From Religion of Sports
‘History makers, record breakers, game changers’: the footie anthem pushing the Lionesses to World Cup glory
Forget Three Lions! A squad of superstar musicians have teamed up to release Call Me A Lioness, a rallying cry for the England women’s football team heading out to the World Cup
veryone seems to know the score; every time the World Cup rolls around, the same old song belts out from every pub in England. “Thirty years of hurt!” wails the chorus of David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, and The Lightning Seeds’ quintessential footie anthem Three Lions, “never stopped me dreaming”.
There’s an obvious issue, however. There are currently no years of hurt for the Lionesses – England’s national women’s football team – who stormed to victory last year at the Euros, and brought football home where the men had failed.
This is precisely why a squad of music stars are lining up to set the record straight as the women’s World Cup fast approaches, with a new tune for the country to get behind as they’re supporting the Lionesses in Australia and New Zealand.
Uniting behind the collective badge of Hope FC, the dream-team includes Spice Girls legend Mel C, rising pop star Self Esteem, and Ellie Rowsell of the Mercury Prize-winning indie band Wolf Alice, along with Sports Team’s Al Greenwood, Marika Hackman, Shura, Rachel Chinouriri, Jasmine Jethwa, Rose Gray, Highlyy, and Olivia Dean. Their charity single, Call Me A Lioness, hopes to be the rallying cry our women’s squad has been missing.
