England's 30 years of football hurt: Hope persists despite trophy drought
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Mark Damazer
Summary
This article reflects on England's enduring failure in major men's international football tournaments, 30 years after the iconic song "Three Lions" captured the nation's cycle of hope and disappointment. It explores how English fans remain addicted to optimism despite decades of underperformance, with neither the World Cup nor the Euros ever "coming home." The piece uses the song's evolution and the team's history to examine the psychology of persistent hope in the face of repeated failure.
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· 4 pulledThirty years ago, England's underperformance at major men's international football tournaments turned David Baddiel and Frank Skinner into troubadours of both misery and desperate-sounding optimism.
But it turns out that '30 years of hurt' was, at best, only half-time.
Neither the World Cup nor the other big prize the team competes for—the Euros—has 'come home'.
Despite their team's long history of failure, England fans are hooked on the most toxic drug of all: hope
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