How did Seven Nation Army become a terrace anthem – and what links it to Blur and Bernie Sanders?

From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we be a part of the dots around some of the enduring stadium singalongs

Duh duh duh dah duh duh … The lads’s football World Cup is beneath method and you’ll doubtless have heard fans chanting the riff from the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Military, which has by some means develop into a mainstay of football tournaments. An intrepid reporter traced its crossover to Membership Brugge fans at a 2003 Champions League recreation towards AC Milan. “I especially love that most people do not know what music the melody they're chanting came from,” Jack White told the Detroit Free Press in 2016.