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Rugby - England tradition?
Why do English supporters sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot? I thought this song was sung by the African Americans during the slavery period with the actual meaning of this song having to do nothing with England or Rugby.
The explanation is here
http://www.everyhit.com/stories/swing_lo w_sweet_chariot.html
Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, England; a seminary for English boys founded by Cardinal Allen in 1568 in France, relocated to England in 1903. Run by Benedictine Monks, the Abbey has its own school which, in turn, has a rugby team. ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ has long since been the song of the 1st-XV of the Douai rugby team. No one is now sure how this came to be, but it is not difficult to imagine how such a Gospel song, with its spiritual roots and connotations of ‘escape and evasion’ could prove to be a popular source of inspiration for young sportsmen in a Benedictine environment.
On 18th March 1988 a group of students from the Douai team attended the England V Ireland rugby match at Twickenham. They were bunched in front of the lower east stand. Whenever an England player was in with a chance of scoring the ‘merry’ band of students would pipe up with ‘their’ anthem. They delivered this with particular vigour when Nigerian-born wing Chris Oti ran in his first try for England. Inspired by the response and amusement of the spectators immediately around them the students struck up with added gusto as Chris Oti scored a second try. By the time the player, now on a roll, scored his try-hat trick the chorus reached such a crescendo that, seemingly, the whole of the England supporters joined in and an anthem was born.
Sir Paddles returns | Nov 08, 2009
we loose so much it gives us somthing to do
Tommy J | Nov 08, 2009
It’s because England are the whipping boys of world rugby.
Arlanymor | Nov 08, 2009