Rik Mayall announces World Cup song

Comedian Rik Mayall has revealed plans to release a new song to support the England football team ahead of this year's World Cup.

The former Young Ones star has recorded a video for the track, titled 'Noble England', in the guise of King Henry V, and will release it on April 23 - St George's Day.

Raising three fingers to the camera, Mayall told Sky News: "Those three forks, that is what England has bestowed onto the world.

"That is football, Shakespeare and Rik Mayall. Those are the three greatest cultural things that this country England has.

"Shakespeare wrote, 'God cry a win for England and St George', Rik Mayall records it, it's so obvious."

He added: "I am the lovechild of Britannia and St George. That is why they gave birth to me, so that I could release this single, so that England could win the 2010 World Cup.

"This is me doing my bit, it ain't much. God knows I am a modest man, the most wonderful pan-global phenomenon that's ever existed and I suffer from humility and modesty.

"But I'm doing my bit, just like every other Englishman, as we stand shoulder-to-shoulder, doing our bit, stiff upper lip - apart from when you're screaming out the lyrics to 'Noble England', which will win this World Cup."