As Gareth Southgate’s England team prepare to face Italy within the Euro 2020 final, fans are volleying football songs back to the charts.

Three Lions is the hottest song within the run-up to the match, jumping 18 places to number four.

Five more anthems achieved the subs bench and placed within the Top 100, including Fat Les’s Vindaloo (36) and Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline (48).

But Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits saw off the competition to stay at favorite .

His new single spends its second week at the highest with 103,000 chart sales, including 10.9 million streams – an improvement on its opening week performance.

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Olivia Rodrigo is at number two together with her pop-punk anthem Good 4 U, while her debut album Sour returns to the highest of the album chart.

Rodrigo managed to ascertain a challenge from ’70s rock legends Queen, who released a 40th anniversary edition of their Greatest Hits album last Friday.

The collection – already the biggest-seller of all time within the UK – leapt copy the charts to number two, with most of its sales approaching CD, cassette and vinyl.

Chart record

Regardless of England’s fortunes in Sunday’s game , the Three Lions could find themselves topping next week’s charts.

Originally recorded for Euro ’96, it’s already reached a record-breaking fourfold – last after England’s semi-final defeat within the 2018 World Cup .

The song’s famous “football’s coming home” chant was written by The Lightning Seeds and comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel, who have sold quite 1.6 million copies of the song within the last 25 years.