The sounds of ‘Football’s Coming Home’ will ring out across Lytham Green on Saturday as The Lightning Seeds have promised to play their iconic anthem ‘Three Lions’ at Festival ahead of England’s quarter final Euros game.

The Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie was the writer of the legendary 1996 hit, alongside David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. And now the band are looking forward to facing the Lytham spotlight the very same day as England’s quarter final game against Switzerland.

Ian said, ‘I mean, it’s funny because the song is all about suffering, while supporting, and you couldn’t really run it more than the other night. It was hard to enjoy that game. We’re through though – they seem to be relying on a little bit of luck.

I think he’ll make some substitutions next time and they’ll get all the good players on before 2 seconds from the end.’

The band are playing before the match, but Ian says it might be a nice positive start before the game.

Ian continued, ‘We’re going to go on before England plays just to avoid that Very dilemma because you can’t rely on them can you?. You know what I mean? We all know that. So we think it’s a better idea of we all well, we’re in a great mood, sing three lions and go into the game on a note of real positivity. And then it’s up to the team. We certainly wouldn’t play it if we lost.

Switzerland are good but we’re probably better so let’s beat them. Is football coming home? Well, I wouldn’t want to tempt fate, but it’s got to at some time, doesn’t it?’