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Pedro Romhanyi directed the music video for the original Three Lions. When it's the difference between being Champions League finalists or beaten semi-finalists, best to pick an extremely well-paid, experienced, international footballer who can kick a ball with either foot, Rafa. The Premier League decoupled from the Football League in 1992, and quickly began turning football into a soap opera. So Euro 1996 fell at a fortuitous conjunction, and the England team — perhaps a touch surprisingly — rose to the occasion. And in the grand scheme of England football songs, which range from the from the wonderful to the dreadful, and on through the highly peculiar, it’s a pretty good one.
But the verse of Three Lions, which was released 22 years ago, has left even football-savvy younger fans a little confused. Many will recognise the slurred refrain as the choral lyric to the 1996 No 1 single Three Lions, penned by Scouse Britpop band the Lightning Seeds and the then-relatively baby-faced comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel. "These are not the words of a bitter and twisted Scotsman. I have spent most of my working life in England and want to see the national team do well.
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The "ready for war" motif was later used in the 1998 version of the song, attributed to Paul Ince. "There has been a feelgood factor between the players, fans and media which I haven't seen around an England team, and that's been great to witness. But I am also a professional footballer who's been around the block a bit." It's now used by England fans to refer to the ongoing hope that the England football fans will bring home a trophy from a major tournament.
Almost '80 PER CENT of the 69,000 supporters watching the World Cup semi-final between Morocco and France... Lionel Messi confirms Sunday's final will be his LAST ever World Cup match... The Bolton manager, who has seen his side emerge from the bottom three with back-to-back wins, believes Birmingham are the favourites to avoid relegation because two of their three remaining games are at St Andrew's. For that much, though, you'd hope the 31-year-old Germany powerhouse can spend a little less time on the treatment table and some more time grabbing games by the scruff of the neck and bossing them like he used to do. Compare Chelsea's run with Manchester United's in 1999 — Barcelona, Brondby, Bayern Munich , Inter Milan and Juventus — and you'll understand that if Chelsea do reach the final in Moscow it won't be because they're one of the two best teams in Europe. After the dark stretch of the 1980s, and the horrifying lows of Heysel and Hillsborough, the game passed into the hands of men who decided to rebrand it, to gentrify it, and to sell it back to a nation ready to feel good about its national game.
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As well as the aforementioned 1996 and updated 1998 versions, a new song was recorded ahead of the 2010 World Cup, with Baddiel, Skinner and Broudie forming The Squad with Robbie Williams and Russell Brand. A curious outworking of the "It's Coming Home" craze that is gripping England fans is the preponderance of memes and viral videos that have appeared on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. In another sense, the line has since come to reflect a desire for a second World Cup triumph, with fans willing the team to bring the trophy home for the first time since 1966. "Three Lions" and its subsequent versions are imbued with a defiant sense of optimism against the painful litany of England's past failings at major tournaments. Ahead of the knockout stage of the tournament, Skinner revealed that, having previously grown weary of the playing of their song at England games, he was becoming more accepting of it at Russia 2018.
England is looking to win its first World Cup since it defeated West Germany in 1966 for its lone championship in the tournament's history. When the election was held on 1 May 1997, Labour won by a landslide. The song features added vocals from the ACM Gospel Choir, a soprano and commentator John Motson. Famous fans such as former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher tweeted on the subject, while some even photoshopped Harry Kane's head onto a photo of Bobby Moore in a famous 1966 World Cup winning pose. The saying, which suggests the World Cup trophy is returning 'home' to what England supporters believe is the birthplace of football, and is an excerpt from the popular 'Three Lions' by The Lightning Seeds and released for the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Ronaldo, John Terry and Gabriel Batistuta lead the former football stars facing off in first ever padel...
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The single as a result reached number 49 on the German Singles Chart. The song was later sung by Germany fans during their team's first appearance at the new Wembley in 2007 and is still heard frequently on German radio stations. Broudie said he was shocked to hear German fans singing the song after beating England at Euro 96. On 18 November 2022, Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds released the song, titled "Three Lions (It's Coming Home for Christmas)".
Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's Digital Editor and Staff Writer. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. The 51-strong Epic Orchestra often turns its hand to covers of pop songs, so in 2021 it performed a lush, sweeping orchestral arrangement of 'Three Lions' ahead of the 2020 Euros. In the quarterfinals, England knocked off Sweden 2-0 to earn its first trip to the World Cup semifinals since 1990, when it lost to eventual-champion Germany on penalties. The crowd noise in the intro of the track is in fact Brøndby fans recorded by Ian Broudie at Anfield during a UEFA Cup tie in October 1995.
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Unlike those of most football songs, the lyrics speak not of unbounded optimism for victory but instead of how, since England's victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, every tournament has ended in dashed hopes. However, the failures have not dampened the feeling that England could succeed again ("Three lions on a shirt / Jules Rimet still gleaming / Thirty years of hurt / never stopped me dreaming"). Baddiel said the song was "really about magical thinking. About assuming we are going to lose, reasonably, based on experience, but hoping that somehow we won't." According to Skinner's autobiography, the original lyrics included the line "Butcher ready for war" instead of "Bobby belting the ball".
All three collaborators still retain a sense of pride regarding "Three Lions," and during the 2018 World Cup, as it made yet another comeback in tandem with the exploits of Southgate's side, they reveled in the connection between their song, the players and the fans. Baddiel and Skinner, who were the presenters of a television show "Fantasy Football League" at the time, wrote the lyrics, with Broudie coming up with the melody and accompanying music. "It's Coming Home" has become a slogan and a call to arms for England fans this summer as Gareth Southgate's team looks to end decades of disappointment by winning the World Cup in Russia.
Whenever England is able to get one past the keeper, expect to hear the fans singing in unison about football coming home. Beth Mead – "And Beth Mead screaming" – she was named both player of the tournament and top scorer with six goals and five assists. As well as a karaoke version of the new song, the single featured a song called "Tout est Possible" (French for "Anything is Possible") as a B-side. The song was largely composed of a recurring chorus, samples from commentators and pundits, and the occasional short verse. It also started with a French speech sample referring to "La Coupe du Monde" .
Rimet was the longest-serving president of Fifa, who held the post for 33 years and who started the World Cup competition in 1929. The original World Cup trophy was named after him – the trophy England won in 1966. "But if I'm an opposition player, it would irritate the life out of me. That's my motivation there and then, and that's how Croatia said they had channeled the song.
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