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The song has come under fire this week with former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan calling on Wales rugby fans, who have long since sung the No 2 hit from 1968 at international matches, to find another song to blast out to try and inspire their players.

Iwan claims the original lyrics of the song "trivialise the idea of murdering a woman" but the Welsh Rugby Union is disinclined to ban the song.

Stoke fans have been singing Delilah, first at the Victoria Ground and then the Britannia Stadium, since the 1980s although the lyrics have been altered to make them X-rated.

Bryan Shaw, a spokesman for the Stoke City Supporters' Club, said: "It's just a song we sing to encourage the team.

"I don't think anybody among the fans would ever even think it has anything to do with domestic violence.

"It's all tongue-in-cheek and I'm sure it's just an issue of today's society where 99 per cent of the country just get on with it but someone looks for a hidden meaning."

A spokesman for the Welsh Rugby Union, quoted by the South Wales Evening Post, said: "Within rugby, Delilah has gained prominence through its musicality rather than because of its lyrics.

"There is, however, plenty of precedent in art and literature, prominently in Shakespearean tragedies for instance, for negative aspects of life to be portrayed.

"The Welsh Rugby Union condemns violence against women and has taken a lead role in police campaigns to highlight and combat the issue.

"The WRU remains willing to listen to any strong public debate on the issue of censoring the use of Delilah but we have not been aware of any groundswell of opinion on this matter."

Nigels Tackle wrote:bitch got what she deserved.....






(joking)

Socrates wrote:Poor chap just couldn't help himself but to stab her... Using the tune isn't a problem but the original lyrics are definitely not for these times.

Ted Hughes wrote:

Socrates wrote:Poor chap just couldn't help himself but to stab her... Using the tune isn't a problem but the original lyrics are definitely not for these times.

Give over.

It's a fucking song not a statement of intent.

I wonder how many more we can get rid of because they are 'not for these times' ?

Perhaps we can all get together & burn a few books.

Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:

Ted Hughes wrote:

Socrates wrote:Poor chap just couldn't help himself but to stab her... Using the tune isn't a problem but the original lyrics are definitely not for these times.

Give over.

It's a fucking song not a statement of intent.

I wonder how many more we can get rid of because they are 'not for these times' ?

Perhaps we can all get together & burn a few books.

Titus Andronicus, for one. Not only does Shakespeare 'advocate' revenge instead of justice, but he encourages it through killing someone, cooking their brains in a pie and then feeding said pie at the dinner-table. Now, that kind of thing might go down well at Eton but it's not the kind of thing we'd like to see happening in the sink-estates of the North West of England.

Original Dub wrote:Hey socs -maybe we should cut all songs that have references to violence in them?

Let's start with Rockabye baby and then debate Ring a ring a rosie, because let's face it, we don't want everyone "falling down".

Grant me fucking PEACE.

patrickblue wrote:Maybe we shoild wait and see what the Daily Hitler Mail has to say before passing judgement.

Socrates wrote:Nobody is banning or burning anything, just suggesting there might be more appropriate songs. Maybe we should have Rolf Harris singing Two Little Boys before junior tennis matches?

Lev Bronstein wrote:A bit of context here. The bloke would have a case if it was the anthem of serial abusers of women. As it is, it's sung by Stoke City fans and followers of the Welsh rugby team.


Oh, hang on!!!!!