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 steeleye20  Croydon 14 Jul 21 1.40pm |
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Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer
I haven't heard anyone say it, but I totally agree with you. It was a rubbish concept and just made England and their fans look foolish. All because it is generally thought the game was started here. A symbol of english arrogance and a deserved stick to beat us with. An additional load on our team other countries just have to play football.
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Goal Machine  The Cronx 14 Jul 21 1.46pm |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
I presume someone has said it, probably a lot of people, but can we please never, ever, hear 'football's coming home' ever again. It's not big and it's not clever. Sorry, but it’s a great tune which the majority love when an international tournament comes around every two years. I’ve never known a song to unite a nation like ‘Football’s coming home’ does. It’s not about being big and clever, it’s a song which takes the piss out of ourselves for our long standing misery over failure to ever win anything.
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 14 Jul 21 2.25pm |
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Originally posted by Goal Machine
Sorry, but it’s a great tune which the majority love when an international tournament comes around every two years. I’ve never known a song to unite a nation like ‘Football’s coming home’ does. It’s not about being big and clever, it’s a song which takes the piss out of ourselves for our long standing misery over failure to ever win anything. It seems to just jinx or come back and haunt though. I enjoyed it in 96. Since then, I'm getting increasingly jaded with it. I'm not 100% convinced it's sung in an ironic way now but it's an interesting viewpoint. The big and clever comes from Vic & Bob.
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| nettletoneagle market rasen 14 Jul 21 4.06pm |
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Any chance of a revival of 'Back Home'in time for our plucky boys heading for Qatar next year? Or better still appropriate 'don't come home too soon'from our Scottish cousins.
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Frickin Saweet  South Cronx 14 Jul 21 5.13pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
A symbol of english arrogance and a deserved stick to beat us with. An additional load on our team other countries just have to play football.
surely the only people that think it's arrogant are non-English people who don't get the irony and humour in the song. Me and my mates sing it more when we play sh1t, because we know it's never coming home.
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Henry of Peckham  Eton Mess 14 Jul 21 5.27pm |
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Originally posted by Frickin Saweet
surely the only people that think it's arrogant are non-English people who don't get the irony and humour in the song. Me and my mates sing it more when we play sh1t, because we know it's never coming home. Totally agree on both counts and in any case who really gives a monkeys what the Continentals say or think about us?
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| EverybodyDannsNow SE19 14 Jul 21 5.39pm |
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Originally posted by Frickin Saweet
surely the only people that think it's arrogant are non-English people who don't get the irony and humour in the song. Me and my mates sing it more when we play sh1t, because we know it's never coming home. This Also, isn't that point in football songs and chants to be a bit of a dreamer? Basically every club in England, including ourselves, sing about being "by far the greatest team the world has ever seen" and it's not true for any of us.
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 15 Jul 21 12.48pm |
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Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow
This Also, isn't that point in football songs and chants to be a bit of a dreamer? Basically every club in England, including ourselves, sing about being "by far the greatest team the world has ever seen" and it's not true for any of us. Palace are the greatest team.
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| Frickin Saweet South Cronx 16 Jul 21 8.55am |
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Originally posted by Henry of Peckham
Totally agree on both counts and in any case who really gives a monkeys what the Continentals say or think about us? funnily enough we sang it at the end of the England v Scotland bore draw, and the fella sat in front of us took umbrage, threw his table up in the air and wanted to fight all of us, only to be grabbed and marched out the pub by his mates. I guess there are even some home supporters who don't get the song. He was a youngen to be fair, and perhaps not as accustomed as the rest of us to England performances in major tournaments.
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| Eaglehamster Storrington 16 Jul 21 11.25am |
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Originally posted by Goal Machine
Sorry, but it’s a great tune which the majority love when an international tournament comes around every two years. I’ve never known a song to unite a nation like ‘Football’s coming home’ does. It’s not about being big and clever, it’s a song which takes the piss out of ourselves for our long standing misery over failure to ever win anything. I'd far rather hear that than "Rule Britannia" or "God Save the Queen". Neither have anything to do with football but hark back to the days of imperialism.
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 16 Jul 21 4.15pm |
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