It’s a tale as old as time. Take one 16-year-old video game, a rising indie-folk band and a League One football team and what do you get? <\/p>\n
A new football anthem for Wycombe Wanderers, courtesy of the unlikely figures of Irish chart-toppers Kingfishr, whose singer was the special guest under the Tuesday night lights of the club’s Adams Park stadium this week.<\/p>\n
It’s a strange musical connection that came about in a way avid fans of sports video games can understand<\/a> – via Fifa 11, a game the band said they started playing while recording their second album.<\/p>\n The band adopted Wycombe Wanderers as their team in the game and eventually posted a song for the club, which has racked up more than 190,000 views on TikTok, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n The club caught wind of the song, written in an Irish folk style and with a lyrical focus on “the Wycombe wanderer, wandering away” and replied to the original post by saying: “You can wander our way anytime.”<\/p>\n So it came that lead singer Eddie Keogh took up the offer on Tuesday night, as first reported by Irish sports site Balls.ie, external<\/a>, and attended the club’s 4-1 EFL Trophy victory over Bristol Rovers. <\/p>\n The song was even playing over the tannoy as he arrived, to the singer’s shock as demonstrated by his “what is going on?” post to TikTok, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n The club invited him onto the pitch where he was presented with his own club shirt with ‘Kingfishr 1’ on the back.<\/p>\n