‘It’s coming home, football is coming home’ to England

‘It’s coming home, football’s coming home’, is a phrase the English had been singing for decades.

After winning the World Cup in 1966 on home soil, England have been waiting for 60 painful, agonising years for further glory at the senior level.

Having claimed to have invented modern football around 1863, England’s success is minimal, yet they always believe they are the best.

For the last 24 years, the English talk about Golden Generation but they have not delivered; they are getting closer, having reached the semi-final of the 2018 World Cup and the final of the 2020 Euros and lost both times to Italy.

They reached the quarter-final of the last World Cup in 2022 before being eliminated by the 2018 champions, France, who went on to lose the final to Argentina on penalties following a pulsating 3-3 draw.

Once again, the chant of “It’s coming home” is reverberating throughout England, but there might be a legitimate reason, because in their ranks they have one of the most lethal strikers in the game—Harry Edward Kane.

The 32-year-old Kane has all the attributes to lead England from in front as the captain and has been the mainstay over the years

The Thomas Tuchel-coached England is among the favourites to lift the World Cup along with the usual protagonists Brazil, Germany, France, Argentina, Spain and Portugal. They are ranked fourth in the world behind Argentina, Spain and France.

They are drawn in Group L alongside Croatia, Ghana and Panama and are fancied to not only come out of the group as winners but go very far in the tournament.

Standing at 6ft 2 inches, Kane is the ultimate striker, powerful in the air, lethal with both feet and very strong physically.

The Bayern Munich goal machine has 79 goals for England from 114 games and is England’s all-time leading goalscorer.

In 2018, Kane won the Golden Boot award as England finished fourth. He led England to the final of the Euros in 2020 and is on course to create history for England, but can he bring home the FIFA World Cup trophy?

The Three Lions, as they are known, are a very good team and are due to produce the goods at some point.

They are by far a certainly not a one-man team. With the likes of Anthony Gordon, Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, Nico O’Reilly and John Stones, they are a dangerous team.