"We’re not going home, we’re going further!"
The Danish football player Joachim Mæhle wrote this Danish phrase on his Twitter profile after Denmark’s 4-1 win over Russia, of which he scored the last goal: "Vi skal ikke hjem, vi skal videre.” Danish commentator Andreas Kraul also yelled the same phrase when Denmark scored their third goal in the 79th minute.
What's it all about? Well, “We’re not going home, we’re going further” is phrase from an old Danish movie from 1971 called ‘The Olsen Gang in Jutland.’ In the movie, the leader of the criminal gang refuses to go home after their plans have failed, and shouts: "We’re not going home, we’re going further!" There is no suggestion that the Danish football team is a band of renegade criminals from Jutland, no, definitely not...
