Three Lions was released in 1996 as the official song for UEFA Euro 1996, hosted in England, and was written by comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner with Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds. Built around the hopeful line that football is coming home, it captured England fans' mixture of optimism and decades of near misses. The song topped the charts again during later tournaments, including the 2018 World Cup, and has since become a ritual chant at matches, in pubs and across social media whenever England reach the later stages.