Agreed, what we need is "Flower of Scotland's" English equivalent. A song that has a bit of tempo and reminds everyone of what we do to foreign invaders - i.e. stick them in a council house and pay all their bills!

No, seriously we do need a change - but lets leave it until the present Queen retires or whatever.

I really like GSTQ - it's got a rallying cry quality to it and builds up nicely to a crescendo with send her victorious, happy and glorious etc.

Looking forward to belting it out at Wembley.

I think whether you like GSTQ depends on whether you are a royalist or a republican.

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I've nothing for or against the monarchy, but, as far as I'm concerned, it's our national anthem, and I've 'belted it out' on many an occasion (Wembley, for the last 2 years), and felt quite proud.

When the Queen dies, I think there maybe a call for change. Wether there is one or not, who knows.

One thing's for sure, JERUSALEM needs to be used more, for English stuff, rather than GSTQ

I'd say its more to do with whether you're living in the 21st or the 19th century.

Wether your a republican or a loyalist you got to be honest God Save the Queen is the worst national anthem. National Anthem should be about the country you live in not about a privliged individual that is supposedly to rule over a nation.

Lefty goldblatt i think is correct Jerusalem needs to be used more if not become the national anthem. After all people need to be preoud of the country they represent not sing the praises of 1 individual.

FTQ

Ireland's call and flower of scotland are both goosebumps raisers for me. I'd happily go with Jerusalem as our national anthem though.

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Flower of Scotland is a bit embarrassing though, its about Scotlands only ever victory over England and they are still singing about it now. They are like those sad act City fans that bang on about 5-1 in 1989.

Land of hope and glory is a winner for me

I almost agree; its just that the lyrics probably need something of an update, for exampleTho' thy way be darkened, still in splendour drest,
As the star that trembles o'er the liquid West.

Throned amid the billows, throned inviolate,
Thou hast reigned victorious, thou has smiled at fate".[/i

What does all that mean then?

City have something else to sing about now

Did anyone see the American Football at Wembley yesterday. The American national anthem was sung before the match, which I suppose is fair enough because all the players and coaches are American. But why do they have to sing it so dramatically.

I expect most of the fans who were there were English. If so why did they hold up an American flag mosaic in the crowd.

I guess the American flag mosaic was a contrast to the Union Jack mosaic at the opposite end of the stadium.

I also thought Katherine Jenkins rendition of of GSTQ was many times more over-dramatised than the US anthem (which is sung before every NFL game).

It was in contrast to the Union flag, but still, raising the flag of another country is poor form.

Katherine Jenkins was slightly over the top, not as bad as the American fella though. The American anthem seems to be sung like this most of the time.