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23 winning responses to the fury over the colourful St George’s Cross on Nike’s new England football shirt

John Plunkett. Updated March 22nd, 2024

As you can’t possibly failed to have noticed by now, there’s a New England national football shirt and manufacturer Nike thought they’d have a little fun – a ‘playful update’ to be exact – with the St George’s Cross.

And it’s fair to say it hasn’t gone down entirely well.

We wrote on Thursday about how it had a certain sort of football fan frothing at the mouth, and it’s a bandwagon that politicians of all colours – not unlike the new St George’s Cross – been happy to jump on.

The Football Association defended the design and said it in fact referenced the history of the team all the way back to 1966, don’t you know.

But the debate shows no sign of going away, with the national team playing a friendly against Brazil on Saturday.

Would be the perfect time for Kate Middleton to return to public life in the royal box, we reckon.

But while we wait with baited breath to find out who blinks first, here are our favourite things people are saying about it right now.

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