Norn Ireland V. The Mother Land

[pete]

England don't have their own National Anthem.
They use the British National Anthem, God Save The Queen (formerly God Save The King).

That was my understand too.

[OwlsFan]

The interesting thing will be if they play the anthem twice (think they only played it once in Wembley) do the Norn Iron fans boo the first one and sing along to the second one ?

[Castle Barracks]

Peadar's dead right!Most of us Welsh like to claim that we are different to the English,but he rightly states that there are plenty of Union-jack waving people when the Royals come to visit,although these are mostly children!Will be interesting to see the reception they get should they ever visit the Irish Republic,or Nationalist areas of the North!

[dublinred]

....will the play God Save the Queen Twice.......

Appartently they will play twice so each set of supporters gets a chance to boo the others anthem as is tradional with the nordies and English.

[Dublin12]

I think it will be played once as they only have 1 queen to save.

[Poor Student]

This is a pointless thread which offers little by way of discussion on football.