This is not about the World Cup. It is instead a brief musing about meaning. What does, "Come on England" mean? Should there be a comma and, frankly, if there were would it make any difference?
"Come on board" makes sense. "Come on England" does not make sense, certainly not in the way that "Allez la France" does.
I wonder whether the phrase is a corruption of the much more gentle, "Come along, England"?
Possibly, or is the preposition used in the sense of "Trot on", or "Get on with it"?
Or perhaps I don't know what I'm on about.
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I agree-blatant abuse of the Queen's English as is the phrase "yeah, yeah yeah" which I am fed up of hearing. One 'yes' (pronounced correctly) is more than enough!!
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