Calm down mate. Its only a songThe 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
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I’m not the one crying like a little girl because Durham CCC are singing the wrong* song.
*in some peoples eyes.
Sea to Shining Sea
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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
Im not upset. They can sing it if they want. But it’s a Newcastle song and widely acknowledged as being so.
Why should it be Sunderland boys? Exactly the same local government based logic that lets you say Blaydon isn’t in County Durham, or at least hasn’t been since Durham had first class status, applies to Sunderland. More so in fact since Sunderland was a County Borough before 1973.
mosi
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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
Hear hear. If any of you need directions to the ground, I’ll happily post a link. I suspect many of these dissenters don’t know where it is.
Like I say, calm down. Nobody is crying. Nothing the matter with people wondering why a song about a place in gateshead, with references to places in Newcastle, is Durhams anthem. It is quite unusual, you must admit.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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It did
By the same logic people are saying Blaydon Races is a durham song.Surely a song about sunderland is a durham song
Why? To have an opinion on something do you have to go to the source of it? It's just an opinion, don't take it too seriously
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You can keep saying calm down as much as you want to try and force this ridiculous implication that I’m angry or upset or whatever, but it doesn’t make it true. I’m perfectly calm, because I’m comfortable with this situation. I reiterate, it isn’t me complaining about Durham CCC singing a song.
And you can keep saying people are getting upset about it as much as you want, they aren't. You are the one getting sweary and that. Panic is a great song by the way!
Silly Point
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Football only types are f***ing idiots
Never thought I'd be talking about bridges on a Saturday night, but it was 1862 the song was wrote if I'm right, so the High Level Bridge should've been there at the time (1849). There's always been a bridge over the Tyne where the Swing Bridge is now since Roman Times though.
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Info on the old bridges there.
Twisted
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The current captain is just as sunlun daft as collingwood
So why does this thread even exist if people aren’t getting upset about it?? Clearly they are. 15 pages of not being arsed whatsoever about a song that Durham cricketers sing when they win a game
Agreed.
The footballification of cricket can f*ck off
The people swearing like yourself, and people being snobbish cos other people dont go to cricket seem to be the ones getting upset. It's alright man, it's a messageboard. People discuss things. You think the song is fine, other people don't. It's not the end of the world.So why does this thread even exist if people aren’t getting upset about it?? Clearly they are. 15 pages of not being arsed whatsoever about a song that Durham cricketers sing when they win a game
Agreed.
The footballification of cricket can f*ck off
Silly Point
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Why do people who don't go even care? That's what's winding those that do go up more than anything
I swear in the majority of my posts - it isn’t a sign of anger.
People aren’t being snobbish about those who don’t go, they’re rightly pointing out that it’s a bit daft being outraged about something you clearly care very little about - the vast majority of us who DO go and watch Durham don’t give a toss about the song they sing when they win. We just want to see them win.
Silly point
Steak Pie
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Canny leap that like.
Remind me, why was this thread started again? Was is someone saying how much they like the club's unnoficial anthem?
Or something else?
