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  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,598
    bobmunro said:
    SteveKielyCambridge said:
    Wales - absolutely monumental.

    Especially sung by 80,000 at The Millennium Stadium.
    I learnt it to be one of those when I went there to watch Wales v Scotland at the 6 Nations.
    OMG it was wonderful 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    KBslittlesis said:
    bobmunro said:
    SteveKielyCambridge said:
    Wales - absolutely monumental.

    Especially sung by 80,000 at The Millennium Stadium.
    I learnt it to be one of those when I went there to watch Wales v Scotland at the 6 Nations.
    OMG it was wonderful 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    I bet it was - hairs on the back of the neck moment.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,299
    edited June 2021
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I think England should adopt Jerusalem and God Save the Queen should be for Great Britain as in the Olympics. It seems odd that the other home nations have their own for individual competitions and we don't. Jerusalem is miles more stirring but I suppose we can talk with Red Red Robin being our song :)
    Dont England use something different at the Commonwealth Games?

    Might well be wrong but if so it raises the question even more why England dont use something different to the British anthem.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    ForeverAddickted said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I think England should adopt Jerusalem and God Save the Queen should be for Great Britain as in the Olympics. It seems odd that the other home nations have their own for individual competitions and we don't. Jerusalem is miles more stirring but I suppose we can talk with Red Red Robin being our song :)
    Dont England use something different at the Commonwealth Games?

    Land of hope and glory.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,205
    Brazil and the French. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    C'mon.  You know the English national anthem should be "swords of a thousand men" by Ten Pole Tudor!
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,439
    soapy_jones said:
    C'mon.  You know the English national anthem should be "swords of a thousand men" by Ten Pole Tudor!
    This or Vindaloo...
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,436
    bobmunro said:
    SteveKielyCambridge said:
    Wales - absolutely monumental.

    Especially sung by 80,000 at The Millennium Stadium.

    That said, Flower of Scotland sung at a full Murrayfield is pretty damn stirring!
    This. And I don't think England should sing the British national anthem - get their own!
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    cafctom said:
    Never understood the criticism of the English anthem. The moment where it goes into the powerful key change of “Send her victorious” always feels massive. Nothing dreary about it at all. 
    Is she playing instead of Kane on Friday?
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    God Save The Queen.

    Frankly, every other anthem is subordinate, including the "non anthems" of Wales and Scotland.
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  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    They're coming to take me away- North Korea
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,607
    edited June 2021
    https://youtu.be/k8DMJ3SGlzk
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Johnnysummers5 said:
    They're coming to take me away- North Korea
    Very funny.

    On a more serious note, I really look forward to the day we get a unified Korea - hopefully in my lifetime - and we get the wonderful Arirang as an anthem:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-OUt3IFlzk 
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    Russia

    /thread
  • 24 Red
    24 Red Posts: 578
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    Russia

    /thread
    Yes, Russia.

    As for God Save the Queen - the title alone contains two things I don't believe in. Does it even mention the Nation? 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    24 Red said:
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    Russia

    /thread
    Yes, Russia.

    As for God Save the Queen - the title alone contains two things I don't believe in. Does it even mention the Nation? 
    I get the point about God but I don't think there is any doubt the Queen is real.
  • Singaporejack
    Singaporejack Posts: 21
    South African anthem a great one too - watched rugby there once and great sound 
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,665
    Wales for me
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    Most of the Swiss didnt seem to know theirs or be arsed to sing it - fair play to the Italians, without exception (players and fans) singing with a bit of passion.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Italian 
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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    The only good version of GSTQ was the version that LOCOG switched to after a few days of London 2012, they sped up the second half a bit and made it less ponderous.

    as for the best Russia, Italy, France and Wales 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited June 2021
    soapy_jones said:
    C'mon.  You know the English national anthem should be "swords of a thousand men" by Ten Pole Tudor!
    The only reason this didn't get a promote was that I thought people would accuse me of flippancy. 
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    North Korea, obvs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjV2EErPHdg
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,194
    edited June 2021
    cafcdave123 said:
    after FOS, the Chile national anthem as I always picture Zamorano belting it out in 1998
    The Chilean national anthem in the 2014 World Cup v Spain was the greatest moment in human history, especially when the music stopped and the crowd carried on. 
  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 767
    bobmunro said:
    SteveKielyCambridge said:
    Wales - absolutely monumental.

    Especially sung by 80,000 at The Millennium Stadium.


    My worst nightmare.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,960
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Would love to see Jerusalem as our national anthem...
    A very long rhetorical question to which the answer is 'no'
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,436
    Singaporejack said:
    South African anthem a great one too - watched rugby there once and great sound 
    The words are in 5 of the the 11 official languages
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,313
    IdleHans said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Would love to see Jerusalem as our national anthem...
    A very long rhetorical question to which the answer is 'no'
    That's just the first verse! Second begins BRING ME MY SPEAR and shit gets REAL
  • LittleAddick
    LittleAddick Posts: 635
    Jerusalem would get players and fans 10x more pumped than GSTQ
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    Waltzing Matilda is Australia’s unofficial national anthem.  Does that count?

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