It’s a great feeling when the World Cup begins to take over your television schedule, with games and highlights shown almost constantly across the BBC and ITV.
The theme tunes used by the two broadcasters become implanted into your brain for the course of the summer – though that’s not always a good thing.
We’ve taken a look at every BBC and ITV intro since 1990 and ranked them from a disappointing worst to an incredibly memorable best.
18. Germany 2006 – BBC
Most of the intros nod to the heritage of each hosting country as well as hinting at the history of the competition. This effort from the BBC manages neither and could hardly be any less rousing.
17. Italy 1990 – ITV
Some things age well. Others do not. The differently balls randomly scrolling across the screen make this look like a Windows 97 screensaver – though it does have the bizarre highlight of Caesar’s statue heading a ball.
16. USA 1994 – BBC
We’re getting there with some shots of America and some clips, but the fact it’s all weirdly interspersed with dog noises – presumably as a nod to mascot Striker the Dog – make this extremely odd and just downright wrong.
15. Russia 2018 – BBC
Some nice shots of Russia but the music is curiously lightweight. They should have gone with the fantastic trailer instead.
14. Qatar 2022 – BBC
A forgettable effort from the BBC this year, although the animation is impressive enough.
13. South Africa 2010 – BBC
Maybe this is a little harsh, but as the digital age progresses we’d expect better than this from the BBC, although the music is decent.
12. France 1998 – ITV
Finally we’ve got some decent visual efforts from ITV, which see this higher up on our list than it otherwise would have been.
Relevant shots of recognisable French landmarks are interspersed with some smart cartoon-to-real life clips.
11. Germany 2006 – ITV
Speaking of music, this is perfect. The general consensus seems to be using music as a link to the host country, but there’s no need for that in ITV’s rousing title sequence from…
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