Wales v England, singing
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Hello, Prince Monyn here. Wales is the land of song and to prove this, we're going to a rugby international.
It's Wales v England, another easily predictable match (Wales winning, of course). The terraces are full of screaming fans, English and Welsh, the air is electric and as the players com on, the whole stadium erupts. Then it’s time to sing the national anthems (For more information, check out my entry on "Wales v England, national anthems") At once all the Welsh people stand for the English anthem, even if the English won't stand for theirs. This shows how respectful Wales are of other countries.
For instance: When the disaster on the train at Paddington happened, there was a minute of silence in Wembley and at Cardiff Arms Park. 72,500 Welshmen stood dead silent, even though it was nothing to do with them, but 70,000 English men couldn't, even though it was their country that was affected.
Anyway, getting back to the game, the camera scrolls the English side and they are all looking pretty embarrassed, standing there muttering something that's not their national anthem ( Half of them aren’t English anyway, the cheats ). The crowd, too, are energetically waving their flags, but not really singing. Now comes the Welsh National anthem.
A choir of thousands of voices make the stadium quake and people from miles around can hear the beautiful sound carried on the wind. All the team are singing so loud that the camera man is forced backward and the final, sweet chord drowns out the band.
And it doesn’t stop there, during the game, other songs break out from the crowd. But they are Welsh songs, and those that are English have about four words in total such as " Football's coming home, It's coming home It's coming home, It's coming " and so on. I can imagine the England v New Zealand mach with the English singing their adopted song "swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home" And the New Zealanders with their powerful haka " AHH CORRA NOS HAKKA HI DA HI DA !!!!! ". A bit of a contrast in power, don't you think?
So that concludes it pretty much, Wales is better than England at singing.
It's Wales v England, another easily predictable match (Wales winning, of course). The terraces are full of screaming fans, English and Welsh, the air is electric and as the players com on, the whole stadium erupts. Then it’s time to sing the national anthems (For more information, check out my entry on "Wales v England, national anthems") At once all the Welsh people stand for the English anthem, even if the English won't stand for theirs. This shows how respectful Wales are of other countries.
For instance: When the disaster on the train at Paddington happened, there was a minute of silence in Wembley and at Cardiff Arms Park. 72,500 Welshmen stood dead silent, even though it was nothing to do with them, but 70,000 English men couldn't, even though it was their country that was affected.
Anyway, getting back to the game, the camera scrolls the English side and they are all looking pretty embarrassed, standing there muttering something that's not their national anthem ( Half of them aren’t English anyway, the cheats ). The crowd, too, are energetically waving their flags, but not really singing. Now comes the Welsh National anthem.
A choir of thousands of voices make the stadium quake and people from miles around can hear the beautiful sound carried on the wind. All the team are singing so loud that the camera man is forced backward and the final, sweet chord drowns out the band.
And it doesn’t stop there, during the game, other songs break out from the crowd. But they are Welsh songs, and those that are English have about four words in total such as " Football's coming home, It's coming home It's coming home, It's coming " and so on. I can imagine the England v New Zealand mach with the English singing their adopted song "swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home" And the New Zealanders with their powerful haka " AHH CORRA NOS HAKKA HI DA HI DA !!!!! ". A bit of a contrast in power, don't you think?
So that concludes it pretty much, Wales is better than England at singing.
