Mike Schur

It's the tradition.

It's the thing that makes that clubs, games famous.

Also, you know, the worst day probably in UK sports history was...

was a FA Cup match in which there was a collapse of the stands because of some very bad engineering and bad planning and crowd control.

And a lot of people died.

And so that has added this idea that the lyrics of the song take on a deeper meaning when moments like that happen.

So it was a thing I had been thinking about for 30 years of my life.

What will it be like to be in that stadium and hear that song and sing it?

And then it was exactly the way I pictured it, which is like for a fan, that's like as good as it gets, you know?

So this is a song that started... It was Rodgers and Hammerstein.

This was in the musical Carousel from 1945.

Then Jerry and the Pacemakers, Liverpool band.

They take it over in 63.

And it has become...

an anthem in which, again, one of the best parts of these videos, beyond hearing the palpable goose flesh, is seeing the faces of all these dudes who look like, in any other context, they're brandishing some prison weapon.

And they're just... Weeping.

They're weeping.

And so I am not somebody who's here to make everything about the male loneliness crisis.

But it's really hard.

But it's not not about that.