December 26 - Sheffield’s succesful World Cup city bid has been celebrated at Hillsborough today with a performance by Eliot Kennedy (pictured).
Football legends joined him at the Owls Coca-Cola Championship league match against Newcastle United, to sing World At Your Feet.
Kennedy, who has written and produced for superstars including Bryan Adams and Take That, wrote Sheffield’s official World Cup bid song.
It was part of campaign which convinced the Football Association to choose Sheffield to host World Cup matches, if England now wins the chance to stage the competition, in 2018.
Hillsborough was named as one of 17 successful grounds earlier this month, controversially ahead of Bramall Lane, the home of arch-rivals Sheffield United.
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