With Gareth Southgate’s squad having reached the semifinals, where it will face Croatia in Moscow on Wednesday, the tune has enjoyed a huge resurgence, being streamed on Spotify more than one million times in a single day last week. “That’s even from some quite serious England fans.”īy far the most iconic England national team song is “Three Lions”, written ahead of the 1996 European Championships by British pop band The Lightning Seeds and comedy duo Frank Skinner and David Baddiel. “I’ve been getting texts from back home because everyone wants to know what the lyrics of the songs are,” Jack Swanton, an England supporter from Coventry, told USA TODAY Sports. Yet it’s impossible to make out what is being said on television, and hard enough for the untrained ear even within the stadium. Why 'Brits' don't necessarily support England.Croatia finds itself in another ugly controversy.While every team’s fan base has chants and common utterances of support, it is typically British and Irish teams that have taken soccer singalongs to their highest level.Įngland is the only one of the United Kingdom’s four soccer countries to have made the tournament and despite a lower number of fans having traveled to Russia than normal, they have been making sure they are heard.
Unless your tournament viewing has been of the “volume-down” variety, sneaking in action while your boss or professor isn’t looking, you’ll surely have heard a booming, surprisingly melodic chorus punctuating England matches at frequent intervals.
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - If musical humor was rewarded with goals or bonus points, England would have won the World Cup far more often than its solitary triumph in 1966. Watch Video: Why you should root for England in the 2018 World Cup
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