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Is it time to replace Scotland’s sporting anthem?

18 January 2023

11:42 PM

18 January 2023

11:42 PM

‘Flower of Scotland’ is the unofficial national anthem north of the border but soon enough we may never hear its like again. Jim Telfer, one of the country’s most celebrated rugby coaches, has called for the song to be dropped at sporting events in favour of an alternative that ‘shows us standing for something rather than against something as a country’.

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