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Flag feedback accentuates why we win nothing
Who approved so plenty of human beings would recover so red encountered spitting insane at a little logo on the rear neck of a football t shirt?
And they call abandoned leaning human beings snows.
First of all why you’re inflamed around “the desecration of our national flag” is exceptionally perplexing provided that at every indifferent England video game there are hundreds of desecrated England flags lugged by enthusiasts via names written on them, the colour switched as well as so on. I don’t ever before recall any enormity around the desecration of the flag then.
I’m observances without words by the enormity, as I’m sure Nike is as soon as they explore a blue st George’s cross via “Gateshead” written on it as well as puzzlement – what did we swipe on wrong?
The indifferent point I can reckon is that it owns a little minuscule of colour in it which if you’re homophobic as well as partially blind aesthetics a minuscule minuscule LGBT themed. Outdoor of that I observances don’t realise the craze.
Hefty quantities of England shirts have switched as well as messed around via the flag. A previous umbro t shirt possessed lots of blue st George’s cross almost everywhere the shoulders, zero enormity.
Now if they possessed switched the flag on the chest I can realise it provided that that observances is the official layout of the flag yet a little chunk of clip art on the ago? Y’all must have super simplified resides if that’s what supplies you inflamed.
Potentially it’s a fulcra ruse by the “elites” to withhold England enthusiasts out of football by administering the t shirt something the don’t want to wear as well as so England will possibly have less maintain at the upcoming tournament?
By the means England can have the highest t shirt in history that in reality cures cancer cells, worn by a subordinate via actual super heroes as well as they will possibly still win f*ck all. The fanatic enormity is in reality kind of reflective of why England will possibly never win anything – impoverished, disparaging means of distrusting which crumbles at also little adversity.
Lee
Bring on the gay Smarties
So, listed under we go once again, the Society Combats, part 50,055. Presumably, some media electric outlets (the usual suspects, Talksport. The S*n, Talk TV, et al) are ‘disappointed’, that’s correct ‘OUTRAGED’ as well as ‘DISGUSTED’ at a coloured cross on the ago of a football t shirt. Now, there are presently a stack of things going on in the earth which I would reckon it would be opportune to utilization the stipulation ‘disappointed’ as well as ‘ashamed’, yet I don’t reckon a coloured cross on the ago of a football t shirt is one.
We realise how this works, media electric outlets glancing for click tempt as well as some flawlessly undue woe that does not in anyhow brunt on users resides, yet forms a convenient culture battles woe that distracts from those things that swipe on brunt on your resides. So the usual lines are trotted out, ‘woke brigade’ ‘diversity’ ‘gay agenda’ as well as the inevitable ‘you can’t also say the word England anymore’ being rolled out by next off week.
The coloured cross (‘can’t also say coloured anymore provided that of the woke figure’, as well as so on) is of relevance, you can guidance it, you can abhor it, that’s it, it approaches nothing, it’s a exceptionally pricey point of polyester garments, that is literally it.
And the disparate previous gamers as well as technicians being rolled out as well as aphorism how a stack pride they possessed wearing the t shirt, well, other than 1966, England have won nothing as well as are trash at international tournaments, so the cross didn’t make any disagreement did it, everything colour it is.
By next off week the exceptionally same conversing heads will possibly footfall on to the next off culture war topic of the day, probably Gay Smarties, as well as everybody can pretend to be disappointed around that.
Pardeep (that is my actual tag, I’m not being woke)
This is England ’24
This is England. Yet, why?
The recent outcry around the cross on the ago of the neoteric England approach got me distrusting around an LBC customer around a year or 2 previously aphorism to David Lammy “you’ll never be English” in such a tone as well as cadence that administered me so insane I can have spit on my staying elbowroom floor. She proudly acted to have traced her origins ago to the Anglo-Saxons. Wonderful. Sweet for her. I situation she can have briefed us wherein Saxony was, yet. I pinpoint as English provided that I was birthed as well as raised in England. And, true to English legacy, I can indifferent talk English. Yet, guidance plenty of millennial Londoners, I am the boy of immigrants. I have zero interpreted English heritage. Yet, I still maintain England. In reality, if you revert to the Victorian period I have Scottish genealogy. Yet, I’ve never consistent Scotland. I’m English, as well as that merely wouldn’t swipe on.
So, what is English? Is the cross of St.George English? Predominantly, that was pocketed from a community in Italy. And George was a guy from south east Europe. Ok, well, I love blaring out Three Lions as soon as England are playing in tournaments (as well as the girls win them). Oh, defer, lions are from Africa. Predominantly, they’re not also lions on the badge. They’re leopards (in addition from Africa). It’s merely that medieval instrumentalists were utter dogsh*t. I guess the cross is a nice icon of this rural’s faith in that guy who got tortured direct the Eastern/African outskirt 2000 years previously. Yet, I puzzlement how plenty of England enthusiasts in reality read the Bible. In reality, I situation plenty of England enthusiasts who sing God Preserve the Son of Cousin-F***ers in the past strengthens in reality think in a god.
So, why the frustrate? Why are politicians thieving a peek at in? What injury owns in reality been used? I’m not aphorism human beings HAVE to guidance the multicoloured cross. Yet, isn’t the furore a footfall of something darker? A deep-seated disgust towards “the other” who is equalizing their dear green as well as alluring land? Of course, some human beings purely reckon it aesthetics shit. Alright. Whatever. Yet, taxi vehicle driver Joe in Stirling aphorism “human beings died for that flag thousands of years previously” isn’t unborn from a area of national pride so a stack as patriotic proneness, not to reference sheer unfamiliarity. And, zero, I didn’t make that bid up. It was a 5 Live customer.
