So all they are talking about is Oooom-Bappy, a piece of piss for our notable cheetah MacGuire.
I predicted QF exit for England before it started and I still do alas. The reason being that we cannot avoid the 'good' countries in the draw at QF stage like we did in the last two tournaments.
And I have to agree with
@goatwack - I am so fucking pukingly emetically sick of that shite-sound 'It's coming home' song that I'd even be glad when we're out so it doesn't perpetuate the moronic singing of said bilge, if I never hear it again it'll be too soon.
The terrible tripe got it's name for ONE specific tourney - Euro '96 when football (an English invention) came 'home' to England as the tourney was hosted there. So hence 'it's coming home'. It was not about a trophy 'coming home' and never was. Some hope, kind a like a 20,000x on Bonanza. If I see Yasser Arafat and Frank Skinner's ugly mugs ever again I am going to add them to A*t & D*c on my psychotic hate list.
Now I hate soccer songs. The average knuckle-dragging, brawling and bottle & chair-throwing England fan is not expected to remember more than 3 words or 6 syllables. So we get complex lyrics like 'It's coming home' (3 words) which morphs into '
football's coming home' (which admirably most England fans have now got the hang of, the alternating prefix word!)
Other classics include 'Here we go, here we go' (repeated) 3 simple words, nice and easy. Then Fat Les 'la-la-la' (same word 3 times but sung in 3 different notes in a crescendo so just about memorable to them.) The infinitely superior 'World in Motion' by New Order is largely forgotten because of the technical complexity of the lyrics 'Love's got the world in motion and I can't believe it's true' (far too long-winded for the beer monsters) although they did try to accomodate their intellects with an easy chorus 'We're singing for England, Eng-er-lund' which alas breached the 3-word barrier by using 4 words before the 3-syllable 'Eng-er-lund'. So fell by the smashed-glass wayside.
The Scots must be a bit more educated because in the mists of history when they used to qualify for WC's I recall BA Robertson's (pretty good) song 'I have a dream' which is 4 words, thus Scots fans must be 33.3% brighter than English ones.
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