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What a Match Football Coming Home Meme

This is a two-panel sports meme referencing a football match result. The top of the meme has the text "FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME". The upper panel shows a yellow school bus marked with the Mexican flag stuck on train tracks facing an oncoming train, representing Mexico competing against England. The lower panel shows the train, emblazoned with the English flag, having crashed into and destroyed the school bus, knocking it off the tracks, to represent England winning the match against Mexico.
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FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME

Overview

This is a two-panel sports meme referencing a football match result. The top of the meme has the text "FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME". The upper panel shows a yellow school bus marked with the Mexican flag stuck on train tracks facing an oncoming train, representing Mexico competing against England. The lower panel shows the train, emblazoned with the English flag, having crashed into and destroyed the school bus, knocking it off the tracks, to represent England winning the match against Mexico.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed. It edits the widely used "train hitting a school bus stuck on tracks" reaction meme template by adding national flags to represent the two teams, created as a joke about the 2024 Copa America match where England defeated Mexico, playing on the iconic "football's coming home" slogan popular among England football fans.

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