land of hope and glory. Im probably not the only other person in England that has a problem with singing an anthem to a living unelected monarch .

True but the national anthem sung by English sporting teams is GSTQ. Football, yawnion, cricket, whatever. RL should stay the same.

Enough of this Nationalist/Devoltionalism Ballix. I'm British, not English.

Nonsense, I'm English, then British. Andy Murray is Scottish when he loses and British when he wins.

ANYTHING is better than God Save The Queen. It's bad enough that our head of state runs a family of chinless wonders whose only talent is for Tax Dodging without people singing a song saying how gracious and noble she is - give me a 32 million quid a year for walking round chatting to people and I'll be as gracious as you like!

Anyway, God save the queen is too short, Kiwis got the right idea, 5 minutes long - then they sing it in another language and then they do a Haka whilst pulling funny faces - great stuff.

By comparison God Save the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (ooops, sorry, I mean Queen, we are all good friends now etc) just gets mumbled by the players for a few awkward seconds and comes across as flat, usually sounds like it should be played at a low budget funeral - awful.

Land of hope and glory please.

Have any of you suggesting Land of Hope and Glory ever actually listened to it?

Yes, the "Land of Hope and Glooooooory" chorus is fantastically grand and uplifting, but for the most it's a lively, jolly little jaunt that bounces around all over the place without lyrics. Not a national anthem by any stretch. Cutting it to the chorus alone would sound a bit daft.

For RL, "Jerusalem" would be ideal.

Not that it'll change.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9k1EvSX7W0 Land of hope and Glory If its good enough for him, its good enough for me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9k1EvSX7W0 Land of hope and Glory If its good enough for him, its good enough for me!

We should all just hum the Emmerdale theme.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YISinxrIc84Ignore the fact that the singer is a kiwi, and ignore the Scotland pictures[/url but this would make a great National Anthem

God Save The Queen is the national anthem.........why change

God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols version) would certainly liven things up. Can see Ray french pogoing as we speak.

Amazed no-one has mentioned it yet.

I'd like to see any 18 stone, beer swilling, RL fan attempting to sing Land Of Hope And Glory

The mind truly boggles





It would be a nightmarish northern version of last night of the proms. The damage that the years of Ray French/Alex Murphy commentating did to the game's image would be nothing in comparision.

It really doesn't bear thinking about.

surely tubthumping would be apt for a RL team, especially England at Int level?

or all the players humming the Hovis tune with a single trumpet serenading in the background!

How about every nation just sings their national anthem? Home nations can pretend that GSTQ isn't their national anthem all they want but whether they like it or not, it is.

Jerusalem for me

Jerusalem?!!!!!!!!!!!! F off. Most of you don't know the history to it, or the words, you Pommie see you next Tuesday's. Did Jesus exist? Did he come to England? Balls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can shove it where the sun don't shine!

Land of hope and glory +1

and grab another VB.

Because I have a hat ?

Stop having anthems b4 matches, and also stop having the Haka. Get on with the match.

I couldn't agree more. Added to which I think God Save the Queen / King* (* delete as applicable) is an absolute dirge.

Land of Hope and Glory is stirring although it would probably be ruled out due to echoes of imperialism in it's lyrics.

Jerusalem is also a great hymn.

you are both assuming you arent a jock or taff but where born and raised in ENGLAnd that makes you English and british because england is part of britain