The last FA-ratified England World Cup song was Embrace’s World At Your Feet in 2006. Scotland’s last World Cup appearance in 1998 was accompanied by the downbeat Del Amitri dirge Don’t Come Home Too Soon.

New Order’s World In Motion, recorded for England’s 1990 World Cup campaign, remains the outstanding example of the genre.

A Scottish FA insider said official tournament songs had had their day. Scotland fans have adopted Yes Sir, I Can Boogie as an unofficial anthem for the last two Euros, inspired by the former Scotland and Aberdeen defender Andrew Considine’s remarkable cross-dressing video he made for his stag do, which is well worth googling.

Belle and Sebastian, the Scottish indie band, played their World Cup offering at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday night called It Only Takes One Lion.