Before the whistle blows and the ball even moves, there’s something else that moves the crowd: the anthems. The electrifying chants at Anfield, the spine-tingling moments in international arenas–these ...

Few songs in football carry the same emotional weight, cultural reach, and longevity as Blue Moon. Though originally written in 1934 by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart as a Hollywood ballad, its ...

The decision to change the anthem was to mark 120 years since the Welsh crowd first sang the anthem at a rugby international in spontaneous response to the All Blacks haka in 1905. It was, in fact, ...

The titles were often gloriously creative and diverse, some paying homage to terrace anthems, others making a clever play on words. Sales were decent, too, with more than one million copies shifted ...

He didn't sing the anthem. Everyone knew he wouldn't. Thomas Tuchel said beforehand he had to "earn the right" to do so. It was a neat swerve of a somewhat heated question from a coach who has handled ...

"I encourage those who will be at the stadium -- if the English anthem is sung, everyone should join in," said the 30-year-old Paris Saint-Germain star. Blaise Matuidi, pictured in May 2017, is ...