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Those of us unlucky enough to be around at the time of Hoddle and Waddle’s ‘Diamond Lights’ know that sports stars and music do not mix. Here’s a few other ‘notable’ efforts that have left poor fans reaching for their earplugs rather than their iTunes gift voucher.

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

World number one tennis star Caroline Wozniacki released a heavily auto-tuned single called ‘Oxygen’ in 2012.

The stand-out moment is the lyric ‘Boy, you’re my match point’, which was presumably written by someone who’d just received one of Caroline’s 100mph serves to the head. Watching the video the song appears to be a ‘love’ story – in that zero people bought it.

We shouldn’t be too critical, though, as Caroline did do it for charity – and I’m sure they were very grateful for the 3½ euros she raised.

BUBBA WATSON

Two-time Masters winning golfer Bubba Watson has released several songs, usually alongside fellow players Rickie Fowler, Ben Crane and Hunter Mahan. However, in 2014 he released a solo Christmas single under the name ‘Bubba Claus’, imaginatively titled ‘The Single’.

The song’s not a bad effort – even if Bubba does rhyme ‘Dad’ with ‘Baghdad’ but the video does let it down somewhat. I can’t help thinking we’d all be able to guess what we were getting for Christmas if Santa’s sack had ‘PING’ written on the side and a set of woods poking out the top.

NEW ORDER AND THE 1990 ENGLAND WORLD CUP SQUAD

Often considered the best ever football song, New Order’s ‘World in Motion’ for Italia ’90 reached number one that summer.

Everybody remembers John Barnes’s rap – partly because we were shocked they didn’t choose a more obvious candidate to perform it like Peter Beardsley or Dave Beasant.

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WWF WRESTLERS

In 1992 a group of wrestlers including ‘legends’ like ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan, ‘The Undertaker’, Brett ‘Hitman’ Hart and ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage released a record entitled Wrestlemania: The Album.

With songwriting duties taken on by Pete Waterman and the executive producing credit going to Simon Cowell you won’t be surprised to hear it was a bit dross.

However, the single ‘Slam Jam’ proved a hit and stayed in the top ten for five weeks and reached number four – even if it did sound more like number two.

SNOOKER PLAYERS

Tottenham Hotspur’s regular musical collaborators Chas and Dave teamed up with a gang of snooker players under the name ‘The Matchroom Mob’ in 1986 to release ‘Snooker Loopy’.

The brilliant lyrics include ‘Now old Willy Thorne, his hair’s all gone’, which only works as a rhyme when sung in a cockney accent.

Sadly the boys haven’t returned to the studio because any follow-up would surely be more hotly anticipated than the Stone Roses with The Second Coming.