He told to Télérama (French TV paper) : "England is used to worship a brand new band every now and then and throw them away into the ten following minutes. That' s a vicious behaviour but symptomatic of one certain illness which corrupts the UK. I' ve written one song about that which is called "Tony Adams" : Noone in this f*****g country rose up when he was denied the England armband, whilst he was winning his own fight against alcoolism. People might imagine footy is mundane, sometimes mundane stuff are important. We need people like Tony Adams. At the opposite, England is used to get rid of these kind of people, that' s disgusting"

See also this previous item. But despite what it says there, Strummer is no Gooner. It's come to our attention that he's a Chelsea fan. See Not Gooners section of our Celebrity Gooners page.