There has been a bit of a fuss over the decision by the Welsh players in the Team GB football squad, to not sing the national anthem at the beginning of games.
Captain Ryan Giggs has said he doesn’t sing it for personal reasons, I can only imagine this is because like me he thinks the anthem is bloody awful.
A national anthem is something to fill you with pride, which is what most anthems do, sadly our choice doesn’t have that effect.
Every time I see any of our sports stars singing it they seem to be cringing and gritting their teeth praying for it to end, or they like Giggs simply refuse to sing it.
A recent example of just how awful it is came at the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins had just won the yellow jersey and the crowd on the Champs-Elysees were ecstatic, then God Save the Queen was played and when it ended there was silence, flags had stopped waving, people had stopped cheering, Wiggins had stopped smiling and I’m convinced I saw some small children vomiting profusely onto Paris’s famous cobbled streets in the background.
What makes it worse is that there are two much better much more uplifting and rousing songs that could replace God Save the Queen in a heartbeat, Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory.
I don’t care which one (I prefer Hope and Glory), but can we just get rid God Save the Queen now.
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