Sejarah dan Lirik Lagu Football is Coming Home (Three Lions)

KOMPAS.com - Slogan “Football is Coming Home” mengiringi perjalanan timnas Inggris dalam ajang Euro 2020 yang telah memasuki fase semifinal.

Kalimat populer di antara pendukung timnas Inggris tersebut, dapat diartikan secara langsung menjadi “sepak bola pulang ke rumah”.

Seperti diketahui, pelopor dari sepak bola modern adalah Inggris. Sehingga, suporter The Three Lions menganggap tanah Inggris adalah tanah kelahiran sepak bola.

Para pendukung timnas Inggris melontarkan kalimat ini setiap kali skuad kebanggaan mereka tampil dalam kejuaraan besar seperti Euro atau Piala Dunia.

Di balik seruan tersebut, terdapat harapan bahwa skuad Inggris mampu kembali meraih prestasi sejak kali terakhir menjadi juara Piala Dunia 1966 di kandang sendiri.

Melansir laman The Independent, munculnya slogan “football is coming home” dikutip para suporter dari potongan lirik lagu berjudul “Three Lions” yang rilis pada 1996 lalu.

Lagu tersebut merupakan karya duo komedian Inggris, Frank Skinner dan David Baddiel, menyambut gelaran Piala Eropa 1996 yang berlangsung di negara mereka.

Berkat bantuan Ian Broudie, personil grup musik The Lightning Seeds, duet Skinner dan Baddiel menulis lirik lagu Football is Coming Home (Three Lions) mengenai kekecewaan terhadap kiprah timnas Inggris usai periode 1966.

Salah satu momen paling diingat terkait lagu Three Lions, adalah gema suporter menyanyikannya usai kemenangan 0-2 atas Skotlandia pada penyisihan grup Euro 1996 di Stadion Wembley.

Momen hampir serupa terulang usai kemenangan timnas Inggris atas Jerman dalam laga 16 besar, 29 Juni lalu.

Dukungan melalui nyanyian potongan lagu Three Lions tersebut bukan kali ini saja mewarnai kiprah timnas Inggris di kejuaraan besar.

Bahkan, Skinner dan Baddiel diketahui sempat merekam ulang lagu tersebut jelang ajang Piala Dunia 1998 di Perancis maupun 2010 di Afrika Selatan.

Hanya saja, momentum dukungan para suporter yang membawakan lagu tersebut terlihat dalam gelaran Piala Dunia 2018.

Saat itu, skuad asuhan Gareth Southgate mampu melaju hingga semifinal sebelum takluk 1-2 dari Kroasia melalui babak tambahan waktu.

Berikut adalah lirik lagu Football is Coming Home (Three Lions) karya Frank Skinner dan David Baddiel seperti dilansir dari The Independent:

Three Lions

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.

Everyone seems to know the score,

They've seen it all before,

They just know, they're so sure

That England's gonna throw it away, gonna blow it away

But I know they can play.

'Cause I remember three lions on a shirt! 

Jules Rimet still gleaming,

Thirty years of hurt

Never stopped me dreaming.

So many jokes, so many sneers,

But all those 'oh so nears'

Wear you down, through the years,

But I still see that tackle by Moore

And when Lineker scored,

Bobby belting the ball

And Nobby dancing.

Three lions on a shirt!

Jules Rimet still gleaming,

Thirty years of hurt

Never stopped me dreaming.

I know that was then, but it could be again.

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,

Thirty years of hurt

Never stopped me dreaming.

Three lions on a shirt!

Jules Rimet still gleaming,

Thirty years of hurt

Never stopped me dreaming.

Three lions on a shirt!

Jules Rimet still gleaming,

Thirty years of hurt

Never stopped me dreaming.*