I think that's the first time I've ever heard a non-Sussex version of SBTS! I didn't actually realise that it was used anywhere else or in any other form, I'd just assumed that it was too specific.
Meh, nothing to apologise for. :thumbsup:
All in all I suppose it's rather a small point in the day, but I just feel that the one piece of music most associated with our club and our fans should not have been taken over and dominated by someone with no emotional link to it whatsoever.
Sorry, but that lyric that makes no sense. Why would you come to Sussex and tell people that? We already know that. Surely it should be 'go from' as in you leave Sussex and tell the wider world "that we'll stand or fall"
End of the second verse, the line should be "when you go from Sussex, whoever you may be, you may tell them all that we stand and fall, for Sussex by the Sea" whereas he sang "if you come to Sussex", which makes naff all sense whatsoever.
Sorry, but having waited 14 years to sing that as the teams come out at our new home, it should have been left to the fans and the marching band to do the job, not an opera singer who couldn't even get all the words right.
A shame that mic time was wasted on Richie Reynolds and the opera singer when I'm sure most in attendance would have rather listened to Knight, Bloom, Perry and Chapman say at least a few words on such an occasion.
To have them standing there but basically ignore them was an insult, IMO. To be...