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| 'It's not coming home': England's anthem returns to haunt them | 'It's not coming home': England's anthem returns to haunt them |
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| When the French midfielder Paul Pogba danced with the World Cup trophy on Sunday night, he laughed as he delivered a message for fans watching on his Instagram video livestream: “It’s coming home.” Meanwhile, his teammate Olivier Giroud, asked by UK journalists how he felt about winning the trophy, responded similarly: “It’s a great feeling. I mean, ‘It’s coming home’! I had to say that.” | When the French midfielder Paul Pogba danced with the World Cup trophy on Sunday night, he laughed as he delivered a message for fans watching on his Instagram video livestream: “It’s coming home.” Meanwhile, his teammate Olivier Giroud, asked by UK journalists how he felt about winning the trophy, responded similarly: “It’s a great feeling. I mean, ‘It’s coming home’! I had to say that.” |
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| After the nation took the Three Lions to its heart - and back to number one in the charts - during the men’s national team’s heady run to the World Cup semi-finals, questions are being asked over whether what started off as an ironic nostalgic chant may have been inadvertently perceived as an arrogant boast by rival nations. | After the nation took the Three Lions to its heart - and back to number one in the charts - during the men’s national team’s heady run to the World Cup semi-finals, questions are being asked over whether what started off as an ironic nostalgic chant may have been inadvertently perceived as an arrogant boast by rival nations. |
| The ITV commentator Jacqui Oatley described having an argument outside a Moscow hotel following the World Cup final with the former Croatian international Slaven Bilic and the ex-Uruguay player Diego Forlan about the song. | The ITV commentator Jacqui Oatley described having an argument outside a Moscow hotel following the World Cup final with the former Croatian international Slaven Bilic and the ex-Uruguay player Diego Forlan about the song. |
| She said that both former footballers were adamant that, despite its original meaning, the revival of the song by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, and the Lightning Seeds made the English “come across as arrogant”. | She said that both former footballers were adamant that, despite its original meaning, the revival of the song by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, and the Lightning Seeds made the English “come across as arrogant”. |
| Oatley said she had explained its original meaning to the former players: “It was about England being rubbish at football and a little bit wistful and taking the mickey. The reason it took off this time was because the fans were just happy.” | Oatley said she had explained its original meaning to the former players: “It was about England being rubbish at football and a little bit wistful and taking the mickey. The reason it took off this time was because the fans were just happy.” |
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| Croatian players cited British media hype around their semi-final with England as an impetus for the victory, with Vedran Ćorluka telling British journalists “it’s not coming home” after winning the match. “If it’s so widely perceived as being arrogant - not just outside these shores but also in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - then maybe there’s something in it,” Oakley said. | Croatian players cited British media hype around their semi-final with England as an impetus for the victory, with Vedran Ćorluka telling British journalists “it’s not coming home” after winning the match. “If it’s so widely perceived as being arrogant - not just outside these shores but also in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - then maybe there’s something in it,” Oakley said. |
| “Should that be the song that’s played when England win a match?” If that’s something that stokes up the opposition then is that really in England’s interest?” | “Should that be the song that’s played when England win a match?” If that’s something that stokes up the opposition then is that really in England’s interest?” |
| Anthony Sarver, a features writer for Get French Football News, said Paris-based sports outlets felt the song was hubristic: “What the English might have felt was a melange of national pride and self-deprecation, others took it as the arrogance of golden age-thinking and falling back on the success of the Premier League. | Anthony Sarver, a features writer for Get French Football News, said Paris-based sports outlets felt the song was hubristic: “What the English might have felt was a melange of national pride and self-deprecation, others took it as the arrogance of golden age-thinking and falling back on the success of the Premier League. |
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| “L’Équipe instead saw it and the sensationalization of Gareth Southgate’s subjectively small achievements as embarrassing, with the view in France that ,whilst he had done a good job to give England a semblance of organisation of the kind that an England team has rarely seen before, their favourable route to the semi-final, over-reliance on set pieces and lack of a midfield controller were weaknesses critically ignored by the praise they received in the English press and the excitement of the country’s fans.” | “L’Équipe instead saw it and the sensationalization of Gareth Southgate’s subjectively small achievements as embarrassing, with the view in France that ,whilst he had done a good job to give England a semblance of organisation of the kind that an England team has rarely seen before, their favourable route to the semi-final, over-reliance on set pieces and lack of a midfield controller were weaknesses critically ignored by the praise they received in the English press and the excitement of the country’s fans.” |
| In an attempt to diffuse the situation. Gary Lineker, the BBC’s main football host, used a tweet addressed to non English football fans to highlight that it was a “fun song highlighting the lack of success of our football team for decades” and those singing it didn’t truly think England would win the trophy. | In an attempt to diffuse the situation. Gary Lineker, the BBC’s main football host, used a tweet addressed to non English football fans to highlight that it was a “fun song highlighting the lack of success of our football team for decades” and those singing it didn’t truly think England would win the trophy. |
| “I totally get why you might think it was arrogance, but it’s more our self deprecatory sense of humour,” he insisted. | “I totally get why you might think it was arrogance, but it’s more our self deprecatory sense of humour,” he insisted. |
| Sam Diss, the commissioning editor of the football lifestyle magazine Mundial, said the song’s meaning had changed as England’s underrated team began to work its way through the knock-out stages and memes relating to the song spread across Twitter and WhatsApp groups. “It definitely started as a joke. But if you tell yourself a lie enough you start to think it’s the truth. By Colombia, I’d fully drunk the Coming Home Kool-Aid. | Sam Diss, the commissioning editor of the football lifestyle magazine Mundial, said the song’s meaning had changed as England’s underrated team began to work its way through the knock-out stages and memes relating to the song spread across Twitter and WhatsApp groups. “It definitely started as a joke. But if you tell yourself a lie enough you start to think it’s the truth. By Colombia, I’d fully drunk the Coming Home Kool-Aid. |
| “Gary Lineker said it was just another example of British humour but everyone definitely thought for varying lengths of time that we could win it,” he said, admitting a backlash from rival nations was probably inevitable after the tournament. “You can’t act like knobheads for a month and drunkenly slur along to a 22-year old song and then not get it thrown back in your face.” | “Gary Lineker said it was just another example of British humour but everyone definitely thought for varying lengths of time that we could win it,” he said, admitting a backlash from rival nations was probably inevitable after the tournament. “You can’t act like knobheads for a month and drunkenly slur along to a 22-year old song and then not get it thrown back in your face.” |
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