"It doesn't bother me that even though I've done many other things in my career, when I'm dead they'll say 'best known for co-creating the England football anthem Three Lions'."
"I think it's a fantastic example of something that wasn't designed to be a really popular thing. There was no top-down element of it. It was just three blokes trying to write about football and it caught fire."
"Even as a kid I remember just being enlightened by this song. I think it's kind of embedded in England football history. It means community, togetherness and unity over one thing - that we're desperate to see England win! I think it's a song that follows the journey and wherever the England national team sends us we'll sing it."
"Back in 1996, Baddiel and fellow comedian Frank Skinner were established stars. Their football comedy show Fantasy Football League was a big hit and pulled in six million viewers. When The Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie was asked by the Football Association to write the music for an England song for Euro '96, he felt Baddiel and Skinner were the natural choice to write some words."
Three Lions remains a proud, widely recognized England football song decades after its 1996 release. The song is remembered as part of the English summer in 1996, when Britpop and Cool Britannia coincided with England coming close to winning a major tournament. It is described as an example of something not designed to be popular, created without top-down direction by three men writing about football. Fans associate it with community, togetherness, and unity, and they sing it at major events and in distant locations. The song’s creation involved the Football Association asking Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie to write music, with Baddiel and Frank Skinner chosen to write the words.
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