Being required to sing the National Anthem of the country you are playing for or managing should be a pre-requisite of the role. If you don't want to sing it, don't be involved.

We're going soft by saying well if he doesn't want to or if he feels offended by it. How pathetic some sound. How about saying that he doesn't want to play southerners or people from the Black Country because he didn't like them - would that be acceptable?

It's should be part of his job - you can't pick and choose. The FA should grow a pair and stop being doormats.