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What an awful record. It meanders, it's wussy and it's sleep inducing - much like the England team. The FA should be congratulated for getting at least one thing right this summer.

Rating: 1 out of 5

FIRST HALF GOOD:
I love the single. As people have said it is a 'grower' and stands up as a single on its own rather than just being a football anthem, it should be a great listen for years.
Recent "football anthems" seem to date rather quickly with chants about the England squad, which I feel make the 'songs' feel out of date a few years down the line when these players are barely remembered or have been ridiculed by the nation. (Who wants to remember players like Emile Heskey was the best our country could offer?)

World at you feet side steps that problem as it is a song in its own right and will be played for some years.

It isn't "Three Lions" - but it is good and there is always room for more good sports anthems.



NOW THE BAD: (as of 14th June 2006)
The Track Listings for the above item are listed incorrectly, as are the listings for the other CD2 that is also listed on Amazon.
According to the Official Embrace website the listing are as follows:
CD 1 - 1. World At Your Feet
2. Celebrate

CD 2 - 1. World At Your Feet
2. Love Order
3. Whatever It Takes
4. World At Your Feet (Video)

So choose carefully. Hopefully these details can be altered.




Rating: 3 out of 5

I was really not impressed by this at all. There's nothing particularly memorable about it. I can't see the fans singing it in years to come like they do with three lions. You watch england matches today you still here the words 'Football's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming home it's coming, footballs coming home' roaring round the stadium. This has not got a really good chant that fans can sing repeatedly. It'll take a lot to beat Three Lions as it was such a classic.

Rating: 1 out of 5

This is an all round great release by Embrace with a fantastic song in World at Your Feet, a song that gets you stomping along, be it for football reasons, relationship issues or just whether it's a nice day where the sun is shining and life feels great.
While World at Your Feet is the official World Cup song for the England Football team, as already indicated, its' meaning transcends much more than that.
Indeed, its endorsement by the Football Association has very much brought Embrace into the national conscience but its musical and lyrical genius will ensure that it is long remembered for more than being the official World Cup song!
Not only that but the 2x cd and 7" vinyl releases incorporate 4 quality b-sides in Celebrate (cd 1), Love Order, Whatever It Takes (cd 2) not forgetting What Lies Behind Us from the 7" vinyl Ltd Picture Disc.
Celebrate is of course taken from the number 1 album, This New Day which itself is an exceptional follow up to 2004's number 1 and even greater album, Out Of Nothing. A tune that soars majestically, Celebrate is the perfect advocate of that album and of course its theme is well in tune with the fact it is part of the Official World Cup release.
The remaining b-sides are right up there with the very best of Embrace and it is perhaps the song, Whatever It Takes that shines head and shoulders above the rest to the extent it leaves you thinking that it could have been the A-side. Indeed, within an instant of that very listen it strikes you that here is a song that is just vintage, classic Embrace.
Overall the B-sides more than accompany World at Your Feet, they combine to appeal to and stoke up the euphoric heartfelt emotion that the World Cup induces as well as giving their fans more reason to be proud of their fine band.
It is apparent that Embrace have seized the opportunity presented to them wholeheartedly in being asked to provide an official World Cup song for the English National team.
By producing the quality that they have with this release, Embrace have given a great account of themselves, delivering once more to high expectations!
Can England return the favour?


Rating: 5 out of 5

How refreshing to hear a World Cup song that will still be a great track in its own right well after the summer's festivities are over. Embrace have written an amazing song which is supported by b sides that are among the best they have written.

By far the greatest of this summer's World Cup offerings.

Rating: 5 out of 5