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‘It’s coming home’: The story behind England’s World Cup anthem

As someone who has consumed roughly three million World Cup celebration videos over the past week or so, there are two things I know for sure:

  1. The best way to celebrate a goal is by hurling beer-filled cups into the sky.
  2. You can’t walk more than two street blocks in London without hearing someone sing the chorus from “Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home).”

The song, released 22 years ago from English band “The Lightning Seeds,” has shot to the top of the UK charts, and was streamed more than a million times on Spotify (doubling the all-time high from a few days earlier) when England played Sweden in the quarterfinals.