Will England fans really sing the French national anthem tomorrow?

[maltaseagull]

If this is one way to show the french people our support and solidarity at this difficult time then absolutely I will sing it.

Don't see why it should be seen as anything other than a true gesture of friendship TBH but then I guess others are entitled to a different view.

Absolutely agree with this. It is a time to show the vermin that are IS that they will not ever overcome the spirit and humanity of the European Nations.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

No.

Respecting a minutes silence yes.

Call me cynical but I'm betting quite a few singalong fans on this thread would be singing a very different tune if there had been a similar situation after 9/11.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Paris isn't very welcoming to the Brits is it so the answer is NO
regards
DR

Really? We have three offices in Paris and have been to Paris over 10 times. We have always found them extremely welcoming and our colleagues are the most professional and sociable people you could meet.

Maybe you have been mixing with the wrong types...

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

SEEMS A BIT CHEESY

Luckily we don't all think the same.

Mind you, if the country thought the same as you we probably would be singing Deutschland Uber Alles.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Why on earth would anyone not ? Jesus !

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Call me cynical but I'm betting quite a few singalong fans on this thread would be singing a very different tune if there had been a similar situation after 9/11.

We were at Withdean watching the Saints.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Bore off, the vast majority of the rearguard was the 51st highland division.

The 51st didn't form a rearguard at Dunkirk as they'd already been cut off from the main BEF force being evacuated. They fought with the French 3rd army along the Somme, where they fought several days after the last evacuations from Dunkirk on 4 June had left. The 10,000 that remained were taken prisoner after a last stand at Saint Valéry.

 

[spence]

Really? We have three offices in Paris and have been to Paris over 10 times. We have always found them extremely welcoming and our colleagues are the most professional and sociable people you could meet.

Maybe you have been mixing with the wrong types...

Each to their own i guess. Out of all the European countries i find the French the most unfriendliest. Funny thing is, we have fought two major wars against the Germans and yet i find German people much more sociable. I actually enjoy their company when travelling.

But this isn't about whether you like a nation or not. What happened in France the other day is deeply saddening and i'm only to happy to respect a minutes silence or donate money. That's enough.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

We were at Withdean watching the Saints.

Well at least your consistent either sing all of them or none of them. Seems fair enough.

 

[dazzer6666]

Really? We have three offices in Paris and have been to Paris over 10 times. We have always found them extremely welcoming and our colleagues are the most professional and sociable people you could meet.

Maybe you have been mixing with the wrong types...

Hmm. Colleagues, maybe....and if you speak decent French, you're fine. However as a bumbling visitor who can remember about 10% of O level French (none of which is any use at all) I have found Parisians snobby, rude and patronising on multiple visits. Waiters are the worst.
It's different away from Paris though.

Not sure I'd sing the National Anthem, partly because I'd prefer a minute's silence but more so because I wouldn't be able to. Suspect most will clap along or be duh-duh-duh-duhhhing to it (bit like GOSBTS at the Amex). Each to their own - as has been said, will happily rip the piss out of the French at any opportunity, but at this time we're standing together. It'll be us next probably.

 

[mona]

Troll?mmmm
Give over....The French would be in the top two of countries we would dislike if a poll appeared.

We? You're Reading anyway. The first friendly in Le Havre happened two days after the London tube bombings. Found the locals particularly friendly probably as a result of the atrocities.
I would struggle to sing the Marseillaise as I can't sing anyway but prefer to be in Dieppe, Le Touquet or even Calais than Reading.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

a minutes silence is sufficient, MUMBLING/HUMMING THROUGH ANOTHER NATIONAL ANTHEM SEEMS A BIT CHEESY
regards
DR

Mumbling? My French is bloody brilliant, I'll have you know. Aux armes, citoyens!

 

[looney]

Do you think all Frenchmen ride bicycles wearing red or blue hooped mariner shirts wearing a beret and with a string of garlic round their necks

Yes they do but I'd want to sing it, the bit about being drenched in our enemies blood appeals.

 

[Arthur]

Paddy Barclay had an interesting piece in the Evening Standard this evening on this very subject.

More constructive observers have suggested a largely English crowd should try to sing the French anthem and the Football Association are to encourage this by displaying the words on Wembley’s giant screens. But, while any emphasis of support would be understandable, I am not sure how appropriate the words of the Marseillaise are — with all their talk of forming battalions against “impure blood” and so on — as opposed to the music (the same would be arguable about our anthem if the positions were reversed).

Rest here.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...ide-as-nations-unite-for-solemn-a3115396.html

 

[AmexRuislip]

If David Cameron can be bothered to speak French in his recent press conference, then I think that in the true spirit of football, England fans should sing along with the French national anthem, even if it means just La La La ing to the tune.

 

[5ways]

You'd have to be a particularly little Little Englander to not sing it.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

I wonder if the French would prefer we joined them in bombing ISIS in Syria or sing their national anthem at a football match.... now that's what I call real solidarity. Vive le France!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Hmm. Colleagues, maybe....and if you speak decent French, you're fine. However as a bumbling visitor who can remember about 10% of O level French (none of which is any use at all) I have found Parisians snobby, rude and patronising on multiple visits. Waiters are the worst.
It's different away from Paris though.

Not sure I'd sing the National Anthem, partly because I'd prefer a minute's silence but more so because I wouldn't be able to. Suspect most will clap along or be duh-duh-duh-duhhhing to it (bit like GOSBTS at the Amex). Each to their own - as has been said, will happily rip the piss out of the French at any opportunity, but at this time we're standing together. It'll be us next probably.

this ,buisness people are in it for one reason !
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

If David Cameron can be bothered to speak French in his recent press conference, then I think that in the true spirit of football, England fans should sing along with the French national anthem, even if it means just La La La ing to the tune.

la la land , mmmmmmmm
regards
DR

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Hmm. Colleagues, maybe....and if you speak decent French, you're fine. However as a bumbling visitor who can remember about 10% of O level French (none of which is any use at all) I have found Parisians snobby, rude and patronising on multiple visits. Waiters are the worst.
It's different away from Paris though.

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this is true,Parisians aren't liked outside of Paris generally

espcially in the South,Parisians think all southerners are thick as shit peasant farmers

hang on a minute,they are

seriously though,when I was in Paris with the misses as soon as they heard her southern accent they didn't give us the time of day