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To have misheard this football reference for so long?

174 replies

WorldCupnovice · 06/07/2018 14:28

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?

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Candyflip · 06/07/2018 19:26

But what did people think “jewels remain still gleaming” meant? we had the fucking internet back in 1996, why did no one look it up? It wasn’t like the 80s when you had to get song lyrics from Smash Hits, or forever sing them wrong!

VioletCharlotte · 06/07/2018 19:27

Like a pp, I also thought it was "jewels remain still gleaming." And I thought it was "30 years apart" not "30 years of hurt".

CaptainCarp · 06/07/2018 19:34

Another 1 who thought it was "jewels remain still gleaming" also asked my partner & they thought the same! Grin

ScipioAfricanus · 06/07/2018 19:55

I actively avoid football but I was young in 1996 so I couldn’t help hearing the song everywhere. I have always known it was three lions on a shirt despite the bad pronunciation because of the three lions on shirts all over the place. For some reason I have also always known it was Jules Rimet still gleaming, although I assumed he was some kind of football player (weirdly French given the nationalistic song) who was gleaming having been immortalised in gilt on a trophy like those American sports trophies.

DoJo · 06/07/2018 23:24

But what did people think “jewels remain still gleaming” meant? we had the fucking internet back in 1996, why did no one look it up?

Personally, it's because I didn't give a single, shiny/gleaming shit. About that line or any of the others that barely make sense to me because they are referencing a sport I have not a single iota of interest in. I was alive then and living in England, so couldn't avoid being aware of the song, but did not care enough to even give it a second thought, let alone look it up. And I have continued to not care for a further 22 years. Until today!

BlackberryandNettle · 06/07/2018 23:52

'30 years of hurt' as a child I thought this was 'but he isn't hurt'. I did think the lyrics were a bit disjointed!

mostdays · 06/07/2018 23:59

The only reason I know it's Jules Rimet is because in some chick lit novel I had years ago, one of the main characters is mocked by her husband for thinking it's 'jewels remain'. I didn't think it was a great book tbh but at least it taught me that :)

Candyflip · 07/07/2018 01:23

But you care enough to come on this thread discussing it DoJo 😂 It even makes reference to football in the title!

DoJo · 07/07/2018 01:30

I don't care about football, but I do love a Mondegreen and an always up for finding out if I am harbouring shared misconceptions - fortunately they aren't mutually exclusive as I have learned something tonight which I can store away with all my other random trivia!

FoofFighter · 07/07/2018 01:33

I'm slightly disappointed that Nobby's dance isn't the Macarena Sad

Lycanthropology · 07/07/2018 03:51

I thought it was "jewels remain" too.
What a stupid song anyway.
And surely they're pronouncing "Jules Rimet" completely wrongly. He was French so would be "zhyool" not "jools".
And what does "footballs coming home even mean"?
Stupid song.

sashh · 07/07/2018 04:32

Did you know the Jules Rimet trophy was stolen before the 1966 World Cup and was found by a little dog called Pickles?

It was kept in a police station overnight. The police had a football match in the basement to 'win' it.

OP
What did you think the name of the song was?

Unihorn · 07/07/2018 05:14

MaterialReality
There's a nursery rhyme called the Lion and the Unicorn, about England and Scotland at war. It has bizarre lyrics.

I also thought it was 3 lines growing up in the 90s but I'm Welsh so didn't see the England badge around much/at all Grin I only owned Welsh shirts of course.

Candyflip · 07/07/2018 05:57

I love that they did that sashh

Jammydodger81 · 07/07/2018 06:31

Uniform that was always one of dd3’s favourites.

I knew the 3 lions lyrics but I am another one who has been singing ‘if it’s not our day’ to Oasis.

BeverlyGoldberg · 07/07/2018 06:32

Massive football fan here and I have sang that song so many times BUT I didn't know it was Jules Rimet either. I thought it was:

"Jewels we made still gleaming"

Like we made jewels of memories and they're still dazzling.

I shall not be admitting this to DH!

Sweetpea55 · 07/07/2018 06:34

DH had to explain to me that 'a grapefruit pass' was really a great through pass

toomuchtooold · 07/07/2018 06:35

Greatest football song ever

You've obviously not seen this yet then Grin

sparklefarts · 07/07/2018 07:25

Sisters 'If it's any consolation, I spent many years believing the next line was "Jewels remain still gleaming"

That's not what it says?!! BlushBlushBlush

sparklefarts · 07/07/2018 07:25

Oh just read further one.

Doh.

Leicesterpiggott · 07/07/2018 07:44

Ne around have explained it for da kidz!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44736620

Leicesterpiggott · 07/07/2018 07:44

Newsround, I mean...

PurpleFlower1983 · 07/07/2018 07:51

Grin at all the “jewels remain” posts! To be fair though, I wouldn’t have known what thr Jules Rimet was had my dad not explained it at the time.

TheOxymoron · 07/07/2018 07:57

You can gain back your dignity by asking them what the 3 lions represent?
So many die hard fans can’t answer.

Here is an answer I have found....

www.theguardian.com/football/2002/jul/18/theknowledge.sport

glamorousgrandmother · 07/07/2018 08:00

we had the Internet in 1996
I don't think many people did, I didn't, and if I had I wouldn't have bothered to look up the words of a football song.