Gareth Southgate on England kit row: Flag cannot be called St George’s Cross
If it’s not red on whiite, centrered, then it’s not St George. There are all sorts of other colours one can have for a flag, all sorts of other colours for a cross on a flag. But they do all tend to be the cross of sumeone else rather than St George.
That well know martyr St Tatchellus.
I will never believe they didn’t anticipate the backlash.
Moreover what about the German flag that seems embroidered into the cross on the away kit ?
And why purple ?
The German away kit is pink apparently.
One of their old away kits was the same as QPR’s.
Will this nonsense never end ?
Little known fact. St Mohammed’s flag is a black cross on a black background.
I think the plan is to get us to the point where we’re boycotting so many companies we won’t be able to buy anything at all.
Surely you are a multicultural society sufficiently at peace with yourselves to accept a Patron saint Georg/Georges/Georgios/Jorge.Gyorgi/etc?
No?
Right then, you racist flag-shaggers, expect a few days of abuse from us more enlightened folk and we’ll try again later with something else.
Must admit I’d simply use the swastika and give everyone the finger.
Usually at this point the Guardian points out that St George was a Turk. Which means you can be confident he wasn’t.
Usually at this point the Guardian points out that St George was a Turk. Which means you can be confident he wasn’t.
According to Wikipedia (stop laughing at the back), he was a Cappadocian Greek, which is modern day Anatola in Turkey.
So he was Greek.
Nothing whatsoever to do with certain ethnicities, along with their guardianista catamites in the fa, coming over all funny at the mere thought of the dreaded crusader emblem (which in response to the imminent election is temporarily being championed by Emily Thornberry. Nearly as unthinkable as lighting the Wembley arch in blue and white.
Using the bisexual pride flag colour scheme was a particularly playful (in their own words) touch by Nike.
Using the bisexual pride flag colour scheme was a particularly playful (in their own words) touch by Nike.
And of course there’s the doubts about the masculinity of the England players.
(That’s a meme would be great fun getting started.)
Yesterday’s Telegraph Piece on this subject helpfully included depictions of “flags” denoting various forms of alphanumeric deviance. An ardent vexillologist would be hard pressed to tell them apart and hence the need to piggy-back (forgive the unfortunate imagery) on more familiar insignia.
Bboy – big fuck off Maltese cross with “In Hoc Signo Vinces” as the motto.
Not for the football, for the Reconquista of Christendom.