat.

Alex James and Fat Les' Keith Allen are considering challenging Embrace's official World Cup song.

The pair may also work with Echo And The Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch on a rival anthem.

Blur bassist James is annoyed that such a big occasion is – as he sees it – being wasted with the official choice's World At Your Feet.

"Every winter I forget how cold it gets, and it's like that with every World Cup - you forget how f****ng huge it is," he told NME. "The whole world comes to a halt.

"People have been saying, 'Are you going to do a football record?' and I'm like, 'No', but you start getting a sniff of it," continued the star. "And it's like, 'Embrace?'. I'd do a f****ng better job than that.

"Keith Allen's been calling. I've been thinking about it. And Ian McCulloch's been singing 'Come on, come on, you f****ng England' to the Bryan Ferry song Let's Stick Together.

"You take the backing track from that, stick McCulloch singing 'Come on, come on, you f****ng England!' and Embrace can f****g suck my c***."

Well it received its first air play today, hit or miss?

MISS!