From penalties to Pavarotti and Beckham to Bruckner: classical music and football are closer than you might think (opens in new tab)

As the World Cup gets underway, we look at the music that has soundtracked the beautiful game – and the composers who have loved itFrance ’98, when Scotland last faced Morocco at a World Cup – as they do this Friday – and lost a crucial game three-nil. ( rewrites all the recent records and sets the team on a path to almost certain glory this time around. Obviously.)But you could have read the runes of Scottish doom in that World Cup by the tunes that Scotland fans had in their ears. Scotland’...