England shirt garbage

[Trickytreesreds]

Well done Starmer, call it out.
This is exactly the sort of garbage that winds folks up.
How many other countries flags have been defaced like this?
Try doing it with the jocks or Irish/Welsh flags and see what happens.
The flag of St George is seen as an object to be scorned in some folks eyes.
Perhaps Thornberry works for Nike now?

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-...cross-13099453

[SithHappens]

The price is offensive.

That is all.

[Geoff Parkstone]

But is it Nikes fault? Whoever commissioned them to design the shirts (the FA I guess) would have had to sign off on it. They could have easily said "no".

I won't be wasting 130 on it anyway

Would be interesting to see the response if they had tried to switch the red, white and blue of the stars and stripes to o turquoise, orange and green

[SithHappens]

Suppose we could have had a picture of Princess Kate wearing one then we would be well and truly done for.

[Trickytreesreds]

But is it Nikes fault? Whoever commissioned them to design the shirts (the FA I guess) would have had to sign off on it. They could have easily said "no".

I won't be wasting 130 on it anyway

Would be interesting to see the response if they had tried to switch the red, white and blue of the stars and stripes to o turquoise, orange and green

Nike has called it "a playful update"?

WTF is that supposed to mean?
Is it ok to "play" with anyones national flag?
If Nike did this, then the FA should have rejected it full stop. Which makes me wonder, which woke individual was behind this decision inside the FA?
Yet another example of someones invidual feelings deciding whats right for all of us.
You'd think they'd learn after the likes of the Bud Light fiasco.

https://news.sky.com/story/nike-engl...cross-13099750

[swaledale]

Well done Starmer, call it out.
This is exactly the sort of garbage that winds folks up.
How many other countries flags have been defaced like this?
Try doing it with the jocks or Irish/Welsh flags and see what happens.
The flag of St George is seen as an object to be scorned in some folks eyes.
Perhaps Thornberry works for Nike now?

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-...cross-13099453

Actually he is a tw@t for trying to appeal to the faux outrage of the gammons on this, not a smart move IMO.

I've been quietly amused by the gammon losing their **** over a design on a football shirt, I mean its not as if it hasn't been done before in other England kits, but I guess gammons memories don't go back very far!! Get a ****inglife! Its a design on a flippin football shirt not the reworking of a national flag.

The flag of St George, which was actually the flag of Genoa, adopted by the English so that they could gain protection from pirates at sea.

Oh and St George, who wasn't English (possibly of Greek and Palestinian descent and never set foot in England. Indeed it is very likely today that you and the other gammons would in fact be demanding the repatriation of anyone of his heritage who dared to set foot on English soil.

So ****ing funny I've nearly wet myself!!

[swaledale]

But is it Nikes fault? Whoever commissioned them to design the shirts (the FA I guess) would have had to sign off on it. They could have easily said "no".

I won't be wasting 130 on it anyway

Would be interesting to see the response if they had tried to switch the red, white and blue of the stars and stripes to o turquoise, orange and green

Have a look back through some other England football kits the flag and its colours have been changed many times before. Not you, but those tw@ts with such sad lives that they have nothing better to do than complain about a design on a football shirt are just demonstrating a lack of awareness here.

[swaledale]

Nike has called it "a playful update"?

WTF is that supposed to mean?
Is it ok to "play" with anyones national flag?
If Nike did this, then the FA should have rejected it full stop. Which makes me wonder, which woke individual was behind this decision inside the FA?
Yet another example of someones invidual feelings deciding whats right for all of us.
You'd think they'd learn after the likes of the Bud Light fiasco.

https://news.sky.com/story/nike-engl...cross-13099750

When you do a little research and find out how many other times the flag has been altered on England football shirts, your going to feel even more stupid than you normally do.

[SithHappens]

Applauds Swale. I just don't get it. Well actually I do. Had nothing been said people would have been happy spending a crazy amount of money on these shirts but because someone has kicked off then it's different.

**** me.

[Andy_Faber]

IMO its a ******* dropped by Nike and The England hierarchy, I'd expect nothing less from the latter. Its not like its the first time though, and I still have an official fan shirt from 2002 (which WAS withdrawn, but a lot less fuss made) which had a very clear cross of St George but the design also had on it what I imagine was meant to be the dragon he slayed, but which some bright spark had lifted at random from clipart and selected the dragon off the WELSH flag.