With due deference to propergomper whose post started me off
It really gets up my nose that the FA and the RFU etc use God Save The Queen as the English National Anthem. It's not. There actually isn't one. GSTQ is the British one. I'd like to see Jerusalem or Land of Hope and Glory. Any other suggestions?
They do use Jerusalem at Twickenham, but as part of the pre-match entertainment, so to speak. Makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Doing it after the Haka would give the All Blacks something to think about.
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the Queen
Lord, grant that Marshal Wade,
May by thy mighty aid,
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
and like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush,
God save the King.
I'd like to see the crowd howling Greensleeves before England played the All Blacks - with an orchestra of 50 virginals and a couple of shawms and sackbuts and maybe some morris dancers on the field... really put terror into the heart of the opposition, that would.