Rooney doesnt sing!

I wouldn't sing either. It'd be hypocritical of me to ask a deity I don't believe in to look after a monarch I don't really care about.
 
I think there is only one time more patriotic in the year than listening to Twickenham belt out the national anthem and that is the last night of the proms. It all seems very lack lustre at Wembley and the players don't even want to be there.
 
I can't sing a note to save my life, I have a horrible, horrible singing voice, I'm utterly embarassed to use it so I don't. If I was up there, I wouldn't sing because I don't want to, not because I'm disrespecting anything.

Likewise, not singing a national anthem, doesn't mean anything in the slightest.

Of all the things you could choose to pick to complain about concerning Rooney, the lack of him singing a pointless old pretty much meaningless song that doesn't prove a damn thing about you and who likely the loudest singers of are hooligans who will happily beat one of the rival fans to death, might well be the most pointless one to pick.
 
Killerkebab said:
I never said he was :confused:
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So why does it matter if hes not singing? If you agree he was chosen for his football abilities. When a singer is chosen to sing the national anthem at a football game you wouldn't moan at her for not joining in with the football. Wayne Rooney represents england with his actions on the pitch.
 
sanaxe1 said:
So why does it matter if hes not singing? If you agree he was chosen for his football abilities. When a singer is chosen to sing the national anthem at a football game you wouldn't moan at her for not joining in with the football. Wayne Rooney represents england with his actions on the pitch.
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Wayne Rooney was chosen to represent England. He's not on that pitch just for the sake of playing a game of football, he's on that pitch to play a game of football on England's behalf. It undermines the ceremonial aspect of lining the players up and playing the anthem in the first place :/

He's not expected to sing particularly well, either. He's expected to sing, because on that pitch he is his country's ambassador.
 
EdGey said:
What an utterly **** thread.
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^^ and yet you felt utterly compelled to post in it (...and thank goodness you did - your well thought out and astutely reasoned contribution has made it a richer and more fulfilling debate for us all...) ;)

I'm with TBird - if you are going to represent the country you should bloody well show some respect for it and it's traditions. Representing your country used to be an honour that few were privileged enough to enjoy, and I'd like to think that previous players have had the good grace to acknowledge that with a degree of grace and humility - characteristics I fear are sadly lacking from a great many of our players. Without harping on about the burden of 'Role Model' that high profile national representatives bear - I for one think learning the bloody words is the least he can do. But then for some I guess it is just a hollow money making venture.

Not the only one though...

Darling: [strangled voice] I'll have you court martialed for this, Blackadder!
Blackadder: What, for obeying the General's orders? That may be what you do in Munich — or should I say München — but not here, Werner. You're a filthy Hun spy, aren't you? Baldrick, the cocker spaniel, please.
Darling: [desperate] Ah! No, no, no, wait! No, look, I'm English! I was born in Croydon! [breathing heavily] I was educated at Ipplethorpe Primary School! I've got a girlfriend called Doris! I know the words to all three verses of "God save the King!"
Blackadder: Four verses!
Darling: Four verses! Four verses! I meant four verses! Look, I'm as British as Queen Victoria!
Blackadder: So your father's German, you're half-German and you married a German?
Darling: [crying] No, no! LOOK, FOR GOD'S SAKE, I'M NOT A GERMAN SPYYYYYYYYYY!
Blackadder: Good, thanks very much. Send the next man in, would you?
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MrLOL said:
is it though ?

Its our bloody national anthem for pete's sake

Am i alone in expecting players representing our country in sport to be belting it out as opposed to just half ****'d attempt and murmuring it ?
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Convert to the oval ball and you will not be disappointed!
 
Killerkebab said:
Wayne Rooney was chosen to represent England. He's not on that pitch just for the sake of playing a game of football, he's on that pitch to play a game of football on England's behalf. It undermines the ceremonial aspect of lining the players up and playing the anthem in the first place :/

He's not expected to sing particularly well, either. He's expected to sing, because on that pitch he is his country's ambassador.
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You are indeed correct and I whole heartedly support you in your cause to have national anthems done away with, the tedium of sitting through yet more rubbish filler before the game actually starts, the painfully bad singing, the generally terrible music, the often cliched rubbish that almost no one except the worst and most vile hooligans take to heart and use as a patriotic reason to beat the crap out of other supporters.

Down with anthems, good call you ;)
 
To the OP, seriously, do you expect anything else from a thick, ignorant, ill mannered, granny-prostitute using, ***** chav?
 
Killerkebab said:
Wayne Rooney was chosen to represent England. He's not on that pitch just for the sake of playing a game of football, he's on that pitch to play a game of football on England's behalf. It undermines the ceremonial aspect of lining the players up and playing the anthem in the first place :/

He's not expected to sing particularly well, either. He's expected to sing, because on that pitch he is his country's ambassador.
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unless the English government funds the England football team to play abroad he's playing for the profit of his company.


presumably you expect all of the people in your company that deal with foreign organizations to sing the national anthem before every meeting?

edit: anyway the English national anthem is **** tbh, get something about England and it might be worth singing.
 
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