{"id":5341,"date":"2026-06-24T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:48:27","slug":"world-cup-2026-why-do-england-fans-sing-sweet-caroline-and-wonderwall-at-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Why do England fans sing Sweet Caroline and Wonderwall at matches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In more recent times, the Oasis hit &#8216;Wonderwall&#8217; has also become part of England&#8217;s catalogue of popular anthems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s players sang along to the 1995 tune along with their fans in Dallas following their 4-2 opening group stage victory over Croatia in a clip that has since gone viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wonderwall is arguably one of the nation&#8217;s most recognisable pop songs, and received another boost in popularity following Oasis&#8217; reunion last year, which sparked one of the most successful artist tours in British history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the win over Croatia, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher reacted to footage of players and fans singing together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Upon the news that streams of the song had increased by more than 50%, Liam wrote on X: &#8220;And rightly so it&#8217;s a classic and I sound BIBLICAL on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His brother and fellow Oasis bandmate Noel Gallagher has also backed calls to make the song England&#8217;s World Cup anthem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;&#8216;Wonderwall&#8217; belongs to the people, and it was a magical moment between the people and the players,&#8221; Noel told The Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Best of luck to everyone who&#8217;s made the trip out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the Lions&#8217; Den podcast after the win over Croatia, captain Harry Kane said: &#8220;That was one of my favourite ever moments in an England shirt and especially at a major tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s official goal song at the tournament, played every time they score, is Chase the Sun by Planet Funk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This article is the latest from BBC Sport&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/ask-me-anything\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Ask Me Anything<\/i><\/a>  team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In more recent times, the Oasis hit &#8216;Wonderwall&#8217; has also become part of England&#8217;s catalogue of popular anthems. England&#8217;s players&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}