23-07-2024, 15:20
(23-07-2024, 12:57)Devongone Wrote: Yet if England isn't football's home why do all these crazed multiple club investors keep rushing in to buy creakily-financed English clubs? Why is our league the best in the world? Why do most of the outposts of world football relate back to England in their foundation?
My objection to the song is that it sounds like unintentional colonialism. We're the sun you can't manage without and whether the rest of you become planets, asteroids or bits of milky way ranked 193 by FIFA, you get to orbit around us. The song goes on almost forever because even when we lose the process of coming home continues.
In this case isn't the truth that HOME is where the money is?
To be fair we are reading far too much into a song!! It was written in 1996 for the Euro tournament that summer. The coming home bit was referring to a tournament being held in England for the first time since 1966, which was also the last time England won anything. England is the home of organized football. When it was written, it was apt for that summer but it has hung around ever since while England still wait for another tournament win, it doesn't do any harm, it doesn't incite anything sinister, its just a song!!