• The forum upgrades are now largely complete.
    Please read this thread for more details.
    New user registrations are currently disabled.

The mags are claiming Durham CC now

bedlington mackem said:
would never have happened under Paul Collingwoods watch
Click to expand...

Except it did. He sang it as heartily as anyone else, because he realised it’s connection to Durham CCC has f*ckall to do with NUFC.

You must be logged on to see media items
Skylon said:
Don't think so. Singing about Scotswood Road and Blaydon hardly seems appropriate for a durham anthem. I know Blaydon 'was' in Durham, but I bet next to nobody associates Blaydon with durham.
Click to expand...

Durham FA and Durham County Cricket Board do.
Skylon said:
Aye, I am. Just don't see what Blaydon and Scotswood Road have to do with a durham team that plays in Chester le street
Click to expand...

Blaydon is in the ceremonial county of Durham. The Durham team represents the COUNTY of DURHAM.
 
Last edited:

brandon said:
Except it did. He sang it as heartily as anyone else, because he realised it’s connection to Durham CCC has f*ckall to do with NUFC.

You must be logged on to see media items


Durham FA and Durham County Cricket Board do.


Blaydon is in the ceremonial county of Durham. The Durham team represents the COUNTY of DURHAM.
Click to expand...
Surely Blaydon teams play in the gateshead league? They used to.
 
Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
The stark, bald truth.
One of these where I'm genuinely scratching my head at how some on here have bought this. And a football song. That as long as Durham CCC has been a first class county (1992) has been unequivocally associated with Newcastle United Football Club.
Click to expand...

Durham County Cricket Club have existed for longer than NUFC. Let that one sink in.
Skylon said:
Surely Blaydon teams play in the gateshead league? They used to.
Click to expand...

Gateshead ALSO is in the historical county of Durham.
 
Last edited:
Skylon said:
So is sunderland.Why don't they sing 'sunderland boys' by lindisfarne?
Click to expand...

I have no idea, go to the ground and ask them. They’re at home a fortnight on Tuesday (26th) against Leicestershire 👍
Sea to Shining Sea said:
It’s a Newcastle song like. Balmbra’s was Newcastle, Collingwood Street is Newcastle, Scotswood Road Newcastle, Armstrong’s Factory was Newcastle. It’s sang by Newcastle, associated with Newcastle and is Newcastle.

And Newcastle isn’t County Durham
Click to expand...

:lol:

It’s a song about a race in County Durham :lol:
-
Using your logic, can you tell me where the song Rotterdam by the Beautiful South is about?
 
Last edited:
Sea to Shining Sea said:
It’s a Newcastle song like. Balmbra’s was Newcastle, Collingwood Street is Newcastle, Scotswood Road Newcastle, Armstrong’s Factory was Newcastle. It’s sang by Newcastle, associated with Newcastle and is Newcastle.

And Newcastle isn’t County Durham
Click to expand...
It's an absolutely crazy choice of song for Durham cricketers to sing really. The more you think about it ,the dafter it seems.
 
brandon said:
I have no idea, go to the ground and ask them. They’re at home a fortnight on Tuesday (26th) against Leicestershire 👍


:lol:

It’s a song about a race in County Durham :lol:
-
Using your logic, can you tell me where the song Rotterdam by the Beautiful South is about?
Click to expand...

Bad example. Because that song isn’t about Rotterdam (per se)

There aren’t many people in the north east who would associate the Blaydon Races song with County Durham. The vast majority of people, if asked, would say it’s a Newcastle song. And they’d be right. Because it is.
 
Last edited:
Sea to Shining Sea said:
g aBad example. Because that song isn’t about Rotterdam (per se)

There aren’t many people in the north east who would associate the Blaydon Races song with County Durham. The vast majority of people, if asked, would say it’s a Newcastle song. And they’d be right. Because it is.
Click to expand...

It’s not a bad example, because it highlights perfectly what I’m getting at - the ambiguity with place names and meanings of songs. People who say the Blaydon Races is a Newcastle song would be wrong. It’s a Blaydon song. It’s about a race in Blaydon, County Durham.
Skylon said:
Rotterdam, Liverpool, and rome?
Click to expand...

No, it can’t be all of them. It has to be one. That was your (and @Sea to Shining Sea) rule, remember.

What about Panic by The Smiths….. where’s that about?
 
Last edited:
brandon said:
It’s not a bad example, because it highlights perfectly what I’m getting at - the ambiguity with place names and meanings of songs. People who say the Blaydon Races is a Newcastle song would be wrong. It’s a Blaydon song. It’s about a race in Blaydon, County Durham.
Click to expand...

