Danny Nedelko – Idles
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‘My blood brother's Freddie Mercury/A Nigerian mother of three’
Do we really need another Idles song on the playlist? Well, yeah. Today we celebrate that thorny, wondrous thing called immigration with Danny Nedelko, a song that celebrates it in a massive way. Canada’s men’s soccer team, which makes its 2022 World Cup debut today, is a bold quilt of talent born in places ranging from Ghana, to Croatia, Ivory Coast to England and Toronto. And wasn’t it fantastic on Monday when Bukayo Saka and Marcus Rashford – two of the three players subjected to racist abuse after missing penalties in England’s shootout loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final – scored in England’s 6-2 rout of Iran?