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It's coming home: Three Lions anthem set for Christmas comeback It's coming home: Three Lions anthem set for Christmas comeback
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Three Lions has been described as a "bittersweet love song to the England team"Three Lions has been described as a "bittersweet love song to the England team"
A fresh version of English football's anthem Three Lions inspired by the Lionesses and this year's winter World Cup could soon be in the making. Football anthem Three Lions could be updated with references to England's Euros 2022 success and Christmas in time for this year's winter World Cup, singer Ian Broudie has said.
Singer Ian Broudie, who recorded the hit with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, said he was inspired by the Lionesses' European Championship win. Broudie, whose band The Lightning Seeds recorded the 1996 hit with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, said the way the Lionesses embraced it after their win had made him consider a remake.
"I don't think it is 100% definite but I think it is definitely on the cards," Liverpool-born Broudie said. He said it was not "100% definite, but I think it is definitely on the cards".
The song was released in 1996 as England hosted the Euros. The original has been number one twice.
Broudie, who was a member of pop band The Lightning Seeds, when he teamed up with comedians Baddiel and Skinner to pen English football's earworm, said he thought it could be a good idea to release a version especially with the World Cup final ending a week before Christmas. It hit the top of the charts in 1996, after it was released ahead of England's hosting of the European Championships, and again in 2018, on the back of England's success at that year's World Cup.
"It will only ever be at Christmas once," said the singer, who added he was inspired when the Lionesses gatecrashed their coach's press conference, singing the song. An updated version of the track released for the 1998 World Cup also hit number one.
Ian Broudie said the Lionesses' recent successes inspired him Euro 2022: Singing England players interrupt Sarina Wiegman's news conference
Broudie said: "With the Lionesses and the way they played it was so refreshing to watch and when they came into the press conference and jumped on the table that's when it felt like wouldn't be lovely to do something." Euro 2022: Singing England players interrupt Sarina Wiegman's news conference
Once described as a "bittersweet lovesong to the England team" by Skinner, Three Lions was conceived when the FA asked Baddiel and Skinner to write the official England song for Euro 96 which saw them enlisting The Lightning Seeds to provide the music. Broudie said updating it again would be "a good idea" and it would definitely take some inspiration from the Lionesses, who won their first major tournament in July and became the first England side since 1966 to lift a trophy.
Two years later it was re-recorded for the 1998 World Cup with updated lyrics referring to England's Euro 96 semi-final departure on penalties. He said he had been particularly inspired by seeing the team singing the song while gatecrashing their manager Sarina Wiegman's chat with the media.
It has become English football's default chant with the words "football's coming home" for every tournament involving both the men's and women's teams since. "The way they played and won, it was so refreshing to watch," he said.
"And when they came into the press conference and jumped on the table and sang Three Lions, I think we felt like it would be lovely to do something.
"So I don't think it's 100% definite, but it's definitely on the cards."
He said it could also get a Yuletide twist, because the upcoming tournament was at Christmas "and it will only probably ever be at Christmas once".
He added that even though football "had come home", a reference to the song's famous refrain, there was still a need for it.
"Even if it comes home, you want it to come home again.
"It's a bit like 'oh you just won that, let's win it again'."
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