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What about St Edward the Confessor? Or St Charles the Martyr?
Neither of those Johnnie-come-latelies: St Alban. Native (well, "English" at any rate) and a proper saint, too - martyr, miracles: the full works. Far more appropriate than that Greco-Syrian myth foisted on us by the Franco-Vikings! (Your ancestors have a LOT to answer for, Bbm! <sternlookalapaddingtonemoticon> )
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...and St Piran! I didn't notice any St G celebrations here yesterday but St Piran's day was well celebrated in the Count(r)y.
Sorry if this depresses you cloughie but I was in Millbrook today and its hostelry was still liberally strung with flags of St George and had offered an English-themed menu yesterday
But then its very name is rather disloyal to its own county: The Devon and Cornwall Inn. I had pointed out the incorrect order last time I was in(n) there
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
Shame MrGG & Richard Barrett don't understand Association Football (one of them at least has claimed it's rubbish )
All composers have to have a team. Its in the MU rules.
Elgar, DSCH , Nyman. All learned their craft immersed in the folk idioms of the terraces.......
GG and Barrett are just posing on this.....
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
All composers have to have a team. Its in the MU rules.
Elgar, DSCH , Nyman. All learned their craft immersed in the folk idioms of the terraces.......
GG and Barrett are just posing on this.....
Couple of poseurs? Neither.
RB is a closet Man Utd supporter
MrGG supports any club that lost that week, but were robbed
Sorry if this depresses you cloughie but I was in Millbrook today and its hostelry was still liberally strung with flags of St George and had offered an English-themed menu yesterday
But then its very name is rather disloyal to its own county: The Devon and Cornwall Inn. I had pointed out the incorrect order last time I was in(n) there
All composers have to have a team. Its in the MU rules.
Elgar, DSCH , Nyman. All learned their craft immersed in the folk idioms of the terraces.......
I didn't learn mine that way - so either I'm not a proper composer or I'm in breach of MU's rules or both!
Tom Service: Novelty records aside, the beautiful game has inspired composers from Elgar to Nyman
At least the flag in the picture keeps this thread remotely on topic ...
James MacMillan, sporting a Celtic scarf, once had a photo in a Proms Guide, I remember well.
And, of course, one of the most popular current football chants sung by fans throughout the globe is a direct quote from Bruckner's Fifth Symphony, though some wretched American pop group which admitted to shamelessly plagiarising the catchy theme gets the official credit.
Finally, what the thuggish, moronic American Football has to do with the 'beautiful game' I haven't the foggiest.
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