A TEENAGE girl band from Abingdon has recorded an alternative World Cup anthem from a female point of view.

The Englandettes are Pippa Siret-Godfrey, Sarah King, 19, Senga Horsman, 18, and Hanna Smith, 19, who all met at the town’s John Mason School.

They recorded the vocals for Play that Sexy Football after Pippa’s mum, Lucy Siret, 46, and her bandmates, Charlie McGlynn and Maria Hunter, wrote the song and recorded the backing track.

Ms King said: “All the football songs are male, big man, shouty songs, so we thought that girls should have their own one.

“It is basically about the fact that girls always support the football team and they want the boys to bring the cup home.

“Girls should be able to relate to it because it is all about our own way of supporting. It is a girl power kind of thing; it gets the girls involved.

“I am forced to watch the normal stuff with my boyfriend, but England means something because it’s where I am from.

“It will be interesting to see what happens as we are just four young girls trying something out. Nobody has ever really done it before. We are not expecting it to be massive. It is just a bit of fun. But we have had quite a few downloads already without any promotion.”

Pippa Siret-Godfrey said: “It’s the right time of year to bring out something like this, but it is just a bit of fun really. It is about the girls taking control and chanting and supporting the boys. We are just backing them up and that is about it really.”

Mr McGlynn said: “We sat down one night, had two glasses of wine and thought we would do a song. We put together this song about the girls’ point of view of supporting England.

“We put the song together, but we thought we really need a girl band for this, and Lucy said her daughter was in a band.”

The song is available on iTunes for 79p.