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Today is St George's Day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Your patron saint wasn't English. Your flag wasn't English either. Here's why we claimed them both. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 He was from Cappadocia. Modern Turkey. A Roman soldier. The Praetorian Guard. Diocletian's personal bodyguard. 303 AD. The Emperor orders him to persecute Christians. He refuses. Walks into the throne room. Tells the Emperor his order is cruel. They offer him his life back. Gold. Land. His old command. He refuses again. 23rd of April, 303. They behead him. 1,723 years ago today. The flag was Genoese. 1099. Their navy was so feared that Barbary pirates turned home at the sight of it. In 1190, Richard the Lionheart signed a treaty. English ships could fly the cross for protection. We flew it so long we forgot it wasn't ours. In 2018, the Mayor of Genoa wrote to the Queen asking for 247 years of back rent. She didn't reply. Edward III makes George our patron saint. Henry V cries his name at Agincourt. A Roman soldier from Cappadocia became the name Englishmen died for. We didn't inherit our patron saint. We chose him. And we chose a soldier who refused. That is your history. This is who we are. 🇬🇧 We find what Britain has forgotten. And we tell it properly. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The most spoken language on Earth. Born on this island. Fifteen hundred years ago, three tribes crossed the North Sea. Angles. Saxons. Jutes. They brought words we still use today. Earth. Water. Fire. Love. Mother. Father. Child. They called their language Englisc. They called this place Engla land. Land of the Angles. Then the Vikings came. They didn't just raid. They settled. Became neighbours. And when you live next door to someone, your languages merge. Sky. Skull. Knife. Window, the Viking for "wind-eye." They. Them. Their. Those aren't English words. They're Viking. Ordinary people chose them because they worked better. Then came 1066. The Normans conquered England. The new rulers spoke French. For three hundred years, English had no official status in its own country. But the people never stopped speaking it. The farmer called it a cow. The lord called it beef. Pig and pork. Sheep and mutton. That class divide is still on your plate tonight. English didn't die. It swallowed ten thousand French words and came back stronger. Today. One and a half billion people speak this language. Every pilot on Earth speaks it. Half the internet is written in it. No academy designed it. No king commanded it. It was built by ordinary people. On this island. They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. You're the reason these stories reach millions of people. Not sponsors. Not ads. You. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@ellismatt81 @memechaotic 😂

@memechaotic Is this you @Peal07

Wtf did I just watch 💀

@RoyRogers_HTMS @noelfielding11 this you?

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Another of The Stone Roses support bands, The La’s, playing There She Goes outside the Pumphouse pub or (Edit5) next to Granada TV Albert Dock, Liverpool 1990 🎥 footage courtesy of John Newsham

@_GeorgeSmith99 This

As frustrating and disappointing as it is to see #SWFC’s decline, we can’t say it has been unexpected. This team finished mid-table last season and lost 16 players. Practically every source of goals and creativity left. Only three outfield signings since. Only one man to blame.

@WednesdayRob Chin up lad was always going to be tough.

Who’s sick of this season! 🥺🦉

@adam7485 Given our position and the players were left with, it was a shit decision

Why do Weds fans always pretend a player was good once they’ve left us? He was awful, could barely get in the team, a one trick pony who wouldn’t be a pro if he wasn’t fast #swfc

@dan_N_smith Not sure getting on his back will help right now. They’re doing their best but agree next season we need a refresh. I’d like to see him on the coaching team maybe

Pedersen out as soon as we’re relegated. Bloke’s more lost than Xisco. #swfc

@ChampionshpTalk Brilliant

Hull City fans: "We saw you crying on Wembley way" Wednesday fans reply: "You lying bastards you weren’t even there" 😂😂😂 #SWFC #HCAFC

Can’t wait to play @thecoralband Xmas tune on the big day and watch the faces 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💀