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It's Not Coming Home

Updated: Jul 28, 2023


 

Don't be sad that it's over, be glad that it happened. England's biggest game in, ooh, four days, has had a strange effect on the general population. For four days folks have been prone to spontaneous outbursts of "it's coming home" (a real toughie on a harmonica, I can tell you), or of extolling the virtues of one of the spicier curries. Even if football doesn't come home, the positive effect the antics of the current team have had on the country as a whole cannot be discounted. Folks have generally been smiling about things, and even those who don't "do" football are admitting a growing attachment to the beautiful game, and more of an understa