[Crimson Dynamo]

The nation is bursting with pride after England finally beat the Germans in
tournament knockout football for the first time since 1966. The English are
belting out ‘Three Lions’ on repeat up and down the country, daring to dream
that maybe, just maybe this time it is actually coming home.


So naturally, Woke Twitter considers it its duty to attempt to bring the mood
down by taking offence to the song’s co-writer David Baddiel for being on the
airwaves on Wednesday, dragging up a sketch involving him blacking up as ex-
footballer Jason Lee on a fantasy football TV show back in *checks notes*
1994.



Baddiel was invited onto Radio 4’s Today programme to offer his
thoughts on England’s chances and to reminisce about the classic hit, co-
written with Frank Skinner and the English rock band the Lightning Seeds
ahead of Euro ’96, however it didn’t take some social media users long to fire
up the cancel culture mob and get him trending on Twitter, renewing their
outrage over a comedy sketch which was on the telly some 27 years ago.

They even turned on one of their own, woke idol James O’Brien (LBC), who clearly
didn’t get the memo that Baddiel was now public enemy number one and
must be burned at the stake for his unforgivable crime…

Baddiel apologised for the outdated comedy show last year, insisting he
regretted “the make-up and costume, which however much it might have
been in the show’s tradition of dressing up to look like footballers in a silly
cartoon way, was also part of another very bad racist tradition.”

https://foxhole.news/2021/06/30/the-...david-baddiel/

should he be cancelled?