New England kit for Euro '24

Oh my, mess with the St George’s flag at your peril Nike.
Now you’re going to have a few months of shirt burnings at all the far right get togethers and Simon Jordon calling you out for fiddling with national pride..

Or you can just look at it as a football shirt and stop acting like soft cunts.
 
TinFoilHat said:
I see the shirt has got the Gammonati spitting feathers.
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Why would they change the colours of the flag though, if it weren’t an attempt to make some unnecessary statement?

I’m not particularly arsed about what’s on the shirt and I’m not particularly arsed about what the England team does to be honest, but I don’t see a reason to change the colours of a flag unless it’s to make a statement which nobody is really asking for.

It’s simply a bit of tokenism from a large corporate so that it can feel better about itself, and it’s extremely tedious.
 
think it looks pretty nice, and i actually like the shorts, dont think they should be "playful" with any countries flag though,not sure how it is playful,or what its about really, if i did buy football shirts/kits then i wouldnt let the playful flag put me off but i dont buy football shirts not even city shirts, if people dont like it dont buy it.
 
Brewster's millions said:
Why would they change the colours of the flag though, if it weren’t an attempt to make some unnecessary statement?

I’m not particularly arsed about what’s on the shirt and I’m not particularly arsed about what the England team does to be honest, but I don’t see a reason to change the colours of a flag unless it’s to make a statement which nobody is really asking for.

It’s simply a bit of tokenism from a large corporate so that it can feel better about itself, and it’s extremely tedious.
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I actually agree that doing it in the first place is unnecessary and can only think the uproar would have been discussed by marketing and subsequently agreed it’s worth it for the exposure.
 
Brewster's millions said:
Why would they change the colours of the flag though, if it weren’t an attempt to make some unnecessary statement?

I’m not particularly arsed about what’s on the shirt and I’m not particularly arsed about what the England team does to be honest, but I don’t see a reason to change the colours of a flag unless it’s to make a statement which nobody is really asking for.

It’s simply a bit of tokenism from a large corporate so that it can feel better about itself, and it’s extremely tedious.
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tokenism for what though, its not a rainbow flag, i dont agree with changing the national flag, i dont mind if it had a meaning to it, i just dont get the colours.

i suppose they've done their jobs though, people are talking about it .
 
Sir peace frog said:
tokenism for what though, its not a rainbow flag, i dont agree with changing the national flag, i dont mind if it had a meaning to it, i just dont get the colours.

i suppose they've done their jobs though, people are talking about it .
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That's my thoughts

The colours don't seem to represent anything, it's not like it's the rainbow flag as you say.

Seems rather pointless/silly to change the colours of a flag, but at the same time people are getting upset about something pointless. Unless people are truly upset that's its not white and red.

My guess is it's people angling for a fight about "agendas" but have nothing to lean on because the chosen colours don't represent anything.
 
If I were cynical, I might be of the mind that Nike are playing the fans like a fiddle. They knew all too well what reaction this would get, they know what England fans are like, and they'd see that as free marketing... The ones complaining about "woke gone mad" and furiously retweeting it are just playing right into their hands. I don't see Nike as the champions of social justice they proclaim to be, they are a capitalist corporation trying to cynically maximise sales and this is how they choose to do it.

If they did do it for that reason, then you can't deny that it's worked out for them beautifully, hasn't it.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
If I were cynical, I might be of the mind that Nike are playing the fans like a fiddle. They knew all too well what reaction this would get, they know what England fans are like, and they'd see that as free marketing... The ones complaining about "woke gone mad" and furiously retweeting it are just playing right into their hands. I don't see Nike as the champions of social justice they proclaim to be, they are a capitalist corporation trying to cynically maximise sales and this is how they choose to do it.

If they did do it for that reason, then you can't deny that it's worked out for them beautifully, hasn't it.
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And nobody is talking about the real crime, which is that it costs £125.
 
Loving that new home shirt, isn't worth £85 though for the "stadium" version.

I will stick with my 90 and 96 retro shirt.
 
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