Singing songs about your football team being the best is not the same as claiming your team invented football and it wants to return to its owners.
So Slabhead is the new Southgate then I take it?
But we did.
And this is the first time I have ever seen anyone apply an anthropomorphization to the song. We the fans are celebrating it (hopefully) coming home. Football is not celebrating being allowed out of the clutches of foreign savages.
Is England footballâs âhomeâ?
This is why other nationâs think weâre pricks and we donât win World Cup bids. That and the racism and culture of drunken, violent loutism that passes for support.
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Iâm just glad that the literay work of Skinner and Baddiel is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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To make clear I have nothing against the song âitâs coming homeâ. Love it and i think the (our) songs are the best things about English fan culture.
âWeâre gonna win the leagueâ was the most heard chant behind 'YNWAâ in 2014 and after we did not win the league that year it was not heard once in the coming years. Not even once in 2019 (when we finished one point behind City).
Why? Because we learned our lesson and understood that itâs not appropriate in the middle of the season.
My problem is the way English fans âcelebrated themselvesâ after the round of 16 game. Arrogant and not appropriate - as if they had already won the tournament. But shouldnât history be a warning for them? Seriously it felt similar to Everton celebrating the league in October.
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I just want to give these boys one great big mum hug.
They are the future of our national team and TAA. Whether we like national team football tournaments or not, these boys need our love, support and patience to help them recover.
Edit: And Joe Gomez, @redalways , okay now
What were many of us doing at the age of 19 years?
I was stacking books in the local Library as my saturday job. Saka was in a final of a European tournament.
For the record, many of us are not part of the lager louts which people have seen on the tv. I wish the media show that there many of us with families who had taken their kids as well. We are a multicultural fanbase as well, which never seems to be seen.
If you see the video of 3 Lions song, it funny and they guys are making fun of themselves. The song is self depecrating humour and it gives the outsider look at the national psyche of the earnest England football fan, who is desperate to win something and then is hopeless at dealing with the loss.
Cultural and language barriers can be a hindrance. At the end of the day, we all love football and l should look out for each other when in need as well as in the good times. Football brings people together. As The Beatles sang:
âAll you need is Loveâ
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Joe Gomez feels a little left out donât you think? 
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Again that is not what the song is about. And anybody claiming otherwise is just trying to pursue a narrative which supports their own agenda.
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We all will be going round in circles with this song, till the cows come home. It is never ending.
Looking forward for another controversial topic to grace the threads.
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Nearly a million of us on this petition, there were not a million people in Leicester square or at Wembley. Never mind the 30million watching at home. It is a minority.
1 person defaces a mural, thousands of us donate to have it repaired. It is a minority.
That doesnât mean âitâs a minority letâs just ignore itâ. It means. âItâs a minority and we need to show them theyâre a minorityâ
Time to name and shame these racists and get their employers to sack them.
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Its people working in the media that drive it, Rio Ferdinand working on BBC 1 for example.
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Organised football begun in England and it was its sailors that largely spread the game throughout the world. Football belongs to everyone but if it has a home, thatâs England.
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Decking them, then kicking them repeatedly in the back of the head.
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What about the Murdoch employed media, they also stoke the flames of racism?
Tyrone Mings for spoke about the players frustration on hypocrisy of govt ministers about âTaking the Kneeâ and then he gets lectured by MPs.
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What would you have considered appropriate? It was Englandâs first win over Germany in a knock out tournament since 1966, why would that not be celebrated? I have no idea if Germany have a rival nation against which they have regularly lost against at tournaments (I suspect not given how ridiculously successful they are), but any set of fans and media would revel in that sort of victory.
Iâm really not convinced the media or fans were acting like theyâd already won the tournament either. After that game everything I remember reading in articles, hearing on podcasts and seeing on TV was a sense of cautious optimism about how England had given themselves a great chance to get to the final, which was absolutely true given that they were the best team left on that side of the draw.
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Do you honestly believe that 99% of the people who sing that song actually hold some kind of weird view about how the game belongs to the English and that they have some kind of divine right to be winning things, or is it possible that people are just singing along to a catchy, familiar song?
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Iâm Liverpool above all else, but did start to turn this tournemant⌠Not because of Southgate and his mummying up to the press to hide his limited ability and love for waistcoats⌠Not because of a couple of ex-proâs getting carried away⌠Not because a few catchy tunes caught the nation beyond football fansâŚ
But because some young football players, stood up to the utter hypocrites in power and gave them two fingers⌠That is what transcends football and rivalry⌠Rashford is a legend for what he has and will continue to do so⌠Huge respect to Mings for taking it to an utter cunt like Patel⌠Young lads, primarily from the very elements of society the Torys would like to keep down. Fair play to the lot of them. Itâs not even about the football, but for what the England team has shown it has regained my respect.
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But thatâs not what the song is saying.
It is gently taking the piss out of people who hold such beliefs.
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