Editing Chris Waddle (section)

==Media career==
In 1987, Waddle recorded the song "[[Diamond Lights]]" in a duet with Spurs and England teammate [[Glenn Hoddle]]. The song reached number 12 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in May of that year and the pair appeared on [[Top of the Pops|Top Of The Pops]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Waddle|first=Chris|date=2009-04-24|title=23 April 1987: Hoddle and Waddle appear on Top of the Pops|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/apr/25/tottenham-hotspur|access-date=2020-06-30|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Whilst at Marseille he joined teammate [[Basile Boli]] in recording a song entitled ''We've Got a Feeling''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Basile Boli et Chris Waddle|url=http://www.bide-et-musique.com/artist/511.html|access-date=10 September 2007|publisher=Bide-et-musique.com|language=fr}}</ref>

Despite spending the 1997–98 season as a manager, Waddle never returned to the coaching side of the game following his retirement and became a TV football pundit, commentator and sports newspaper writer. He previously worked for [[Setanta Sports]] and [[BT Sport ESPN|ESPN]], he currently works as an analyst for [[BBC Radio 5 Live|BBC Radio Five Live]]'s [[Premier League]] football coverage.

Waddle appeared on [[BBC Radio 5 Live]] as a summariser at [[FA Premier League|Premier League]] matches and also writes a column in ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' newspaper. Waddle signed a deal with [[Setanta Sports]] to commentate on all England away matches in 2008–09. Waddle then went on to co-commentate for [[ESPN (UK)|ESPN]]'s English Premier League football coverage and is a pundit on Showsports Arabia, covering the English Premier League, from the studio in Dubai, UAE.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/aug/24/espn-premiership-kevin-keegan |title=ESPN signs Kevin Keegan to front its Premier League coverage |first=Mark |last=Sweney |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=24 August 2009 |access-date=8 October 2009}}</ref>

In 2003, [[Thierry Henry]] named Waddle in his all-time Dream Team Line up.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} Following [[England national football team|England]]'s heavy defeat to [[German national football team|Germany]] in the second round of the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]], Waddle criticised the [[The Football Association|English Football Association]], claiming: "The FA sit on their backsides and do nothing tournament after tournament after tournament. Why don't they listen? Why don't they look at other countries and ask 'how do they keep producing talent?' We coach talent out of players ... We lack so many ideas and it is so frustrating. The amount of money in our league is frightening and all we do is waste it on rubbish ideas ... We kid ourselves thinking we have a chance if we keep the tempo up. We can only play one way and it is poor. You can't go on playing football and hoping to win trophies playing a hundred miles an hour and putting teams under pressure for 90 minutes. You've got to be able to play slow, slow, quick and we can't do it."<ref>{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8766476.stm |title= BBC pundits on England |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=27 June 2010 |first=Alan |last=Hansen}}</ref>

In 2019 Waddle featured in the first season of [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] show [[Harry's Heroes]], which featured former football manager [[Harry Redknapp]] attempting get a squad of former England international footballers back fit and healthy for a game against Germany legends.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://talkbackproductions.tv/our-shows/harrys-heroes-the-full-english/ | title=Talkback Productions }}</ref>