To be sick of this 'it's coming home' nonsense

[autumn57565]

It's not coming home. Who ever said England is home? It makes us look idiotic to the rest of the world. Someone on the radio said they really believe England is going to win this year. The rest of the world must be pissing themselves looking at England cheering over such a mediocre team and having such delusions of grandeur.

It also seems to make people behave like hooligans. I've seen some crazy driving before the matches start, and people were making noise until the early hours last night.

It's just a game! We never get this excited about the olympics, Wimbledon or even Rugby.

I loved that Andy Murray won Wimbledon twice! Tennis was invented by the French I think?

The Enhlidh invented it. End of.
😀

English ! Grr

Of course 'football's coming home' is a silly sentence - but it's fun!

We're having loads of enjoyment with it in our household...

"I've got to be home because football's coming home and it's forgotten its keys" "Football's on its way, it's just got on the train" "Where's it been?" etc etc.

It's just a bit of fun.

@Imstickingwiththisone - I wasn't being negative at all, I said it was endearing and that it was nice to see people being optimistic. I don't know much about football but I know it's an achievement to get to a quarter final. My point being that when Columbia equalised, my twitter feed was full of celebs saying things along the lines of "we fucked it up" or "curse of the penalty shootout, we're doomed, we always slip up at the end" etc... Then an hour later twitter is filled with "it's coming home". Like I said, it's endearing and my fingers are crossed that England do win on Saturday. I don't see why my amusement at the sharp turnaround in opinion should be seen as negative.

Apparently the Chinese invented football

I dont know one woman who likes it, thats because its utter shit.

Hello Rudgie. My name's Folly and I love football. Been watching it for over 40 years now. Could I also introduce you to my daughter? Oh and my season ticket holding female friends?

I would love Harry and the boys and Gareth S to ‘ bring it home’ - I really would!

Pmsl at the thought of someone writing a song about golf.

In our overscripted, fake, spoiler filled world, football is pretty much the last genuinely thrilling entertainment left. FiL, DH and the DS's love their football; going to the match on Saturdays, rain or shine, win or lose, is a genuinely bonding thing for them. To be honest, they love their club more than England, but the World Cup is still hugely enjoyable.

I've been to lots of football matches, it's not my favourite thing but it's good fun.

I understand the original line was “it’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming, the trophy that means a particular country have traversed a rigorous qualifying process, worked through the group stages into 4 knock out matches and triumphed over all in their way” but it didn’t scan.

*I’ve got to admit, I find “footballs coming home” a bit of an odd expression.

Football hasn’t gone anywhere*

I’ve been trying to explain exactly this, how the saying makes absolutely fuck all sense but to no avail. They just Don’t. Get. It. I’m not sure if it’s amusing or not.

OP you are talking out of your bum - I love football - my 3 girls love football - 2 play football

plenty of men cheering on the teams at the Women's FA cup this year

All countries claim they invented football. Just like fairytales, no one knows who invented it.

Oh sweetie. No.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football

The story of Gareth Southgate's managership is a classic underdog story - from missing the vital penalty in Euro 96, to possibly managing a world cup winning team.

And the team are young and keen. They even know the words of the National Anthem.

What's not to like?

They even know the words of the National Anthem

And do that really awesome tuneless singing with gusto. I love it.

The Southgate story is one of those everything happens for a reason tales. I honestly believe that if he hadn't missed in 1996, England wouldn't have won last night. Southgate missed in 1996 so England could bring football home in 2018

It's a fun song, I have even heard the Germans singing it, although not this year

Oh thank you for that link Jassy. Howard Webb is my guilty pleasure. He is very attractive in the flesh and oozes charisma. Fans self.

Because it's a bit of fucking fun every few years.

It's just a bit of fun. Maybe those of us in Scotland are more used to the 'omg - we've scored a goal, we must be going to win the whole competition' as that is our usual response to scoring a goal, a try, an advantage or really getting possession of the ball at all.

It doesn't happen often, just relax and enjoy it.

England are playing well. Which happens rarely. It’s the World Cup, happens every 4 years.

Stop being bitter they shifted the times of your brain rotting soaps op.

FWIW, OP I agree with you. I hate all the hype and nonsense about football. The ridiculous over excitement, people skiving work, behaving like louts, all over a game. This strange thinking that because England won once, over half a century ago, that somehow makes them the 'owners' of football forever.

By all means, watch it, and enjoy doing so, but it really doesn't need so much airtime before and after every match.

This strange thinking that because England won once, over half a century ago, that somehow makes them the 'owners' of football forever

Nobody thinks that. The "home" thing is because the English invented the game and spread it around the world.

"Footballs coming home" hope it enjoyed its fortnight in Tenerife 😎

God this is a depressing thread. Thankfully our household 3 x F + 1 x M are all having a ball this tournament.