A Cardiff pub said it will play the song Delilah "loud" and "on a loop" on the first day of the Six Nations. The Old Arcade in the city centre was responding to the Welsh Rugby Union's announcement that it had removed the tune from its Principality Stadium choirs' playlist.
Sir Tom Jones' 1968 hit, about a jealous lover stabbing his unfaithful partner, reached number two in the charts before going on to become a Welsh favourite among the rugby-loving public and a fixture in the Principality Stadium and its predecessors on matchdays. But its place in modern society has been debated in recent years, with one line of the lyrics reading “I crossed the street to her house and she opened the door. She stood there laughing, I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more.”
Ahead of the Wales v Ireland game in the capital on Saturday (February 4), the Old Arcade wrote on social media: "We will be playing Delilah. It will be loud. It will be on a loop." The post received more than 200 likes and comments, with most people commenting in support the move. The pub later took the post down.
