Despite the majority of Scots not wanting to be a fully independent nation, many Scotland fans at Parkhead saw fit to jeer the English national anthem 'God Save The Queen' which is, of course, the British national anthem, and therefore theirs as well.
The Tartan Army brought shame on Scotland by booing throughout the English anthem before tonight’s international at Celtic Park.
I reckon it's time to reclaim our national pride, and, to kick-start the process, we should use the excuse of the Scottish referendum to demand an English national anthem - something we can play at football matches to drown out the bone-scratching horror of the Scottish national song. No offence to Her Maj, but God Save The Queen is a song that unites Britain, while I believe England deserves its own tune.
Rule Britannia, its words by a Scot and its tune from an opera about England’s king Arthur, is far from a straightforward song of imperialist triumphalism, writes Tom Service
With the football World Cup approaching, England manager Roy Hodgson is insisting that his players sing the national anthem before each game. We asked a number of democracy experts to share their views on Hodgson’s rule. In the first of two posts on this issue, we find a broad consensus that while singing the anthem may be a positive sign of patriotic feeling, ‘God Save the Queen’ is inappropriate for various reasons, including its religious and monarchist sentiment, and because it is a UK anthem rather than England’s alone.
England manager Roy Hodgson expects all his players to show pride at representing their country by singing the national anthem at the World Cup.
Iain Morrison asks: "What is envisaged as the national anthem for a new independent Scotland? As someone born of Scots parents in England, I am proud of my Scottish inheritance but I feel that the lyrics of the current anthem 'Flower of Scotland' are far too nationalistic."
A leading Church of England vicar yesterday condemned the words of one of the country’s best-loved hymns as obscene, offensive and unfit to be sung by Christians.
ENGLAND singing God Save The Queen ahead of their Rugby League World Cup opener in Wales tomorrow would be "wrong and inappropriate", according to a Liberal Democrat MP.
Such might have been the question of a six-year-old watching the England v Scotland game last night when the ‘national’ anthems started up: the stirring strains of ‘Flower of Scotland’ (the Scottish national anthem) followed by . . . er . . . ‘God Save the Queen’ (the British national anthem). Where was the English one?
The sport governing bodies and associations of England: Adopt an English national anthem
The Football Association is emailing England fans asking them not to indulge in "offensive songs" when their team play Ireland at Wembley on Wednesday night. It's safe to assume there's one song they have particularly in mind.
Philip Davies has seconded an Early Day Motion (like a Parliamentary Petition for MPs) by Greg Mulholland, calling for an English National Anthem to be sung at events where it is England, as opposed to Great Britain, who is playing.
Today, St George's Day, Greg Mulholland, Member of Parliament for Leeds North West, Chair of the Parliamentary Rugby League Group and Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary St. George Group, has submitted a Parliamentary Motion calling for England teams to use an English anthem when competing in sporting events just as Scotland and Wales do.
When the home nations meet, the Scots - for instance - prepare to rumble with Flower of Scotland while the English gird their loins to an anthem that also applies to their opponents
We hear Flower of Scotland, Land of Our fathers and Danny Boy. So why cannot England have its own anthem? Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory or I Vow To Thee My Country, being the most obvious options, rather than Swing Low perhaps?
It’s perhaps not surprising that David Cameron was unable to say who wrote “Rule, Britannia”. As Robert Colvile has remarked, perhaps only one in a hundred people know that the words were written by James Thomson; a few more may know that the music was by Thomas Arne.
Blake's poem was put to music by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916 as a way to bolster English spirits during the horrors of World War I. There is irony in this because Blake was a radical who supported the French Revolution and was once tried for treason. Also, the hymn "Jerusalem" is not only popular with staunch monarchists and conservatives but also with socialists and trade unionists.
God Save The Queen is usually played before the two teams meet in the final of the competition, but the Football League have a policy which prevents the anthems being played when English and Welsh sides meet.