World In Motion or 3 Lions?


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Agreed.Just watched it again and it's a joyful song and an excellent feel good video.Can't see the fuss about World In Motion,find it quite bland tbh.For me,the Pavarotti song was the soundtrack for Italia 90.
As for 3 Lions,it captured the mood of the nation in 96. I used to play it before every England match to get myself pumped up.I also remember the BBC playing Walkaway by Cast after we lost the semi final shootout against Germany and being reduced to a blubbering mess.
How can you say WIM is bland...it's got John Barnes rapping man!!😜 doesn't get any better than that! Imagine Harry Kane doing it!
 
World in motion is my favourite though. Maybe just because of the nostalgia of italia 90... but mainly because it was so cool... at a time, going into the tournament when football in England was anything but cool.
I think people forget how unfashionable it was to like football before Italia 90.

World in Motion was a big part of turning that perception around.

Design legend Peter Saville created the sleeve and the merchandise and was later asked to design an England kit: Joy Division designer Peter Saville tackles England kit

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A little WTF moment for those of a certain age - WIM released 24 years after '66 (31 years ago!) - 3 Lions 30 years after (25 years ago)....

Crazy to think that 1966 was about as close in time to those tournaments as they are to now....
 
A little WTF moment for those of a certain age - WIM released 24 years after '66 (31 years ago!) - 3 Lions 30 years after (25 years ago)....

Crazy to think that 1966 was about as close in time to those tournaments as they are to now....

I was in the pub at the weekend talking to a couple of 21 year olds about what the atmospheres for Italia 90 and Euro 96 were like. To them they are just an historic events from before they were born like England 66 is to me.

Italia 90 was still the best tournament for me even if the football wasn't the greatest. I was 18, just finished A Levels and had nothing to do all summer apart from drink, fail to get laid and watch the World Cup.
 
I was in the pub at the weekend talking to a couple of 21 year olds about what the atmospheres for Italia 90 and Euro 96 were like. To them they are just an historic events from before they were born like England 66 is to me.

Italia 90 was still the best tournament for me even if the football wasn't the greatest. I was 18, just finished A Levels and had nothing to do all summer apart from drink, fail to get laid and watch the World Cup.
Italia '90 still my favourite aswel mate. Masaively booated football, even though he's a mag, it was down to Gazza. His first away game after that for Spurs was against us at Roker Park and the place was electric.
 
There isn't a country in the world that wouldn't want World in Motion as their tournament song.

This is one of the comments on Youtube, 'I'm German, but this song makes me want to support England'.
 
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