If there's one thing you can guarantee from England's Euro 2020 semi final vs Denmark on Wednesday night it's that Three Lions will be sung, but if it were up to Graeme Souness the song would actually be banned.
Baddiel and Skinner's famous song, originally released for Euro 96, is possibly the greatest football song ever made, especially as John Barnes specifically raps about World in Motion not being a football song.
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With the tournament 25 years ago hosted in England, the song really took hold of the entire nation.
23 years later, at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the song reappeared in a big way, with Gareth Southgate's team getting to England's first semi final since 96.
Luka Modric was famously fuming at the Three Lions' arrogance for the song and the Real Madrid midfielder wasn't the only one who was annoyed about it.
"If I was Gareth Southgate, sitting down to write his Russia 2018 report for the Football Association," the Scot opened his column for The Times.
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"Then top of my notepad would be the following: never allow that song, Football's Coming Home, to be played again during a major tournament.
"Football's coming home, is it? So, England effectively own the sport. I don't think so.
"They didn't have a monopoly on it when their teams and the FA were big players in the global power game back in the last century, and they don't now."
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Despite Souness sounding like a bitter Scotsman, he insisted, in the wake of England's loss to Croatia, that it wasn't born out of jealousy.
In fact the former Liverpool midfielder claimed that, if anything, he was looking out for the good of England's national team.
"You can say: it's just a song, only a bit of fun. But if I'm an opposition player, it would irritate the life out of me." the world's most easily irritable man added.
"That's my motivation there and then, and that's how Croatia said they had channelled the song.
"These are not the words of a bitter and twisted Scotsman. I have spent most of my working life in England and want to see the national team do well."
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The song hasn't seemed to have affected England, or any of their opponents, enough three years after Souness said it should be banned.
On Wednesday, Southgate has the chance to be the first manager to lead the team to the final of a major tournament since Sir Alf Ramsey did it in 1966.
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