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Should The National Anthem Be Changed?

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Scotland have their own anthem, Wales have theirs to. We're forced to play that dirge before every game.

Nobody is stopping us from changing it apart from the people who don't want too and their opinion is as good as your's.

Posted

Nothing wrong with GSTQ at all.

Keep.

 

nothing wrong with it i agree but jerusalem is better 

Posted

Nobody is stopping us from changing it apart from the people who don't want too and their opinion is as good as your's.

I get what Wymespool is saying though. We should have our own anthem, because ours being the same as the British one only furthers this thinking in other parts of the world that Britain is England, which it obviously isn't. It might seem a bit petty but I just don't like the fact that music that plays when Chris Hoy wins a gold medal for Britain is the same that plays when the England team step onto a pitch for a football match, but it's not the same when Scotland do. We should all sing from the same hymn sheet (or anthem sheet :D ) or we all sing from a different one, not this mismatch of half one thing and half another. It's clearly nowhere near as important, but it's a similar principal to the devolved parliaments, they all get one and our is just the British one.

Britain is not England and England is not Britain, we should have our own identity, simple as that.

Posted

I get what Wymespool is saying though. We should have our own anthem, because ours being the same as the British one only furthers this thinking in other parts of the world that Britain is England, which it obviously isn't. It might seem a bit petty but I just don't like the fact that music that plays when Chris Hoy wins a gold medal for Britain is the same that plays when the England team step onto a pitch for a football match, but it's not the same when Scotland do. We should all sing from the same hymn sheet (or anthem sheet :D ) or we all sing from a different one, not this mismatch of half one thing and half another. It's clearly nowhere near as important, but it's a similar principal to the devolved parliaments, they all get one and our is just the British one.

Britain is not England and England is not Britain, we should have our own identity, simple as that.

I couldn't agree more.

Posted

What is up with Rooney and Neville in that, why don't they sing?

I'd go Jerusalem definitely.

Not sure about Rooney but after reading Neville's autobiography it's because he chooses those moments to focus that bit more apparently

Posted

I'm sure it will change to God Save The King instead soon anyway, bless her..

Posted

A song about something that doesn't exist saving someone who is unlikely to need saving as she gets the best medical care and protection you can have.

Probably the most uninspiring song I've ever heard.

Posted

Can't really see the point of anthems, especially with lyrics. Seems antiquated.

Agree. Let's do what Spain does- find a rousing tune with NO words.
Posted

GSTQ just sums up the England football team. Boring awful. 

 

Give me Jerusalem, Born Slippy or the Prodigy's Breathe. That'll get the crowds roaring and players pumped. 

Posted

The best thing about Jerusalem is the words. But I would like a National Anthem without lyrics something like Lark Ascending. If it has to have lyrics then the smiths "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" would be nicely ironic for an old school empire that loses at sport.

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