It’s more about the journey from Newcastle, through, via and past several Newcastle locations to get to an event on the very edge of County Durham. It’s known as a Newcastle song, sang by Newcastle United supporters and associated with Tyneside.

The Jarrow March is associated with Jarrow, not London where they were going :lol:
brandon said:
It’s not a bad example, because it highlights perfectly what I’m getting at - the ambiguity with place names and meanings of songs. People who say the Blaydon Races is a Newcastle song would be wrong. It’s a Blaydon song. It’s about a race in Blaydon, County Durham.


No, it can’t be all of them. It has to be one. That was your (and @Sea to Shining Sea) rule, remember.

What about Panic by The Smiths….. where’s that about?
Click to expand...

I hadn’t made any such rule :lol:
 
Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
Not as a first class county
county they haven't. Let that sink in.
Click to expand...

That makes absolutely no difference whatsoever given that they’ve been singing it since BEFORE they became a first class county.
Sea to Shining Sea said:
an event on the very edge of County Durham.
Click to expand...

Thank you for confirming it’s a song about an event in County Durham.

It matters not whether it’s the edge, centre or the f*cking crust.
 
Last edited:
brandon said:
That makes absolutely no difference whatsoever given that they’ve been singing it since BEFORE they became a first class county.


Thank you for confirming it’s a song about an event in County Durham.

It matters not whether it’s the edge, centre or the f*cking crust.
Click to expand...
When did they adopt it?
 
brandon said:
That makes absolutely no difference whatsoever given that they’ve been singing it since BEFORE they became a first class county.


Thank you for confirming it’s a song about an event in County Durham.

It matters not whether it’s the edge, centre or the f*cking crust.
Click to expand...

It’s a song about an event in County Durham, chronicling the journey through the very heart of Newcastle referencing numerous streets and venues in the west end of Newcastle. It’s not really about the Blaydon Races. It’s a song associated almost solely with Tyneside and Newcastle by the vast majority of people in and outside the region. Adopted by the Northumberland Fusiliers based in Fenham not long after it was written and by Newcastle United FC.

It’s a Newcastle song. If the Durham players want to sing it, fair enough. But it’s a Newcastle song like
 
Zimba said:
Not sure if you genuinely don't know but this is the old A1 route until not too long ago:
Seaton Burn - Gosforth - Northumberland Street - Tyne Bridge - Gateshead High Street - Low Fell - Birtley - Chester Le Street - Durham (Neville's Cross)

It's basically the B1318 / A167 in today's number.

The A1 didn't go anywhere near Scotswood Road until 1990.
Click to expand...
At the risk of veering further off topic (maybe not a bad thing) you’ve not gone back far enough though. You wouldn’t have used the Tyne Bridge (or even the Swing Bridge) when the song was written, for the most fundamental reason of all - not built yet. I think the furthest downstream road bridge then was the old Scotswood bridge, the “Chain Bridge” of the song. So that would have been how you’d get to Durham and where you’d route the Great North Road at the time.
 
Last edited:
brandon said:
It’s not a bad example, because it highlights perfectly what I’m getting at - the ambiguity with place names and meanings of songs. People who say the Blaydon Races is a Newcastle song would be wrong. It’s a Blaydon song. It’s about a race in Blaydon, County Durham.


No, it can’t be all of them. It has to be one. That was your (and @Sea to Shining Sea) rule, remember.

What about Panic by The Smiths….. where’s that about?
Click to expand...
If its that ambiguous, why use it as a durham anthem? Its daft. Should be sunderland boys
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
You know the rest is right as well :lol:
Click to expand...

The rest is irrelevant, nobody except the bloke who wrote it has ownership. If the mags sing it, so what. Liverpool and Celtic sing You’ll Never Walk Alone. Who has the greater right? Should one stop singing it because the other does??

Durham have been singing the Blaydon Races as our victory song for years and years. Including during times when the club captain and several players were MLF’s (Colly, Borthwick, etc).

Fortunately for those of us who love Durham CCC we’ve heard it plenty of times this year and long may it continue. For those of you who are getting upset about it, do you even give a toss about Durham CCC? If so, get yourself down to the ground for the title celebration starting Tuesday 26 September and voice your grievances in person to the team. See where that gets you 👍
Skylon said:
If its that ambiguous, why use it as a durham anthem?
Click to expand...

Ask the club or players.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top