Do you regard God Save The Queen as the England national anthem.

Publius Ovidius · Nov 16, 2013

It always amazes me that they play GSTQ whe England play.

It's the national anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Jerusalem or land of hope and glory for me.

:wave:

pasty · Nov 16, 2013

Agreed. Doesn't help that it's an absolute depressing dirge of a tune either.

dougdeep · Nov 16, 2013

They play land of hope and glory for the commonwealth games, or at least they used to.

Soulman · Nov 16, 2013

granny weatherwax said:
It always amazes me that they play GSTQ whe England play.

It's the national anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Jerusalem or land of hope and glory for me.

I agree.
We should have our own national anthem.
At the Commonwealth Games, Team England uses "Jerusalem" as the victory anthem from 2010 onwards. The Commonwealth Games Council for England conducted a poll of members of the public which decided the anthem for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The three options were "God Save the Queen", "Jerusalem" and "Land of Hope and Glory". Jerusalem was the clear winner with 52% of the vote; Land of Hope and Glory received 32% and God Save the Queen 12%.
At international test cricket matches, England has, since 2003, used "Jerusalem" as its entrance anthem.

Seagull on the wing · Nov 16, 2013

Er! rewrite the song...it should be 'Land of Hope.....'

Footsoldier · Nov 16, 2013

Time for change as GSTQ is the British anthem. Not allowed to play it in Cup Finals if the Welsh make the final.

dougdeep · Nov 16, 2013

Footsoldier said:
Time for change as GSTQ is the British anthem. Not allowed to play it in Cup Finals if we the Welsh make the final.

If you're Welsh why the avatar?

Footsoldier · Nov 16, 2013

dougdeep said:
If you're Welsh why the avatar?

Don't edit my posts in future. Thanks.

Bwian · Nov 16, 2013

To answer your question: NO!

I wish it was replaced as the UK's National Anthem-it's a dirge. I cannot sing it because of its content: I'm not a royalist and I'm an Agnostic so me asking a ficticious being to save a woman I couldn't give a hoot about does not do a thing for me. Our anthem should be about the country-even 'There'll Always Be an England' would be better than GSTQ.

symyjym · Nov 16, 2013

Yep, it's the one national anthem out of every other country that doesn't fire everyone up. The England players always look like it's an obligation to sing it and only just up until recently most never bothered or just mimed.

I like Brazils, the Italians, Germanys and the French national anthems.

Land of hope and Glory and rule Britania are fighting good, but obviously they are about Britain rather than England.

Footsoldier · Nov 16, 2013

Bwian said:
To answer your question: NO!

I wish it was replaced as the UK's National Anthem-it's a dirge. I cannot sing it because of its content: I'm not a royalist and I'm an Agnostic so me asking a ficticious being to save a woman I couldn't give a hoot about does not do a thing for me. Our anthem should be about the country-even 'There'll Always Be an England' would be better than GSTQ.

England would never have there own anthem as might offend people.

Bwian · Nov 16, 2013

Footsoldier said:
England would never have there own anthem as might offend people.

That would be too bad if people are offended-if our (English) anthem offends then they know where the exit is.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Nov 16, 2013

Billy Connolly reckons the English National Anthem should be the theme tune from The Archers :lol:

wigangull · Nov 16, 2013

England does not have a national anthem as such,but a song in salute to the sovereign.The words change everytime "the sub comes off the bench as it were" :thumbsup:

Creaky · Nov 16, 2013

At least, relatively speaking, GSTQ is fairly short!!

GreersElbow · Nov 16, 2013

Always been a big fan of Jerusalem myself, partially because I'm a republican...

TheJasperCo · Nov 16, 2013

Why would we sing about a place that's not even in the UK?

Publius Ovidius · Nov 16, 2013

I am not necessarily a republican, but I just don't get that its known as the national anthem,but the taffs and jocks are allowed to abuse it when it's sung, so it has become the English anthem by default......and I would prefer land of hope and glory

Stumpy Tim · Nov 16, 2013

Bwian said:
To answer your question: NO!

I wish it was replaced as the UK's National Anthem-it's a dirge. I cannot sing it because of its content: I'm not a royalist and I'm an Agnostic so me asking a ficticious being to save a woman I couldn't give a hoot about does not do a thing for me. Our anthem should be about the country-even 'There'll Always Be an England' would be better than GSTQ.

Basically this, except I'm an athiest and a republican. The song means nothing to me

Herr Tubthumper · Nov 16, 2013

And no booing during Tuesday night's Deutschlandlied please.

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