Italy and Spain fans decided to BOO the England supporters’ chant at Wembley during what was a thrilling contest on Tuesday night.
Jorginho scored the winning spot-kick after Alvaro Morata’s penalty was saved in the Azzuri’s shoot-out win, which sends them into Sunday’s Euro 2020 final.
Spain striker Morata – who has been criticised throughout the tournament – had tasted redemption when he came off the bench to hit home his side’s equaliser in normal time, after Federico Chiesa had scored on the break for Italy.
However, he never looked confident from 12 yards out and when his poor effort was saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma, his former Chelsea team-mate Jorginho coolly rolled in his spot kick.
A large number of supporters within the national stadium were English, with the attendance around the 60,000 mark.
And the Three Lions’ trademark chant broke out a number of times despite it being 24 hours before Gareth Southgate’s side take on Denmark in the other semi final clash.
After hearing the famous chant, the thousands of Spain and Italy supporters inside the ground, who outnumbered the English contingent, merrily booed the tune – intent on taking centre stage themselves on Tuesday.
Both nations were well represented at Wembley for a repeat of the Euro 2012 final with more than one group of Azzurri fans playing on the English song with banners that read: “It’s Coming Rome.”
England fans at Wembley: “It’s coming home…”
Everyone else:
Watch and listen on the BBC https://t.co/aSUp58i3Qr #ITAESP #euro2020 #bbceuro2020 pic.twitter.com/6Z5mOMKFeb
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) July 6, 2021
Some viewers found that chanting ‘It’s coming home’ was to be a bit much during a game involving two other teams, though some found it a funny addition to the start of the game.
Twitter user Matt posted: “England fans chanting it’s coming home in the Italy vs Spain game is top tier s***housery.
While Dan wrote: “Pretty sure I just heard England fans singing “it’s coming home” at the Italy V Spain game. Love that!”
Italy boss Roberto Mancini: “We’re delighted to have been able to provide this wonderful evening’s entertainment to the Italian people. We still have one game to go and we want to do exactly that if possible. We knew it was going to be a very tough match because in terms of ball possession, Spain are the best around and they would cause us problems.
“We had to dig in when we needed to. We tried to score and create opportunities when we needed to, it was a very open match and there were some issues because we didn’t have too much possession. However, we wanted to make it into the final and we kept trying right until the end. As ever, penalties are a lottery but I really want to take my hat off to Spain, they are a wonderful team.
“I thank the players because they believed from day one that we could produce something incredible. We haven’t yet done everything we need to, there’s still one step to go and now we have to rest up because this really was very challenging.”
Spain boss Luis Enrique: “It’s not a sad night for me, not at all. Of course there is disappointment but that’s football. You have to be able to win and lose. We were very pleased to win the shoot-out in the quarter-finals but we have to congratulate our opponents. I said at the start we were one of eight teams that could win the title, I wasn’t wrong about that. We go home knowing we competed and were one of the best teams at the competition.
“I’d say it would be an A- for my players, an A+ if we’d won. We’ve been speaking about how we’d like to play at the Euros for many months, the players bought into it, I have no complaints. We’ve shown we’re a team and we’re going to continue doing that.
“Morata has gone through some tough times during this competition but he was brilliant, he created a lot of uncertainty in the Italian ranks, he scored, he was excellent. I haven’t been able to see him because he went to doping control but I will go and see him now.”
Meanwhile, Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel also became the latest England opponent to poke some fun at the chants as he faced the media on Tuesday.
After being asked by an English journalist what it would mean to break the hearts of fans who want football to come home, Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel fell into the same trap.
“Has it ever come home” 😂
Kasper Schmeichel gives a brilliant response when asked what it would mean to stop it ‘Coming Home’ – Hojberg’s face is priceless! 🤣#Euro2020 #ENG #DEN #ENGDEN pic.twitter.com/dZ3Icch2Vw
— The Sun Football ⚽ (@TheSunFootball) July 7, 2021
“Has it ever been home? I don’t know, have you ever won it?” he said, before being reminded of 1966. “Was that not the World Cup?
“To be honest, I haven’t given any thought to what it would mean to stop England more than what it would do for Denmark.
“To be honest, I’ve focused very little on the England national team. It doesn’t really mean anything to me.
“It’s what it would do for our country back home. The joy it would bring to a country of only five-and-a-half million to be able to do something like that, or compete with the nations we’re competing with.
“So, yeah, not really a lot of thought to England’s feelings in this.”
Top shithousery from the England fans chanting ‘its coming home’ to the reply of boos at Wembley for Italy vs Spain 😂🏴
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— Betting Hub (@BettingHub) July 6, 2021
@moe_official10: Context: Football was invented in England which makes it the home of football.
@Grant_Grieve13: Well…it is in your nature to appropriate other people things as a country. Earliest evidence of a relatable football-like event is 3rd century China. Not sure where you got that the english invented it. But that’s just factually wrong.
@fonosayno: Schmeichel trolling the British press is wonderful. Haven’t Denmark even won the Euros before?
@classiclib3ral: The Schmeichel family alone has more Euro championships than all of England
@NAKay14: Epic fail from the journo. Terrible question.
@QPRjones: He will see why it’s coming home when he’s picking the ball out of his net for the third time in the first half. Bang average keeper, living off his father’s reputation.
@Alex_Murray92: Yea that premier league title with Leicester was off the back of his dads reputation as well…
@Dazzler2909: If any motivation Is required show the England squad this.
@CiaranJT7: The shock on the journalist as he realised the world does not revolve around England
@randka1: It’s a great catchy song about hope, hope in that one day we can win a bloody tournament, nothing arrogant about it. Cheers
@PapaQuonis: The arrogance was in the reporter’s question. Why would A Danish player be thinking about what it would mean to England to win this tournament. Embarrassing question and Kasper gave it the response it deserved.
@mozzamaura: Not a nice chap is he? I just hope England don’t lose their “out to win” mentality because a Danish player was taken seriously ill in an earlier match. The Danes aren’t grieving, the player survived and they’ll be aggressive as usual. England – just do the business #ENGDEN
@MontyDK1: 5 out of 7 games played on home pitch. 60,000 spectators for the game, and no Danes allowed to travel there to support their team. That’s hardly “out to win”, more like “home to win”. Let’s see how that goes
@MikeDFinsUK: We invented the sport, that’s what coming home means, nothing to do with winning anything.
@munimali: The song written in 96 where it says “30 years of hurt” clearly referencing the lack of wining since 66.
@BainesOnToast_: Three Lions 96 is about England being shit and always letting you down, but you still have hope every time a tournament coming round. It’s not arrogance, it’s humour.
@andyl_77: Absolutely. You’ve only got to listen to the lyrics to get this…”everyone seems to know the score; they’ve seen it all before…” etc. It is not an arrogant song, FFS!
@G27086526: He’s right – the songs getting embarrassing now
@scog27: Kasper went there because he’s absolutely right.
@lazlopuskas: Football’s coming Rome!
@markgerardcox: Seriously?! Who is asking this question? It’s no wonder Schmeichel is laughing, like a lot of people are. The Danish players aren’t there to “stop it coming home”, they are there to try and win the game for themselves, their stricken teammate and their country.
@Vasco_De_Gamer: Why would Kasper really care less about England? Why does every press conference, every game & every tournament turn in to all about England? I have no issues as a Scot wishing England well, but this turning everything in to something about England. Please stop it.
Italy & Spain hearing Its coming home all around Wembley today
Italians : https://t.co/0HKCwUCicC— Abzzz🏴 (@Abzz_10) July 6, 2021
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