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!!!
— AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax)
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
