General Football Nonsense

[Marc Overmars]

Respects were paid the other night in an appropriate setting at Wembley. I think it's a bit much to now have the anthem played this weekend, I can't really imagine France or another country playing God Save the Queen before their league matches if a tragedy occurred here.

Not really bothered though in fairness, just find it a bit odd.

[Globalgunner]

Roughly the same number of people were lost in a Russian jet 3 weeks ago. No outpouring of grief for them

[Niall_Quinn]

Respects were paid the other night in an appropriate setting at Wembley. I think it's a bit much to now have the anthem played this weekend, I can't really imagine France or another country playing God Save the Queen before their league matches if a tragedy occurred here.

Not really bothered though in fairness, just find it a bit odd.

Most national anthems relate the a nation and its people. Ours is a grovelling and fawning crawl to a hereditary turd apparently appointed by God. It's not surprising that another nation would be unable to play our "national" anthem. The only surprise is we're dumb enough and cowardly enough to play it ourselves.

God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen
God save the Queen
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen

O Lord our God arise
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On Thee our hopes we fix
God save us all

Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour
Long may she reign
May she defend our laws
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen

Not in this land alone
But be God's mercies known
From shore to shore
Lord make the nations see
That men should brothers be
And form one family
The wide world over

From every latent foe
From the assassins blow
God save the Queen
O'er her thine arm extend
For Britain's sake defend
Our mother, prince, and friend
God save the Queen

Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the King

God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb

God save the queen
She ain't no human being
There is no future
In England's dreaming

Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need
There's no future, no future,
No future for you

God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves

God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems

Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid

When there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future, your future

God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves

God save the queen
We mean it man
And there is no future
In England's dreaming

No future, no future,
No future for you
No future, no future,
No future for me

No future, no future,
No future for you
No future, no future
For you

[Niall_Quinn]

Roughly the same number of people were lost in a Russian jet 3 weeks ago. No outpouring of grief for them

I think all but the mindless will be able to see through all this bullshit propaganda. Unfortunately the mindless are still in the majority.

[Niall_Quinn]

Premier League managers have welcomed the decision to play the French national anthem before every game this weekend in remembrance of the victims of the Paris terror attacks.


Arsenal’s French boss Arsene Wenger, whose side play at West Brom on Saturday, said: ‘I think it’s a nice gesture of solidarity. It’s not an obvious one for the fans, just like it would not be an obvious one for fans in France to sing God Save The Queen, because they don’t know the words. Symbolically it’s a very nice gesture.’

This has to be one of the weirdest moments in football. Shame Wenger seems to be cheerleading the farce.

[Letters]

Anyway, that aside, if this means we've all found a sudden love for the French and all things France then I suppose that's not a bad thing.

Well, we haven't. But then we didn't really hate them in the first place.
It's a bit like Arsenal and Spurs fans. Yes, there's a rivalry but basically we're not that different, we just wear different colours (unlike Chelsea fans who do have a different and much nastier streak).
I'm generalising, obviously, but generalizations are generally true, that's how they become generalizations.
When Rocky died it was before a NLD, the Spurs fans observed it perfectly to their eternal credit - some things are bigger than petty football or national rivalries and this is one of them.

Is this more important or awful than other things going on in the world? Well no, obviously not. But this one is so unexpected and so close to home. If it can happen in Paris it can happen in London so of course people will be more affected. It's just how people think. Whaddaya do?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Roughly the same number of people were lost in a Russian jet 3 weeks ago. No outpouring of grief for them

Must be because nobody is white in Russia.

[Letters]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...Match-Day.html

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barca gave River Plate a good kicking 3-0, Messi with the first, Suarez with the other two.

World Champions for the third time are Barca.

[Kano]

8 year ban for Blatter and Platini.

All clear at FIFA for another crook to step in and fill the void.