These lads need a history lesson.
Even if you can’t give the current England side any credit for scraping their way into the quarter-finals, there’s one thing you have to give the English credit for.
‘Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)’ is an absolute banger of a tune.
The song has formed the basis for the narrative around England’s 2018 World Cup performance so far, and England fans are genuinely starting to believe that it is indeed coming home.
Spend any time at all on Twitter, though, and you’ll notice something extremely disturbing. Lots of England fans really don’t know the words to the song. And it’s one lyric in particular that seems to confuse them.
Just found out the lyrics to Football’s Coming Home aren’t ‘Jewels remain still gleaming’ and it’s actually ‘Jules Remet still gleaming’ which is the old World Cup trophy 🤯🤯
— Jess Temby (@JessTemby) June 25, 2018
Who tf is jules rimet? It’s jewels remain!
— Zack Free Man Whyte (@TheRealWhytee) July 4, 2018
Na I’ll always know england to of one the World Cup not some French guys name
— Zack Free Man Whyte (@TheRealWhytee) July 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/connordrbs/status/1014251850378465285
Just hello hi sorry but wtf do you mean the words aren’t “Jewels remain still gleaming”??????
Everything I’ve ever known is a lie pic.twitter.com/Vhhw7OfgHW
— Jameela (@jameelajulea) July 2, 2018
Seriously can’t overstate just how many of them think that these are the words…
Half time and jewels remain still gleaming.
— Andy Parker (@tabamatu) July 3, 2018
🦁🦁🦁 on a 👕 jewels remain still gleaming keep the faith guys PMA 🙌
— Tracey Mawhinney (@TracMawh64) July 3, 2018
Jewels status: still gleaming
— El (@langho) July 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/epiphanykth/status/1013464929381355522
JEWELS REMAIN STILL GLEAMINGGGG
— Sam Fernley (@Ferntrees) July 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/rachclarke27/status/1014400463414886401
This guy thinks it’s such a foregone conclusion that those words are literally the only words he has focused on:
https://twitter.com/LoadedUnLoaded/status/1014250868928020481
Now, Ireland may not have ever actually WON a World Cup, but we are fairly strong on our history. Unfortunately, it’s fallen upon us to let them across the water know that… It’s not “jewels remain still gleaming”. The lyrics of the song by Frank Skinner, Dave Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds are: “Jules Rimet still gleaming.”
The Jules Rimet trophy was the name of the original World Cup trophy — and it was the trophy that the English side won back in 1966. You’d think their fans would know that but… go figure. Wouldn’t be like England to forget their history.
