Dear Americans who follow me. You may have, if you know any English people, started seeing variations on the phrase "It's coming home" pop up all over the place. Baffled? I'm here to help
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England has a complicated relationship with our sports teams. We invented many of the major sports played over the world - Football, Rugby, Cricket, Tennis. Even the format of the modern Olympiad which is modeled after the Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games.
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(if you squint then Baseball and Basketball are basically just Rounders and Netball but at that point then I'm straying into trolling territory).
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The problem is that, modulo occasional flashes of brilliance, we're not that great at any of them. Actually, that's a little harsh - we actually do ok at a lot of them competing at a high level in more international sports than many other countries.
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But ... Britain in general has a tendency towards tall poppy syndrome, a healthy streak of cynicism and self-deprecation and we often feel like our sports teams have a tendency to choke at important moments.
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Which leads us back to "It's coming home". The phrase, as popularised in this context, comes from the 1996 song "Three Lions" by The Lightning Seeds along with archetypal New Lad comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel, released for the Euro 96 football tournament
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A lad accosted me on the way back to @jaffathecake's from the pub asking "where are you from?"...you can guess what got sung next
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