I'm not all Gammon about but if you start changing colours and excluding parts of a flag it's not really the flag anymore is it? It's just two intersecting lines of different colours.
Do England have that flag on their shirts usually? I genuinely don’t know ... in most sane countries, it would be fine and people would treat a tiny part of the design of their nation’s football kit with the due amount of thought, attention & debate (ie none). You know here, we’re in for a week or more of media nonsense about ‘woke’ flags, inclusivity, erasing history and not fighting two World Wars for this bollocks.
I'm not sure other countries would be ok with it really.
Would you take the Brazilian flag and ditch the green outer part and make the yellow bit pink?
Or take the French flag removed the white bit and make the blue bit orange?
It's just fucking dumb regardless of flag shaggers.
England kit did a similar thing in like 2010 but of course, today we have the Woke Mind Virus trying to make sure yous get dumped out at first opportunity. Shocking from the lefties.
Not long now til every top will just be a pic of Captain Tom in heaven with the angles and "caught a few today didn't I??" and the laughing face and fishing rod emoji on the back
Anyway, flag-gate rumbles on with this all-timer of a whopper from Henry Winter, the head football writer at the Times
A couple things. Desecration?? Ahahahahahaha, fucking hell. You're a journalist mate, maybe do some work before reaching that point. Like, I dunno, read the attached press release from Nike when they unveiled their new range of national team kits this week. The one that talks about the actual theme being taking national colours and subverting them through modern design giving a blend of old and new. Proper business wordsoup that accompanies any shirt release for the last, I dunno, thirty years? Maybe you'll get clues there bro, I dunno.
Laughing at the prospect of Nike getting time out of international training by the FA to sit them all down in a room and consult them on a shirt design. Hahahaha what?
Also, I have to point out that the seperate point about the price of the kit is a fallacy. A moot point. For as long as I can remember, Nike and most other football kit makers, always offer the general standard top, then a "pro" version, with better materials, it actually being the one the professionals wear out on the pitch. Back in the mid 2000s, you'd only ever get the pro versions as part of a special release, typically in its own presentation box or something. These days, I'm guessing as people chase more 'luxury' items combined with the football shirt=FASHUN streetwear ideology, it's a helluva lot easier to get pro editions. One hundred and twenty quid is the going rate for a pro top. It is not the standard normal top that's been sold to fans in the lower price range for decades. People in this instance have just seen the price for the pro one and went "omg that's scandalous" and conflated it as being the price. It is not. These tiers have been prevalent in shirt sales for years and years, same with boots. So please jump off that particular point.
This is all funny to me until I remember my own personal outrage when gers tops would be released and the badge wasn't embroidered. Ahem. I'll get my coat.