I’d feel a lot more informed if someone went and asked Martin Offiah and Chris Oti for their views. As someone who is a WASP (as well as a Wasps fan), this is not a perspective that I would lay claim to having and I certainly have no clue as to whether I should or should not be taking offence on someone else’s behalf.
If Swing Low does disappear, it will present quite conundrum as to what the Irish, Scots and Welsh will request in song for us to stick up our jacksies.
Ross M asked why we adopted the song in the first place. Like the other home nations, we needed something other than the National Anthem and this probably happened along at the right time. I guess we should count ourselves fortunate that a wandering hippy didn’t pen some dirge about flowers of England back in the ‘60s.