The song was released as a single on 7 June 2010[1] and appears on Fishel's 2013 debut album Not Thinking Straight.

[6] The video also features two actors playing Fishel's younger self (Ryan Sampson) and the footballer referred to in the song's lyrics.

[7][8][9] British actor and celebrity tweeter Stephen Fry publicly praised the song and video on Twitter, causing it to become a "YouTube sensation".

[10] Laurence Watts of Pink News said "Football Song" had "echoes of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing...It's an uplifting tune, worthy of chart-toppers like The Feeling.

[11] According to the album sleeve notes,[2] "Football Song" was written, produced, arranged, engineered and mixed by Fishel at Superfishel Studios, UK.