Soal Isi Lagu It's Coming Home yang Belum Juga Kejadian Buat Inggris

Jakarta - Setiap tim nasional Inggris berlaga, slogan "it's coming home" terdengar terus. Sayangnya, kalimat yang juga harapan para fans sepakbola Inggris itu gak juga kejadian.

Terus, ada apa sih sama "it's coming home" itu?

Ya, Inggris dianggap sebagai pelopor sepak bola modern. Jadi, wajar aja kalau mereka merasa tanah Inggris adalah rumahnya sepak bola.

Kalimat ini biasanya dilontarkan tiap kali timnas Inggris tampil di kejuaraan besar seperti Euro atau Piala Dunia. Harapannya, tentu saja biar tim kesayangan mereka bisa kembali meraih prestasi sejak terakhir kali jadi juara Piala Dunia 1966 di kandang sendiri.

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Menurut The Independent, slogan "football is coming home" diambil dari lirik lagu Three Lions yang rilis pada 1996. Lagu ini adalah karya dua komedian Inggris, Frank Skinner dan David Baddiel, yang dibuat untuk menyambut Piala Eropa 1996 yang diadakan di Inggris.

Dengan bantuan Ian Broudie dari grup musik The Lightning Seeds, Skinner dan Baddiel menulis lirik yang mencerminkan kekecewaan para pendukung terhadap performa timnas Inggris sejak 1966.

Salah satu momen paling diingat dari lagu Three Lions adalah saat para suporter menyanyikannya setelah kemenangan 0-2 atas Skotlandia di penyisihan grup Euro 1996 di Stadion Wembley.

Nyanyian ini bukan baru pertama kali mewarnai perjalanan timnas Inggris di kejuaraan besar. Bahkan, Skinner dan Baddiel sempat merekam ulang lagu ini jelang Piala Dunia 1998 di Prancis dan 2010 di Afrika Selatan.

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Kemarin, saat Inggris meladeni Spanyol di partai final Piala Eropa 2024, nyanyian itu terdengar lagi. Dan lagi-lagi, semangat "football is coming home" para pendukung The Three Lions berharap timnas Inggris bisa meraih kejayaan gak terwujud.

Berikut adalah lirik lagu Football is Coming Home (Three Lions) karya Frank Skinner dan David Baddiel:

The crosses of St George are flying all around me.
Gareth Southgate the whole of England is with you
Oh it's saved, saved, saved!

We still believe
We still believe
We still believe

It's coming home, it's coming home,
It's coming football's coming home
It's coming home, it's coming home
It's coming football's coming home

Tears for heroes dressed in grey.
No plans for final day.
Stay in bed, drift away
It could have been all
Songs in the street
it was nearly complete
it was nearly so sweet
and now I'm singing

Three lions on a shirt,
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming

Talk about football coming home
And then one night in Rome...
We were strong, we had grown-
And now I see Ince ready for war,
Gazza good as before,
Shearer certain to score
and Psycho screaming

Three lions on a shirt,
Jules Rimet still gleaming,
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming

(Beautiful football by England,
Gazza oh that is majestic,
Alan Shearer,
Italy nil
England nil and we're there in France 1998)

We can dance Nobby's dance
we could dance it in France!

It's coming home, it's coming home
It's coming football's coming home

It's coming home, it's coming home
It's coming football's coming home

It's coming home, it's coming home
It's coming football's coming home

It's coming home, it's coming home
It's coming football's coming home

Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming

Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming

Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming

(dar/pus)

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