In autumn of 1996, Labour opposition leader Tony Blair addressed his party's conference with the quote "Seventeen years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming, Labour's coming home", a play on words from the song's chorus and in reference to his confidence that Labour would return to power at the forthcoming general election, having been in the opposition since the Conservatives ousted them from government in 1979. When the election was held on 1 May 1997, Labour won by a landslide. The indie band Los Campesinos! adapted the song for a track on their fourth album "Hello Sadness", called "Every Defeat a Divorce (Three Lions)". The song is based on the lead singer comparing watching England defeated in the 1998 World Cup with his parents' concurrent divorce. This anthem is also used as welcome song during football games of French club team RC Strasbourg Alsace. In 1997, German comedy pop duo Original Deutschmacher produced a cover version titled "Das W auf dem Trikot" ("the W on the jersey") as a tribute to Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. Deutschmacher member Arnd Zeigler, a popular radio and TV host, also works as the club's stadium announcer, and the cover version has since been adopted as official stadium hymn at its home ground, the Weserstadion. Liverpool comedy trio The Scaffold recorded a reworking of the song, titled "3 Shirts on a Line", for the 2008 charity album "Liverpool – The Number Ones Album", the title referencing the three League clubs of Merseyside; Liverpool, Everton and Tranmere Rovers. In summer 2018, the song enjoyed a renaissance due to the England national team's performance in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in which they reached the semi-finals, and this caused the song to reach number 1 in the UK top 40. After Croatia eliminated England in the World Cup semi-final, Croatia's captain Luka Modrić said that his team had understood the song's refrain as disrespect which had additionally motivated them to win the match. When the song reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart of 13 July 2018 - 19 July 2018  it became one of the records having the biggest jump to number 1 (vaulting from number 24) and then, the week after, broke the record for biggest ever drop, slumping to number 97.