3 Lions: best football "anthem" of all time

Originally Posted by jem

the @#%&!s who lived next door to us played 3 lions on repeat every night between midnight and 2am. for that reason alone, nessun dorma wins. and for any other reason too. never heard ze germans singing nessun dorma. please do not post a vid if they ever did.

Thought you would love the old arrogant Germans tbh,


I envisage you walking around like this all the time.....

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

3 Lions is a worthy winner tbf

Italia 90 was big with the whole Gazza tears thing & everything but I've never known Football capture the zeitgeist the way it did in the summer of 96.
England played some £#%&!ing great stuff (& served up plenty of shite too) - but that song was immortalised that summer.

Absolute death of the game as we knew it, if you thought football was invented with the premiership, Euro 96' was Christmas

Originally Posted by Sizlack

Thought you would love the old arrogant Germans tbh,


I envisage you walking around like this all the time.....

möller can £#%&! right off.

Has to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag_ujTfx3ak

Originally Posted by Sizlack

Thought you would love the old arrogant Germans tbh,


I envisage you walking around like this all the time.....

Still winds me up to this day that #@&%!.

Originally Posted by TripDownMiseryLane

Absolute death of the game as we knew it, if you thought football was invented with the premiership, Euro 96' was Christmas

nobody likes a good moan more than me but I don't see it that way really.
I know what you're saying but I think the success of Euro 96 was fairly organic tbh ..It just built a natural momentum.

the death of the game as we know it is purely a result of the money in the top leagues via corrupt foreign investment & television imo

Euro 96 was just people having fun from what I remember.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

nobody likes a good moan more than me but I don't see it that way really.
I know what you're saying but I think the success of Euro 96 was fairly organic tbh ..It just built a natural momentum.

the death of the game as we know it is purely a result of the money in the top leagues via corrupt foreign investment & television imo

Euro 96 was just people having fun from what I remember.

I don't think Euro 96 was specifically responsible but it did make English football appear more attractive and afterwards we saw a huge influx of foreign players wanting to play their football here.

United started blazing a trail again for English football in the champions league, the premier league became more popular, tv money went up and everything took off from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqydj2zW-Wo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCa1roFoldA

This year's effort is rather poor in comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQlTQYdFncc

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Still winds me up to this day that #@&%!.

I was a little disappointed but I found it highly amusing tbh, especially when they started singing 'its coming home' Those vacky Germans

Originally Posted by Sparky***

I don't think Euro 96 was specifically responsible but it did make English football appear more attractive and afterwards we saw a huge influx of foreign players wanting to play their football here.

United started blazing a trail again for English football in the champions league, the premier league became more popular, tv money went up and everything took off from there.

that's all true tbf mate, I think I was saying more the tournament itself wasn't intentionally responsible for changing Football, I just think lots of people really enjoyed it who might usually not have done - but of course you're correct. As soon as the money men saw the surge of interest in Football in England they capitalised every last drop from it.

3 Lions is iconic though. The country came to a halt for those games with Scotland, Holland, Spain & then especially the SF with Germany.

Originally Posted by Sizlack

I was a little disappointed but I found it highly amusing tbh, especially when they started singing 'its coming home' Those vacky Germans

"who says we germans have no sense of humour?" just about everybody, I think.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Still winds me up to this day that #@&%!.

Tell me about it... you should see the @#%&! in the referendum thread

Originally Posted by Albert Tatlock

Tell me about it... you should see the @#%&! in the referendum thread

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Italia 90 was big with the whole Gazza tears thing & everything

I assume by 'everything' you mean a terrible tournament with no standout teams, hardly any standout games, and so cynical, defensive, and violent that it helped lead to the ban in tackling from behind and backpasses to the keeper.

Originally Posted by Grimson

I assume by 'everything' you mean a terrible tournament with no standout teams, hardly any standout games, and so cynical, defensive, and violent that it helped lead to the ban in tackling from behind and backpasses to the keeper.

So you must have loved it then? Given how much you adore Argie football?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

So you must have loved it then? Given how much you adore Argie football?

You don't know the first thing about Argie football.

Violent at times maybe, but defensive It's the most artistic football on the planet.

Italia 90 was the first World Cup I watched in the pub with my mates and beer and everything. England hadn't become Ingerlund to me by this point & I was happy enough to get carried on the wave all the way to the semis.

Fondest memory is still the Cannigia assassination by half of the Cameroon squad in the opening match. Ahhh, the beautiful game.

Originally Posted by Rorschach

..I watched in the pub with my mates and beer and everything. England hadn't become Ingerlund to me by this point & I was happy enough to get carried on the wave all the way to the semis.

This is probably the same reason why Euro 96 is a fond memory for me tbh.
£#%&!ing loved that summer

World Cup 1998 was good but ABUism was at it's peak by then.

Also this intro by the BBC was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmI0spIVsw4

Originally Posted by Sparky***

World Cup 1998 was good but ABUism was at it's peak by then

Well, it certainly hit its peak just afterwards. Remember the "Becks as a dartboard" pullout from one paper?