[Football] Flower of Scotland.

[Chicken Run]

I hate to say it, but, why don’t we have a national anthem like Flower of Scotland.

It’s inclusive, every Jock can sing it, and it sounds bloody awesome.

I make no bones, I hate our anthem, I never sing it, I would love an anthem I could sing and be proud to sing.

Amazing Grace​

 

[Stato]

I cant stand Jerusalem. Reminds me of egg chasing and men in boat shoes with jumpers over their shoulders;

And the WI, but also the Labour Party. It's a song to be interpreted in a hundred different ways by people who are in almost total disagreement with each other. Asks loads of questions that nobody has satisfactory answers to. Perfect for England.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Best national anthem imo.
They just need to work on what happens in the following couple of hours.

 

[Scappa]

My money would be on this being played at the beginning of every school day if the toad-faced homunculous Farage ever came to power

 

[BevBHA]

Just go with Bohemian Rapsody and be done with it

 

[pasty]

"Waltzing Matilda" is going spare since the Aussies moved on.

Maybe The Barmy Army version

 

[Hometownglory]

GSTK for Great Britiain and Land of Hope and Glory for England.

 

[lawros left foot]

Maybe The Barmy Army version

 

[Blue3]

A new king would have been an ideal moment to hold a competition for a new national anthem

 

[Weststander]

I spent a lot of time in Scotland in the 70s/ early 80s and FOS was sung every where. Most boozy nights in various pubs in Scotland would end with a bad rendition of it sung by pissed up Jocks.

I spent much of almost 8 years In Scotland from 87, including visiting many football stadia, pubs, clubs and Stirling Uni campus, also hogmanays. Travelled all over. Never heard it once.

But from 90 Murrayfield crowds sang it pre match, watching from TV.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I hate to say it, but, why don’t we have a national anthem like Flower of Scotland.

It’s inclusive, every Jock can sing it, and it sounds bloody awesome.

I make no bones, I hate our anthem, I never sing it, I would love an anthem I could sing and be proud to sing.

Tedious dirge

 

[BN9 BHA]

Yep, Jerusalem is even better than 'Flower of Scotland'.

No it isn’t

 

[Weststander]

Best national anthem imo.
They just need to work on what happens in the following couple of hours.

Than Le Marseillais!

 

[Arkwright]

Tedious dirge

Totally this! It was a battle of dirge between Scotland and Hungary's national dirge.

 

[lawros left foot]

I spent much of almost 8 years In Scotland from 87, including visiting many football stadia, pubs, clubs and Stirling Uni campus, also hogmanays. Travelled all over. Never heard it once.

But from 90 Murrayfield crowds sang it pre match, watching from TV.

I’m surprised at that, it was pretty much ubiquitous in a lot of the boozers I used.

 

[Eeyore]

Jerusalem is certainly an improvement on GSTK, but, it doesn’t exactly stir the blood and get the juices flowing, does it.

When you think that Flower of Scotland was only written in the 60s it is everything you’d want in an anthem.

I used to drink in the Wee Club in Inverkething on a Sunday lunchtime back in the 70s and FOS was always sung at kicking out time.

What you do in your private members club is up to you.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Welsh one is the best.
England should use Land of Hope and Glory

 

[ManOfSussex]

I spent much of almost 8 years In Scotland from 87, including visiting many football stadia, pubs, clubs and Stirling Uni campus, also hogmanays. Travelled all over. Never heard it once.

But from 90 Murrayfield crowds sang it pre match, watching from TV.

My Dad among others I know went to Murrayfield in '90 for that grand slam decider and it was sung as the national anthem, but apparently lots of Scots had sheets of paper or copies of that Saturday's Daily Record held aloft that had the words in.

 

[lawros left foot]

Tedious dirge

I agree, GSTK is a dirge, awful tune, terrible lyrics, and only about 1 person in a nation of 65 million.
And doesn’t mention the country by name

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Than Le Marseillais!

Yes that’s class. That scene in Casablanca when it drowns out the German one is mesmeric - as is Ingrid - always!