Southgate would never but for me that should be England’s midfield 3 in the opening Euros game
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For me it’s Trent-Rice-Bellingham.
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Fuck me, £124 for a white t-shirt with a badge on it.
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Whats the point of a £5 difference for kids at those figures.
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Can’t get myself to admire our England MT midfield with that dweeb managing it.
Rice, Mainoo, Trent, Bellingham, Palmer, Foden. Please do not leave a generation of midfielders like this in the hands of Southgate.
Haven’t even mentioned Eze, Mount and Maddison.
I find it weird that Nike would even propose an “updated” St George’s Cross, and even stranger that the FA would go along with it.
I cant find a more complete explanation, all I’ve seen is tweets by Nike launching the kit saying it is meant to “unite and inspire”. Unite who, and how? And what do the colours even represent?
Did they not think any of this might require an explanation?
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Usually they release some explanation about any tweaks or details in the kit. Sometimes the USSF will put it out as a video so maybe the FA is going to do the same?
It looks nice imo and anything to make Farage upset is a good thing in my book.
To my untrained eye, those colours are the bisexual pride colours
Edit: confirmed
It’s a bit odd that there hasn’t been an explanation to go with it but nice if it’s to increase representation of bisexual people.
Bisexuals don’t always have the easiest time in the LGBT community and they aren’t always treated with the same “respect” as homosexual people.
Just a cross with some tweaked colours, doing nobody any harm and wouldn’t have even noticed but for the outrage.
I get their point about this being unnecessary BS but so is moaning about it tbh.
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It doesn’t really bother me in the sense of them changing the flag on the kit but I’m not a fan of massive corporations who exploit people in sweatshops trying to take any sort of moral stance on anything while the above practices continue. Just make the kits and shut the fuck up cunts.
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Changing a national flag for any reason is disrespectful in my opinion - flags have history and meaning. It isn’t Nike’s fault though. The FA agreeing to changing it is where it becomes odd. If anything, change the colours of the away shirt - not the flag.
False equivalence, but if Adidas decided to change the Arsenal cannon to be more inclusive, let’s just say of a player taking a knee, I’d be thinking what the fuck?
Makes no odds to me on a personal level though - haven’t worn an England shirt since 1996. Had the all grey kit. I was at Primary School in fairness
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I would give my opinion but I didn’t even know the England kit had St. George’s Cross on the collar, did the other kits have that? Pretty sure those collarless monstrosities didn’t and the red one with the collar didn’t either (I think?).
Didn’t England have a really sweet Umbro shirt a few years ago with like a hundred different color crosses on it? I think they only wore it once maybe?
Possibly. I’ve only been an England fan again for the last three tournaments.
If that is the case, where various coloured flags were on an England shirt - it stinks!
Think I need to drop following the Jamaica national team though. Have given up sleep to watch us score an own goal in the last seconds of time added on and then concede two in extra time.
The CONCACAF game right? Ugly ending lol.
Nearly beating Canada and U.S.A in the same tournament as a broke arse nation would’ve been incredible.
Horrible end to the match! Game management is severely lacking. We didn’t have a lot of the Premier League players and Leon Bailey has been having his diva moment.
Mexico are clearly the best team in North America, but I don’t think there is much to seperate Canada, Jamaica and the US of A.
I wouldnt say confirmed, it doesn’t match the bisexual flag. It’s close, and it’s closer to matching the bi flag than trans flag or anything else I can think of, but they’re still different.
I’m not at all mad about it, I don’t care, but I really am totally baffled at the lack of explanation about what the fuck that flag is meant to mean.
Apparently looking at the articles angry about it Nike says it’s meant to be inspired to the 1966 training kit. Which I had a look at it and ehhhh seems a big reach to me lol. Pretty bad attempt at ‘inspiration’ if you take their word for it.
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