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Now with the Southgate version coming out in time for the England v Denmark game at Wembley, Blues fan Liz says she’s got double the excitement – and double the nerves. “We thought it was a great idea, then a big record company came in and it’s all gone from there.” “He said, ‘I think you should record this because everyone’s going mad for it’,” says Liz.

Liz says since then her phone hasn’t stopped ringing, and it was then that her friend Scotty who was the Kittens’ marketing manager suggested the new version really needed to happen. “We couldn’t believe the reaction, we only realised afterwards what a massive deal it was.” The noise was so loud you could only just about hear us singing, everyone was filming it and the video went everywhere. “That was where we decided for the first time ever that we’d sing the Southgate lyrics and the crowd just went nuts.

At first we said no, then we got offered this gig at a party in Boxpark in Croydon where everyone was watching the match. “But with the Euros it’s started up again and people were telling us we should record it. “It first happened three years ago for the World Cup and it just snowballed, then obviously we went out at the semi-finals and we thought that was that.

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“You can hear it so clearly when you’re watching the match on TV and everybody’s referencing it all the time, calling it the Southgate ballad, it’s been very strange,” she says. Although she admits it’s been surreal hearing thousands chanting it on the terraces and in bars up and down the country.

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