Don't they know they sound like a bunch of ponce when they do it a dozen times though out the match? Sheesh will somebody stop those drunkards.
GOD **** THE QUEEN (as long as you use contraceptive)... If there is a god, save my friends, family and any other decent people before you even get to that ugly old bat!
If you are decent ( as you claim ) - God may not put you at the top of his list for saving - it's sinners that he is more interested in saving. Now do you qualify ?
i still don't know why england use this anthem, it's the BRITISH anthem so we should use land of hope and glory which is at least about our COUNTRY.
The national anthem should be this: [video=youtube;Co8QwDoR60Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co8QwDoR60Y[/video]
Yeah I hate it when the fans sing and show passion and enthusiasm. Why don't they just sit there in silence so everyone can concentrate on the football.
I turn the sound down when they start singing this disgrace of an anthem. No mention of the country, only praise to one unelected woman, and into the bargain an appalling piece of music. Most seven year olds could work it out on a piano in minutes. There should be no anthems played, they cause friction between supporters, and waste time, they are there to play football, and not to audition for the x factor, get on with the fu***** game.
Couldn't agree more. Now that we've completely stamped any sense of national pride out of the players, let's turn our attention to the fans. :/
Edward Elgar, for t'was he, disliked the words that were added to the Pomp and Circumstance trio, even more so after the outbreak of WW1, as it was continually used as a sort of unofficial anthem and he wished to have less nationalistic words written for it. This piece of music is completely different in style, to nearly all the rest of his compositions. The Dream of Gerontius would be a good example of this.
It is the British anthem as said but you wouldn't get the Scots or Welsh playing it to fire up their players their songs are all about fighting the English. Songs full of fire and patriotism sorry God Save The Queen and Even Land of Soap and Tories wouldn't cut it we need someone to write a new FOOTBALL anthem.
Those who attend can sing what they bloody well want, it costs enough to go. There is a limit though. If England start with that crappy ultra song that Palace, Blackpool and Leicester do, "that's the way we like it..." etc or start Poznaning. Then we will know we have lost our national side forever. The band must go. Anyone who went to football before Euro 96 knows that the best atmosphere is spontaneous. You get some cracking chants made up on the train or in reaction to an event on the pitch or in response to an opposition chant.