Three Lions - the football anthem that united a nation

Three Lions - the football anthem that united a nationTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Three Lions co-writer David Baddiel remembers when 80,000 England fans sang the song at Euro '96BySimon CassonBBC Sport senior journalistPublished1 minute ago"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'."Thirty years after the song's release, David Baddiel remains proud of it and fondly recalls a time when football so nearly came home."I think it's a fantastic example of something that wasn't designed to be a really popular thing," Baddiel says. "There was no top-down element of it. It was just three blokes trying to write about football and it caught fire."You can say that again. People of a certain age will remember it as the soundtrack to the English summer in 1996 - a time of Britpop, Cool Britannia and England coming close to winning a major tournament.And for new generations of football fans it's become the England song everyone knows and sings at major events.Liam Edwards, born in 1997, from the England Supporters Travel Club, says: "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. I've been in some weird places - like Kaliningrad in Russia - where all you could hear was 'it's coming home'. We also sang it at the Qatar World Cup and at Euro 2020."So how did Three Lions come about? Back in 1996, Baddiel and fellow comedian Frank Skinner were established...