New Nike England shirt

[Clarke B]

Joey Barton is apoplectic about it too.

Double bonus !

 

[pastiesforlife]

I genuinely don’t understand why they’ve changed the flag, what exactly are they trying to achieve? It doesn’t signify anything so just seems like someone at Nike doesn’t like the St George’s Cross.

The flag has been changed to represent the colours of the training kit England had for the 1966 World Cup(according to Nike).

I always thought that the tracksuits were plain royal blue, but then again we only had a black and white tv.

 

[Since I Was 33]

What I find most annoying about this very expensive shirt is that it will be bought in vast numbers by mug punters happy to pay rip-off prices. Happens all the time

 

[Clarke B]

What I find most annoying about this very expensive shirt is that it will be bought in vast numbers by mug punters happy to pay rip-off prices. Happens all the time

Least England kits are durable...I've still got shirts from 15 years ago which are still in good nick. Unlike my £50 Argyle home top this year - the puma logo started peeling off after two months......

 

[Quinny]

I've got no problem with it whatsoever. It doesn't impact me.

Hundreds of football fans up and down the country vandalise the flag with writing, logos and changing the colours to create their own flags that they take to games and no-one ever seems to have a problem with that.

Pretty much this: there are plenty of Argyle daubed St George Cross flags, or all-green Union Jacks.

I'd wager that if ... if, mind ... the cross on the new shirt was a different design and didn't look a little bit, you know, LGBT, then there wouldn't be half the pearl-clutching as there is at the moment.

 

[IJN]

Pretty much this: there are plenty of Argyle daubed St George Cross flags, or all-green Union Jacks.

I'd wager that if ... if, mind ... the cross on the new shirt was a different design and didn't look a little bit, you know, LGBT, then there wouldn't be half the pearl-clutching as there is at the moment.

I certainly did see anything to do with LGBT, I just saw a daft cross which represents nothing.

 

[Rush Goalie]

I think it's fine to not like what Nike have done with the cross. Personally think it looks a bit rubbish.

What I object to is the tub-thumping and the appropriation of it by idiots like Lee Anderson to drive an agenda.

 

[Quinny]

I certainly did see anything to do with LGBT, I just saw a daft cross which represents nothing.

I didn't either, but there are those on the interweb who certainly did see it that way. You know, the usual protagonists (although they're probably just pandering to a targetted audience):

https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1771105038154240241

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1770950237835743504

etc etc

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

Well as for Fox and Barton, when you're professionally dependent on becoming outraged you can spot offence anywhere, I guess.

 

[djg145]

Not one penny of my money will go anywhere near the FA. Absolutely ridiculous price, what normal person would even contemplate buying one. Can you imagine being the father/mother of young children wanting these shirts.
The St George's flag is NOT for changing.
I doubt very much that the children in the sweat shops of the far east have had a pay rise.

 

[Quinny]

Well as for Fox and Barton, when you're professionally dependent on becoming outraged you can spot offence anywhere, I guess.

Valid.

 

[Lundan Cabbie]

For me, the England (football) flag is The Three Lions. The FA is a private entity, has it's own branding and is NOT a State organisation.

We now have the Prime Minister saying that national flags should not be tampered with. So where was Rishi or his predecessor in 2012 when the eyes of the World were upon London and our athletes were wearing these.....

 

[Argyleloyal]

Pretty much this: there are plenty of Argyle daubed St George Cross flags, or all-green Union Jacks.

I'd wager that if ... if, mind ... the cross on the new shirt was a different design and didn't look a little bit, you know, LGBT, then there wouldn't be half the pearl-clutching as there is at the moment.

I didn’t see it look like anything to do with LGBT

 

[Adam]

Quite like the new kits to be fair. The away kit especially.

Think the newer version of St George’s cross looks quite nice.

 

[Argyleloyal]

The flag has been changed to represent the colours of the training kit England had for the 1966 World Cup(according to Nike).

I always thought that the tracksuits were plain royal blue, but then again we only had a black and white tv.

If that is the case, why didn’t they just do what they’ve done on the away shirt and have the colours on the side of the shirt?