St George's Day

[Guest]

I see that the Burton Albion fixture falls on St George’s Day.

 

Do the club have any plans to celebrate this occasion?

 

St George's Day Events

The Value of St George

stgeorgesday.com

St George's Day 2005

[DarrenGNFC]

St. George is an inspiration to us all:

 

He beat the crap out of someone to impress a bird, and he did it whilst on holiday in the Mediterranean.

 

*Credit - Al Murray. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

Still, national pride is a bit of an alien thing in this country...except from when England are playing in the World Cup/European Championships <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Funny how celebrating your Patron is called Jingoism in Britain, In America it's called Patriotism!

[Guest]

I think as time goes on more and more people will celebrate St George's Day.

 

Its pathetic how certain people in this country try to paint people as racist just because they have pride in their country, and its history and culture.

 

I enjoyed St George’s Day last year and hopefully with it falling on a Saturday this year more people will be able to celebrate it.

[Harry J Allstars]

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Anonymous said:
I see that the Burton Albion fixture falls on St George’s Day.

Do the club have any plans to celebrate this occasion?

St George's Day Events
The Value of St George
stgeorgesday.com
St George's Day 2005

Thank you for bringing these wonderful websites to our attention.

[Guest]

that's ok mate

[Riverview Supporter]

Im in Canada on St Georges Day

 

Mentioned it to the girlfriend and she said.

 

"Oh great , Ill cook a full roast and we can then go out for some Guiness"

 

Bless

[mala_D]

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AmericanFLEETFANNo1 said:
Funny how celebrating your Patron is called Jingoism in Britain, In America it's called Patriotism!

Wasn't it Samuel Johnson who said "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" ? ......or something like that!

[Graham S]

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AmericanFLEETFANNo1 said:
Funny how celebrating your Patron is called Jingoism in Britain, In America it's called Patriotism!

Jingoism, I think, is that peculiarly old fashioned, Captain Mainwaring type of pariotism which only really returns when the tabloids whip it up for a royal anniversary or wedding or suchlike. As a rabid republican (of the Oliver Cromwell rather than George Bush variety, I hasten to add) I have no time for jingoism.

Nationalism has a nasty racist undertone & is based on the premise that my country is the best & that gives me the right to behave appallingly towards anyone from anywhere else.

True patriotism is having pride in your own country, while maintaining proper respect for other people's right to be patriotic about their particular homeland. I think it was Tony Adams who was very good on this distinction when interviewed about his own fierce national pride. Nothing wrong with patriotism at all. However, like the Union Jack, the flag of St George & old Georgie himself (who ironically, if I remember correctly, was a Turk living in Palestine) the term has been hi-jacked & mis-used by racists & bigots in the past for their own ends.

Graham S

[DarrenGNFC]

I think St. George was from Malta. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Graham S]

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maladroit said:

Wasn't it Samuel Johnson who said "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" ? ......or something like that!

Indeed: Sammy Johnson

As for Georgie Boy's origins, if anybody's interested there's this:
Poncey Article on St George

Graham S

[David Holden]

I'll tell you something, he is a busy boy:

 

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St George is still venerated in a large number of places, by followers of particular occupations and sufferers from certain diseases. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece; and of Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice (second to St Mark). He is patron of soldiers, cavalry and chivalry; of farmers and field workers, Boy Scouts and butchers; of horses, riders and saddlers; and of sufferers from leprosy, plague and syphilis. He is particularly the patron saint of archers, which gives special point to these famous lines from Shakespeare's Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1, l. 31:

 

Full article is available here