The phrase 'Losing in front of your home crowd' is a well-used sporting cliche in England, most commonly used in football (the David Beckham type, Americans) but also in all sports. Teams play home games and away games, and they are expected to win their home games, so losing in front of your home crowd is one of the worst feelings in sport.
I think it starts with reference to a sport (quite possibly boxing as per the title), but just goes on to describe the feeling of being a failure in the town you grew up in, I think.
It's such an incredible world-weary melody that just depresses the hell out of me, but also makes me joyous when I sing along! The man is a genius, God knows where he gets these melodic ideas from. I always just took the title 'Boxers' to be a kind of homo-erotic reference, but maybe that's just me!
This song has been stuck in my head for the last few days, and I even used it as my Facebook status the other day ("Nick is losing in front of his hometown"). I also thought they should have used this song as the credits rolled on 'Match Of The Day' (a British football programme) on the first day of the season, as so many teams did lose in front of their home crowds this weekend!
The phrase 'Losing in front of your home crowd' is a well-used sporting cliche in England, most commonly used in football (the David Beckham type, Americans) but also in all sports. Teams play home games and away games, and they are expected to win their home games, so losing in front of your home crowd is one of the worst feelings in sport.
I think it starts with reference to a sport (quite possibly boxing as per the title), but just goes on to describe the feeling of being a failure in the town you grew up in, I think.
It's such an incredible world-weary melody that just depresses the hell out of me, but also makes me joyous when I sing along! The man is a genius, God knows where he gets these melodic ideas from. I always just took the title 'Boxers' to be a kind of homo-erotic reference, but maybe that's just me!
This song has been stuck in my head for the last few days, and I even used it as my Facebook status the other day ("Nick is losing in front of his hometown"). I also thought they should have used this song as the credits rolled on 'Match Of The Day' (a British football programme) on the first day of the season, as so many teams did lose in front of their home crowds this weekend!