Club stoKe bid to get Delilah bacK in top ten.(News)

FOOTBALL fans have started an internet campaign to get Tom Jones' classic Delilah back into the Top 10.

Stoke City officials say they have held talks with the Welsh pop legend's people in the hope he might re-record the song in time for their FA Cup Final appearance against Manchester City on May 14.

Now, Stoke fans have set up Facebook and Twitter groups to urge people to download it before the final and boost sales. Club folklore has it that back in the 1980s lifelong Stoke fan Anton Booth was in a pub with pals when officers asked them not to sing any songs with swear words. Delilah came on the jukebox and the rest is history.

From then on Mr Booth would be held aloft on the terraces to sing Delilah's opening lines.

Fan of 26 years, Shawn Beardmore, said: "It's our anthem.

It's the song that every other club associates with Stoke. To get in the top 10, we're going to need 15,000 downloads. So if everyone who goes to the final buys it just once, that's 25,000 downloads and I would imagine that would get us top 10."

Delilah reached number two in the UK charts in 1968.