Woke cross logo is an insult to England
i WAS appalled to read of the FA’s decision to change St george’s Cross to a multicolour emblem on the collar of the new England football shirts; and even more shocked at nike’s ridiculous selling price of £124.99. i hope fans boycott these awful shirts.
JOHN JOSEPHS, Halesowen, W. Mids. WHAT were they thinking? no to blue, no to purple and definitely no to £125. Mr s. H. BAILEY, eastbourne, e. sussex. IF NIKE have supplied a product that doesn’t comply with the order, they have to resupply at no extra cost.
DAVID GILBY, shaftesbury, Dorset. i AM incensed at nike’s attitude and disrespect towards MY national flag. JENNY DINGLEY, Princethorpe, Warks. MAYBE the powers-that-be can change the Three Lions to Three Blind Mice.
H. WOODs, Chilton, Co Durham.
HOW would nike feel if the Stars and Stripes was defaced like that?
M. MACLEOD, High Wycombe, Bucks. i Don’T blame nike for this debacle. it is the FA where heads should roll. They must have agreed to the change to boost their diversity credentials. GEORGE HATCHMAN, Cheshunt, Herts. NEXT to no objections from the team, it seems, and i was very disappointed to hear gareth Southgate say the row ‘isn’t high on my list of priorities’. P. MACKINTOSH, Darlington, Co Durham.
SOME enterprising firm should sell sew-on patches to cover this one up.
J. GUTTERIDGE, Reading, Berks.
FANS should just wear the old strip. M. BRYAN, shipston-on-stour, Warks. NIKE’S claim that this is a ‘playful update’ insults our intelligence. DAVID BROWN, Walsall, W. Mids.
WHY do we let a U.S. manufacturer make England football shirts anyway? CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, Colkirk, Norfolk.
WHAT authority does nike, based in oregon, have to fiddle with our flag? D. EDWARDS, leighton Buzzard, Beds. NO OTHER country would allow corruption of their national flag.
CLIFFORD HOPKINs, Frimley, surrey.
HOW happy would nike be if we changed their tick logo into a cross?
DAVID PENN, Watford, Herts. ACTUALLY, in 1966 the Union flag dominated at Wembley for the World Cup final, not the St george’s Cross.
IAN METCALFE, Perth, scotland. THE only purple and blue things in 1966 were nobby Stiles’s shins.
K. KNIGHT, Waltham Abbey, essex.
IT SHOULD be easy enough to sew over the cross with white cotton.
JACK STOYLES, Bradford, W. Yorks.
BOYCOTT the shirt and spend the money on a small family car instead.
STEVE USHER, Farnham, surrey.
NIKE has no plans to change the new England kit’s woke cross. Fine. Fans have no plans to buy the kit.
BRIAN BEST, High Wycombe, Bucks.
CAN you imagine the fury in Scotland if these numbskulls decided to change their blue cross to a red one?
D. BUCKLEY, Motcombe, Dorset.
NOT everyone will be upset about the new flag. i’m sure Chevrolet appreciates the free advertising.
l. STEVENS, Wilmslow, Cheshire.