The Football Shirt Flag Hoo Ha

[tomus42]

It's being reported as if Nike just came up with this and foisted it on the England team as a surprise.

Surely this would have been signed off by the football authorities well in advance. Why aren't they being asked about it?

[Mozz71]

Lot of hot air over nothing. It's a bloody shirt, does anyone other that the professionally anti-woke really care?

[nicebloke1]

Very true, but I guess there's millions of pounds involved somewhere along the line.

[bhg481]

Wouldn't it be nice if we had an English company manufacture the England football strip.

[Redhelen72]

Half the time you can't see the collar anyway!!

I heard someone say it's defacing the flag! 
what a load of anti woke rubbish!

[scorpiojo]

£85??? 

[fender62]

maybe it's a nike ruse to create controversy, it's on the news after all, creates interest.. boosts sales, in the end it does not matter, woke want to water down patriotism and everything england.. diversity is out strength, white devil slave masters and all that nonsense.

[Arksided]

Imagine if someone had changed the Color's of the US flag, they wouldn't f## dare

[New Judge]

"Imagine if someone had changed the Color's of the US flag, they wouldn't f## dare"

I was just about to post along exactly the same lines, arkey. But it needn't be limited to the Star Spangled Banner. I cannot imagine any nation being happy to see their national flag misrepresented on their football team's shirts.

I was driving this afternoon and was listening to Dopey Sheila Fogerty on LBC, who was discussing the matter with her callers. SF said that she had some cushions in her home which were in the design on the Union Flag but which were in shades of green and cream instead of red, white and blue. She asked if that presented a similar problem. What the silly woman did not seem to understand was that her green & cream flags did not adorn the shirts of the country's football team.

Has anybody seen the flag of any other country presented in a prominent position, but misrepresented perhaps in colour or shape? What are Nike setting out to demonstrate with this nonsense?

[naomi24]

I care - and I'm anti-woke too - but not in a professional capacity.  It matters.

[tomus42]

//What are Nike setting out to demonstrate with this nonsense?//

This is the kind of question I don't understand. It's not Nike is it. They're just the manufacturers. They would presumably have presented a number of designs, and the England representatives obviously went 'yes, we'll take that one with the purple and green flag thanks'.

[naomi24]

You're right tomus.  Nike don't decide what the players wear.  The design must have been approved by the governing body.

[retrocop]

Starmer, as a self confessed footie fanatic, stated the England flag should not be tampered with.

It wasn't that long ago that anyone sporting the cross of St George was a knuckle dragging, swivel eyed, card carrying BNP little Englander by Emily Thornberry. Remember the white van man?

[Khandro]

Disgusting and arrogant. I see the AB, 'so what?'  half-wits  are out in force. 🙄

[Mozz71]

Not caring about a cross on the back of a collar on a football shirt doesn't make me or anyone else a "half-wit" Khandro. Getting oneself into a mouth-frothing rage about said shirt might well do though.

 

The fact a shirt costs over £100 to buy is a topic far worthier of anger.

[Peter Pedant]

I dont think it is a football authority thing

[DTCwordfan]

A Union Flag inred, purple, blue or yellow with green and silver spots, at over £80, I for one, will not be buying it - at £125 for the 'authentic' lightweight version, that is a complete rip-off. 

And what a waste of hot air over it......

 

[Peter Pedant]

I imagine they said it was not a flag but a motif ( thatcher) and taking OFF the3 cross of st George wd increase sales

[Deskdiary]

Those who don't mind doesn't make them half-wits Mozz, but equally those that do mind doesn't make them "...professionally anti-woke...".

[DTCwordfan]

Rubbish, the Welsh, Irish and Scots et al. aren't going to rush out and buy it just because the cross is now off it.

[Redhelen72]

2012 olympics the flags colour was changed 

pre 2010 Umbro changed the colour of the flag several times