Went to the pub on Saturday to watch the Israel-England football match. Dull game.
A thought did occur to me though, when the anthems were sung.
If England had chosen to drop "God save the Queen" in favour of a specifically English anthem, they might well have had "Jerusalem", which would be many people's choice.
So the Israelis would have sung "HaTikvah", about the hope of the Jewish people "to be a free nation in the land of Zion and Jerusalem".
And the English would have sung about the desire "to build a new Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land".
No doubt confusing to a neutral.
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