SUPREME HEADQUARTERS HULL CITY AFC EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Hull City AFC Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these 110 years. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of football-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the Belgium football machine. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 2014 ! Much has happened since the highs & lows of the past. The Tiger Nations have inflicted upon the enemy great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us a superiority and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained football men. The tide has turned! The free Hull City men of the world marching together to Victory! I have full confidence in your devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Luck! And let us all beseech blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
It is easy posting on this thread, everyone will b typing out their calls to arms. which will take some time. But once more unto the Breach. Once more unto the Breach, My Friends.
This day is called the feast of Lokeren: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Lokeren. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say, 'To-morrow is Lokeren:' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scarf and photos, And say, 'These chips and mussell covered in mayo I had in Lokeren.' Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Brucey the King, Davis and Rosenior, Quinn, Meyler, Aluko, Sagbo and Boyd, Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Lokeren day shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be rememberèd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sings our songs with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in East Yorkshire, now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That followed Hull City with us upon Lokeren's day.
'Once more unto the breach' - is from the 'Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' speech of Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598.