World Cup Chat

[Part Time James]

This is a fine policy aim and I support it.

I noticed that before the Scotland Morocco game the announcer said 'Please stand for the national anthem of Scotland' but they didn't play the national anthem. They played Flower of Scotland. The national anthem is God save the King.

You can start there. If they can't even get that right then what hope is there?

Reminds me of this dropped b*llock:

Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medallist in Kuwait

A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.

www.bbc.co.uk

Concur regarding Scotland's national anthem. Scotland isn't a nation, it's a suburb.

 

[Houston Eagle]

Two of our players have been incredibly impressive in the last 24h.
Kamada and Riad.
I guess the best place to put yourself on show is the World Cup

Agree 100%. Riad looks every bit the player that Guehi is and Kamada’s discipline within the system is impressive.

 

[TheBigToePunt]

It has the same amazingly complicated and well thought out tune. But the words are some unintelligible foreign muck.
The Irish one was actually originally written in English and caused a furore when the original was played in Canada. Which was ironic as Canada had previously used God Save the Queen for Ireland and caused a far bigger incident before. The Irish Prime Minister made it a Republic more or less.

It would all be simpler if we followed Billy Connolly's advice and used the theme tune to The Archers as the British national anthem.

Other nations would see the sense in this and follow suit in some way, thereby simultaneously solving all the politically problematic aspects of national anthems whilst also quietly re-establishing Britain as the nation others follow....

 

[Part Time James]

It would all be simpler if we followed Billy Connolly's advice and used the theme tune to The Archers as the British national anthem.

Other nations would see the sense in this and follow suit in some way, thereby simultaneously solving all the politically problematic aspects of national anthems whilst also quietly re-establishing Britain as the nation others follow....

It does get us around the issue of there only being a small handful of the population that believe in both God and the King. Otherwise it might as well be Unicorns save Prince Andrew.

 

[Casual]

Yep. I call tierry Henry , Terry Henry (pronounced like Lenny Henry’s last name) , if it annoys arsenal fans, it’s worth doing.

Your last expectation is

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come to fruition.
Mentioned this before but Brian Moore was accused of mispronouncing Ayax as Ajax and pointed out that he was English and didn't say Paree for Paris either. Meanwhile Jack Charlton carried on blithely referring to Joanne Cruff.

 

[ASCPFC]

It would all be simpler if we followed Billy Connolly's advice and used the theme tune to The Archers as the British national anthem.

Other nations would see the sense in this and follow suit in some way, thereby simultaneously solving all the politically problematic aspects of national anthems whilst also quietly re-establishing Britain as the nation others follow....

Indeed, Rule Britannia would be ironic now. Not sure Jerusalem would be appropriate either. Maybe change the name?

 

[Part Time James]

Yep. I call tierry Henry , Terry Henry (pronounced like Lenny Henry’s last name) , if it annoys arsenal fans, it’s worth doing.

I have gone one further and am calling Wrexham "Wrex Ham". When Wrex Ham play Westham in the league next season I plan to be an absolute c**t about it, in a way I haven't yet shaped.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Well done Cape Verde. Excellent point from a really good game.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Well done Cape Verde. Excellent point from a really good game.

Yes I enjoyed that game, I fell asleep and missed the last 15 minutes, but thankfully didn’t miss anymore scoring

It wasn’t a backs to the wall job either was it as against Spain, they looked the more dangerous going forward, could definitely see them beating Saudi Arabia

 

[TheBigToePunt]

Well done Cape Verde. Excellent point from a really good game.

I thought it was the most enjoyable game, or at least performance by one team, so far. Cape Verde played very much like they had only ever played in a playground. Like no clever coach had ever come along and told them about all the things that they couldn't do, or drill them on what was realistic, or efficient. Every single one of them seemed to feel it was perfectly feasible to run past everyone and score, or score from half a mile away, or just run after whichever opponent had the ball, wherever he was, and just force them to surrender it.

They'll sleep well.