Football Songs #2: Three Lions

[azureskies]

Right, then. Just in time for England to get knocked out of the World Cup by Germany, let's do the next (or, possibly, last?) of my posts on football songs, in a vague attempt at whipping up a bit of spirit.

So. "Three Lions", then. Not actually a World Cup song originally, of course - but still just about the greatest football song ever written.

Comments

[drop_and_roll]

I'm not a football fan at all but I really like Three Lions. I like its sentiment.
With that said, I'm off to the supermarket now to take advantage of the complete lack of queues :D

[braisedbywolves]

Were the papers really full of "England's going to lose" in 96? If so, what went wrong?

[adnams74]

The original 3 Lions is easily the best football song of all time, even better than World In Motion (which is a much better song then 3 Lions but not as good a football song).

You are right it did capture the imagination at the time. God those were the days. I remember Euro 96 really well and listening to that song takes me back all those years.

[not_on_fire]

Hate to be a pedant, but wasn't Moore's tackle on Jairzinho?

[not_on_fire]

And I seem to remember that 3 Lions wasn't actually the official England song for Euro 96 - wasn't there some awful song by Echo and the Bunnymen?