‘It’s coming home’: England success sparks social media sensation
External Link: YouTube: "Three Lions (Football's Coming Home) (Official Video)"
England's football team is enjoying its best World Cup in 28 years, and fans have started getting a little bit excited.
The nation's unofficial anthem Three Lions — with its incredibly catchy chorus "it's coming home" — has enjoyed a resurgence in recent weeks as the Harry Kane captained side has made the semi finals for just the third time.
The incredibly catchy lyrics come from the 1996 song by The Lightning Seeds along with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner and was released to coincide with England's hosting of the European Championships.
The lyrics refer to the sport's return to the country in which it was invented and England's struggles to return to the glory days of its World Cup win in 1966.
Even if England does not win in Russia or even make the final, there is still plenty more ground for this song to cover in 2018.
It's coming home, it's coming
From royal bands performing at the Buckingham Palace guard change, fans shutting down streets in London, performers in hit West End musicals and organ players at 600-year-old cathedrals, the song seems to be everywhere.
External Link: The Royal Family twitter: "The Bands of the Guards Division played a very special rendition of the "Three Lions – It's Coming Home" song on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace yesterday ahead of Englands World Cup quarter-final game with Sweden." External Link: Hamilton West End twitter: ""…I hear the drinking song theyre singing." #ItsComingHome" External Link: Shoreditch High St blocked: "Shoreditch High St blocked to traffic due to spontaneous rendition of Three Lions" External Link: Exeter Cathedral twitter: ""To Russia With Love". This one is for you and your lads, @garethsouthgate, from Team @ExeterCathedral. [TAP FOR SOUND]"
Football's coming home
It's gone even further in the social media age, with clever people synchronising the song to key scenes in popular movies and television shows and sharing on the #ItsComingHome hashtag.
External Link: It's Coming Home: The Matrix scene External Link: It's Coming Home: Wizard of Oz: "Its coming home! #threelions"
Three lions on the shirt
Even England's players have got in on the act, with Manchester United attacker Jesse Lingard sharing the contents of his phone conversation with his mother.
External Link: Jesse Lingard twitter: "https://twitter.com/JesseLingard/status/1014264872425721857"
Manchester City's Kyle Walker probably sums up the rest of the readers who have made it this far down in the story.
External Link: Kyle Walker twitter: "When you cant get “its coming home” theme tune out your head"
Prince William is the president of the Football Association and has been keenly following the World Cup.
As for the song's creators?
As England asserted its dominance over Sweden in the quarter final, Baddiel is showing that he and Skinner "still believe".
External Link: David Baddiel twitter: 'It's' External Link: David Baddiel twitter: Coming External Link: David Baddiel twitter: Home
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