‘It’s Coming Home’: The Song That Divides Soccer Fans
The Lead
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After more than 50 years of waiting, England fans saw their team reach the final of a major tournament on Wednesday after the Three Lions knocked off Denmark at Wembley Stadium. The soundtrack for this historic run is a song that debuted 25 years ago, the last time England hosted a European tournament, and produced a memorable slogan for English fans, 'It's Coming Home.' Today, The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke joins us to talk about the origins of the song that led to the chant, why it's so divisive among some fans and players, and what Gareth Southgate has brought to the national team setup to get them back to the mountaintop.
Read Jack Pitt-Brooke's story about the origins of The Three Lions: https://theathletic.com/2689661/2021/07/07/its-coming-home-dream-boast-or-way-of-life/
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| 0:46.0 | England has advanced to the final of the European Championships and will now meet Italy on Sunday. |
| 0:58.0 | That game will be in London and inside the country's soccer temple, Wembley Stadium. |
| 1:03.0 | And all that has meant that a familiar song has been ringing out, well even more than usual. |
| 1:16.0 | Today the Athletics Jack Pitbrook joins us from London to discuss how this England team has been giving fans new hope |
| 1:23.0 | and why the songs that has become their anthem has attracted a fair amount of criticism. |
| 1:28.0 | I think that the song is arrogant because they would say well the English team is only one one major tournament in its history. |
| 1:35.0 | So it's arrogant to say that England winning something would be football returning home. |
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| 1:46.0 | They've seen it all before they just know. |
| 1:51.0 | So Jack first things first here, where were you for England's huge victory over Denmark on Wednesday and how much beer would sprayed on you over the course of the match? |
| 2:00.0 | So I was at Wembley Stadium in the press box. No beer was sprayed on me but a colleague of mine from another newspaper had what looked like a whole pint of beer thrown from the tear above which soaked him and his laptop and his desk. |
| 2:15.0 | When I left the stadium coming up to 1am was walking out to go and get an Uber. |
| 2:20.0 | My feet were sticking to the concrete floor outside Wembley Stadium because so much beer had been spilled. |
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