[Albion] St. George's Day at Wembley

[portslade seagull]

When i was in the NTC as a young lad ( many decades ago ) blowing the bugle dressed as a sailor we always marched through the streets playing military marching songs to whatever church we would end up in depending where we were. Always had to scrounge a couple of pennies for the collection bowl which always seemed to start with us.
Apart from this have never celebrated St George's Day.

 

[clapham_gull]

What an absolutely wanky thread.

Well that's another way of celebrating our number one Turkish dragon slayer.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

As the French say Rodney.

Alright, Dave?

 

[WATFORD zero]

When i was in the NTC as a young lad ( many decades ago ) blowing the bugle dressed as a sailor we always marched through the streets playing military marching songs to whatever church we would end up in depending where we were. Always had to scrounge a couple of pennies for the collection bowl which always seemed to start with us.
Apart from this have never celebrated St George's Day.

A phrase you don't hear enough these days

 

[Guinness Boy]

A phrase you don't hear enough these days

I believe @El Presidente has it on DVD

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Well I've learnt one thing from this thread.
I'm grateful I wasn't in the scouts in the 60s.

 

[Gabbafella]

The Coronation is on the 6th

Bank holiday is on the 8th

 

[GT49er]

Celebrating your national saint's day? How provincial. Leave that to the Irish, Welsh and Scots.*

I'll be more focused on beating Man Utd on Sunday rather than anything else.

I'm as proud to be English as a Frenchman might be to be French, but I'm no nationalist. I think when you start going all nationalist and making out that you live in the greatest country on earth, then you're talking bollocks. It's the same as when Yorkshire folk bang on about Yorkshire being God's county and all that hyperbole. I've lived in Barnsley and if that's where God lives then he/she needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

Yes, I think I get that - Like when us Sussex born folk go on about Sussex, you mean, innit?

 

[Eeyore]

Won't be celebrating as St Edmund should be our patron saint.

From Wiki:

'Nothing is known of his life or reign from contemporary written sources'

Three cheers for, erm, random bloke who nobody knows anything about.

I think this may be the reason why so few give a flying flamingo about such celebrations.

I'm all Sussex meself. Tony Bloom Day anyone ?

 

[BadFish]

From Wiki:

'Nothing is known of his life or reign from contemporary written sources'

Three cheers for, erm, random bloke who nobody knows anything about.

I think this may be the reason why so few give a flying flamingo about such celebrations.

I'm all Sussex meself. Tony Bloom Day anyone ?

We should have two days of celebration1 one for Harry and one for Megan, the king and queen of Sussex.

 

[Eeyore]

Yes, I think I get that - Like when us Sussex born folk go on about Sussex, you mean, innit?

Or us Surrey born folk who go on about Sussex !

 

[Shooting Star]

From Wiki:

'Nothing is known of his life or reign from contemporary written sources'

Three cheers for, erm, random bloke who nobody knows anything about.

I think this may be the reason why so few give a flying flamingo about such celebrations.

I'm all Sussex meself. Tony Bloom Day anyone ?

Little bit selective there. He's a saint due to his reported martyrdom. English, died defending the land from the Danes. That's why he gets my vote ahead of George, who was a Christian martyr but from nowhere bloody near England.

 

[Taybha]

Which Saint was it that went around beating himself over the bonce with a chunk of wood?

I'm only interested as on a visit to the Carpathian the whole village was at it for ages whilst I was trying to watch home and away.

 

[Hamilton]

Yes, I think I get that - Like when us Sussex born folk go on about Sussex, you mean, innit?

Or when Fiveways people go on about Fiveways!

 

[HeaviestTed]

We should have two days of celebration1 one for Harry and one for Megan, the king and queen of Sussex.

This extra bank holiday for Charlie boy is a pain in the arse for people who don’t get paid when offices shut for bank holidays (me).

Why he couldn’t have just used one of the other bank holidays in may I’ll never know.

My preference would have been to stop the monarchy with Liz. It’s not relevant for the 21st century.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

The OP is going to need a bigger net. Here goes.

. According to tradition he was a soldier in the Roman army. Saint George was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origin and member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints and megalomartyrs in Christianity, and he has been especially venerated as a military saint since the Crusades. He is respected by Christians, Druze, as well as some Muslims as a martyr of monotheistic faith.

Btw the way, the Crusades were led by the French.
King Richard I, a Plantagenet, hardly set foot in Britain, and only spoke French.

Bonjour à tous

Yes but apart from that what did he or the Romans do for us?

 

[BadFish]

This extra bank holiday for Charlie boy is a pain in the arse for people who don’t get paid when offices shut for bank holidays (me).

Why he couldn’t have just used one of the other bank holidays in may I’ll never know.

My preference would have been to stop the monarchy with Liz. It’s not relevant for the 21st century.

Join the rebellion my friend, we await the rallying call from Harry and Meagan to commence the Sussexit from the tyranny of the yolk of oppression from our English/British/UK/european overlords.

 

[HeaviestTed]

Join the rebellion my friend, we await the rallying call from Harry and Meagan to commence the Sussexit from the tyranny of the yolk of oppression from our English/British/UK/european overlords.

Im sold, I think she is fit and I don’t read the daily mail.

 

[BadFish]

Im sold, I think she is fit and I don’t read the daily mail.

Brilliant we have just raised our numbers by 100%. You can be in charge of bank holidays.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yes but apart from that what did he or the Romans do for us?

Roads and aquaducts