The soundtrack to England’s World Cup campaign – Three Lions – has been given a Dutch rewrite as Ajax welcomed Daley Blind back to the club by recording ‘Daley’s Coming Home’. The versatile defender, who emerged from the Ajax academy and broke into the first-team at his hometown club in 2008-09, returned after agreeing a transfer from Manchester United for a fee potentially rising to €20.5million.
Blind’s homecoming tune makes reference to the fact that Ajax have gone four years without winning the Eredivisie and harks back to the club’s glory days of the 1990s with lines like “Frank de Boer still gleaming”. Where England fans sing “Three Lions on a shirt” as originally penned by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds, Ajax’s version goes with “Three stars on a shirt” – the club’s shirt features three stars above the badge to reflect the achievement of winning more than 30 Dutch league titles.
DALEY = COMING HOME!!!
❌❌❌#HesComingHome pic.twitter.com/3qiMJWR81O
— AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax) July 17, 2018
Whether the song catches on at Johan Cruyff Arena remains to be seen, but the lyrics are as follows:
He’s coming home,
He’s coming home, he’s coming
Daley’s coming home
Everyone seems to know the score,
They’ve seen it all before
They just know, they’re so sure
That Ajax: gonna throw it away, gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
‘Cause I remember
Three stars on the shirt
Frank De Boer still gleaming
Four more years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
He’s coming home,
He’s coming home, he’s coming
Daley’s coming home