Live recording from The F A Cup final 1927 "abide with Me" 92,000 voices

[scall83]

I was at the FA Cup Final this year, the problem is that the crowd don't know Abide with Me is playing, it's not played over the PA system. You can hardly notice it. The fact that some awful singers ruin it makes it worse. They should just play the band through the PA system and let the crowd do the rest.

[negba]

Watching the FA Cup final this year I noted the lack of singing of 'Abide With Me'. Is it that football has changed so much that people don't know the words or is it that it means nothing to the fans of today? In years gone by it was a sung with great passion by the real fans of the past. I can almost feel all those coalminers, steel workers and others - with so much pride and respect. Now it seems its about money, prawns, shirts and tickets andr £200,000 a week

[harrychown1989]

@negba Over-amped female x-factor singers doesn't help recreate this amazing sound from 1927 when 91 000 people sung in unison...

[kanenkitten]

@harrychown1989: The Arsenal and Cardiff fans did a splendid job here. Nice to hear the first performance of the hymn that keeps the English traditions in the FA cup.

[harrychown1989]

Chilling but comforting to know that those are the voices of 92 000 of our grandfathers and fathers and great grandfathers singing like they mean it. 1927, wow.

[toogyman]

Liverpool v Celtic

[TheSmithersy]

@toogyman: No, Arsenal v Cardiff City

[quentedlin]

Wow, I wept.

Ephraim, one day you will sing this song with your brother Manasseh across the sea, "And the light of (TRUE celto-saxon) Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One (CHRIST JESUS) for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day."

God speed the day.

[hogalog]

@quentedlin you use a video about football supporters singing a hymn to push some and semitic political shite? grow up.

[dickinsm]

that was amazing how did you manage to get this ?

[EMGColonel]

@dickinsm It was a commercially produced record sold in 1927

[miserichord]

Wonderful ! I doubt that any crowd these days would provide such a stirring rendition.

[hogalog]

@miserichord the reason: nobody goes to church any more and knows the words. ill admit myself that i dont go to church, but i do know the words to this hymn.

[TheSmithersy]

@hogalog: What? I still go to church.

[Mikeb1001]

@miserichord Actually, I'm of the opinion that if they ditched the female opera singers leading it at Wembley these days, you'd hear it faithfully sung by the crowd, even on the videos on here. It's one of the last great tritions remaining of English football and it's treasured by English fans.

[harrychown1989]

@miserichord Agreed. Today's FA cup final was ruined by an Xfactor bimbo who couldn't sing the national anthem....

[Mikeb1001]

Just to point out to the presenter, 1927 was the first time Abide With Me was sung at the FA Cup Final. It is a tradition which is upheld to this day, that Abide With Me is sung straight after God Save the King/Queen.

[EMGColonel]

@Mikeb1001 Thanks very much !