Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
England winning does not equate to football coming home. They have very little pedigree in the tournament, they certainly haven't won it before. the default state in international tournaments certainly isn't England winning.
I always thought the original song was about the tournament (in 1996) being played IN England - i.e. the football coming home to it's roots. Still a slightly arrogant notion, as nobody outside of England really considers England to be the home of football.
It's just a topical saying really. To paraphrase Kasper, "Has it been home before ? You've never actually won it". Even more pertinent coming from a Dane because Denmark have won it.

Whichever way you look at it, it is still an arrogant notion based on a sense of entitlement. Although to be fair I suspect there was a sense of self-deprecation when Three Lions was penned, based on a lifetime of near misses and abject failure by the England team.