To have misheard this football reference for so long?

[WorldCupnovice]

Have absolutely zero interest in football, but can't avoid it at the moment. I went into the room where my DP had on the England V Columbia match and he mentioned the England team logo. I said I hadn't realised that the lions represented England. He replied that I must have heard the Baddiel and Skinner song from years ago. Well bugger me , I always thought they were singing 3 'lines' on a shirt! So am I the biggest idiot in the world, or has anyone else misheard something for so long?

Oh I get to the bottom of the thread and there's 77 other people too 😂

@OwlBeThere, I thought it was "where nobody knows, if it's not a date" until just now. I thought it was talking about a lover's lane type place

For all those who thought ‘the jewels remain still gleaming’.... what did you think it meant?

@Knittedfairies

Not a clue.

I've never thought about it 😂

First heard the song as a young child during Euro 96

But I also thought the Bee Gees were singing 'stabilise stabilise' until I was at least 10 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm gobsmacked that it isn't jewels remain still gleaming !!

The Brazilian captain in 1970!had a fibre glass right foot

I thought it was lines too! But I was 10

I always heard it as the "fourth of may still dreaming"

[and I suspect we shall be still dreaming at some point in the next week....sorry, I'll get my coat and consider myself ghosted]
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@SoapOnARoap

What????

Thought you might enjoy this (complete with full lyrics):
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/three-lions-its-coming-home-england-fans-lyrics-wrong-world-cup-a8432656.html

I also thought it was 3 lines until recently!

You know. Like Adidas

Jeezo, even I knew it was "three Lions" and "Jules Rimet" and I'm Scottish.

I thought it was ‘three lines’ until embarrassingly far into adulthood - and I’m a football fan!
In my defence, most of my adult footballing musical knowledge has centered around Spurs chants

I just played the video to my 5 year old dd. She also thought they were saying "three lines on a shirt"!

Jules Rimet wasn't the designer of the trophy he was the chairman of FIFA who came up with the idea of the World Cup. He may have designed it as well I guess.

Also, I was absentmindedly singing ‘football’s coming home’ yesterday and my 2 year old very seriously said ‘no mummy, football not at home, football outside’
Clearly my lectures about how We Don’t Play With Balls At Home, Only Outside has paid off

I know someone who thought the British national anthem had the line 'Send her Victorias' (as in send Queen Elizabeth lots of Queen Victorias).

facepalm

Even I knew it was 3 lions!

Mind. Blown.

Thought was jewels remain. Just said to husband and he is shocked I didn't know.

I will still always believe it is jewels remain.

This has really made me laugh. Especially the sea lions😆

I probably couldn't name tell more than a couple of England pkayers these days, but I was more interested when the song first came out. And knew what they were actually singing about

I always knew that Jules referred to the name of the trophy but also thought the line was ‘Jules remains still gleaming’as in the trophy was nice and clean...

I have this wonderful vision now of someone polishing the trophy bumbum

Another in the "jewels remain still gleaming" camp...... Mind blown

I thought Rio Ferdinand was a team for quite a while much to DH's amusement 😳