After a chorus of criticism, the organisers of the men’s Rugby World Cup in France have bowed to pressure and promised to re-record the pre-match national anthems which they said fans found “disturbing”.
A project involving 7,000 schoolchildren from diverse backgrounds, La Mêlée des Chœurs, has seen choirs singing each country’s anthem without accompanying music, but the response from inside the stadiums was overwhelmingly negative.