And all this hullabaloo owns arisen throughout a week as soon as the a stack of vivid subconscious of Britain have been railing against a guy for declining the approach to wear the three lions (or leopards, or everything). Oh, defer. Sorry, I opined foolish c**ts guidance Jamie O’Hara can’t accept that Benjamin White didn’t guidance how that service provider belittled him in front of everybody in Qatar as soon as he’s in reality smart as well as talented as well as difficult-massaging sufficient to go from being a nice centre ago to an overlapping full ago to an inverted full ago (something also Tierney couldn’t situate out). I’m disappointed none of these monkey-brained men (zero offense to monkeys) have termed for him to be inoculation at sunrise.
And so, the cross kinda aesthetics foolish. Users’s frustrate over it is foolish. The majority of human beings in England are foolish. Potentially our flag must merely be a enormous dunce cap.
Simon, Norf London Gooner
Nicely tinkered, Nike
I’d guidance to assignment an all all-natural confiscate on the entirety multi-coloured St George’s Cross on the England approach, which I reckon the first 2 access in this early morning’s Mailbox confirm.
I first cottoned on to this a couple of Christmases previously; Sainsbury’s possessed a exceptionally indifferent, cheap to make, common Christmas advert around father’s sauce. It was exclusively as well as utterly featureless other than that, in the wake of George Floyd, BLM as well as so on, it was a black family members. Of course, there was a backlash from the usual brigade. After that there was a backlash to the backlash from the other usual suspects. After that a backlash to the backlash to the backlash from the first team as well as on as well as on it went. Unanimously the while, this third-rate minuscule advert that expenditure rather minuscule to make was retrieving supplemental as well as supplemental attention, supplemental panoramas as well as supplemental involvement.
Now, call me downhearted, yet I reckon it’s all merely advertising as well as advertising as well as advertising. We’ve been staying in this enormity period long sufficient for the advertising as well as advertising as well as advertising departments of company suppliers to be smart sufficient to harness its power. If you’re in the Nike advertising as well as advertising as well as advertising division, your England approach launch owns merely been commented on by the Prime Minister as well as the leader of the opposition, whom is probable to be Prime Minister in the past the year is out. I’d be chalking that up as a preposterous win.
So next off time this kind of nonsense stands out up, merely withhold in mind that the digital earth is in reality merely the attention economy. If you merely neglect it, these things will possibly note less as well as less. Your enormity is merely involvement as well as it’s doing their advertising as well as advertising as well as advertising for them.
Lewis, Headdress Means (the exceptionally same applies to the filter of Piers Morgan. The remark is all that confusions, not the content)
Poisonous relationship
The point around nationalism is its a one sided relationship. You can love your rural yet your rural plainly doesn’t love you ago as well as outdoor of international level battles the indifferent point your rural ever before in reality wants from you is tax obligations. To linger in such relationships the subject needs to rationalise their restated devotion to the acquaintance by predicting approaches in which their acquaintance needs them.
With nationalism this can median ‘My rural needs to be safeguarded at all rates’ yet once again other than intrusion by a international army this is not true. So the subject invents eventualities in which they can protect their rural to really feel contentment as well as exonerate their nationalism. This is how we run out up via human beings retrieving disappointed provided that a 5cm red cross on the ago of football t shirt presently owns a minuscule of blue as well as pink on it. It’s stupid yet human beings are scary.
My recommendations would be to run out the relationship, or you realise, don’t acquire the t shirt.
Dave, Manchester
Tabs for Nike
I don’t treatment around the playful flag on the ago (I’m sure there will possibly be sufficient taxi lorry catalysts via “relevant” flag sticking out of the tops of their auto to accordingly St Georgify the rural via the “correct” colours come June), yet I couldn’t disagree via Dave Tickner supplemental around his stomaching of that neoteric England t shirt; that apprehend it is disastrous! From specific angles, aesthetics guidance a filter of fifty percent-put-in neckerchief.
I grew up tailing Cantona strut approximately the Carling (not the Barclays in them days) via his upturned apprehend as well as, yet not a Unified fanatic, he sifted so goddamned cool, that I’ve habitually possessed a soft area for the full detained jacket.
Yet if you’re not attending go down that presently instead passe stylistic route, then either a spick-as well as-expectancy v-neck or a spheric neck. Not this midway residence plague.
Google “US Males’s soccer approach 2013”. Nike have merely messed around via the piping on a 10 year ratty USA approach as well as peddled it to us as a neoteric model. If we’re not meticulous, we’re on a course to the subordinate unborn to be referred to as the EMNST.
Agitated you’ve wound that write-up off at 21st century as 1998 as well as 2000 were penalty initiatives, too. I was never marketed on the Euro 96 approach, in spite of fond memories of the tournament. The turquoisey tabs habitually thumbed a minuscule wrong.
Honourable reference to the 1994 approach, which however never got a tournament barbecue. Always sweetheart the exclusively needless, dinky three-lions badge screened correct into the front of the apprehend merely inches from the actual badge, which for some justification administered me foresee the minuscule internal mouth of the xenomorph from Aliens. And 1990’s infinite model, Gazza’s deviates, Nessum Dorma, boys in the park, hmm, isn’t it? Superb.
Misgiving: Has there also been a worse England t shirt than 1982?
Chris Bridgeman, Kingston upon Thames
Kit offender activity
For all the ****-********, ****-*******, ********, er, nonsense that owns been written around the (ahem) apprehend nicety (as well as price, as well as colour, as well as, as well as, as well as….), I personally was supplemental purged around the disagreement in attribute of the Wholehearted difference of England’s Away t shirt (pretty damn nice imo) as well as the Arena difference (meticulously underwhelming in comparison / largely).
That was until I saw the disagreement in the Netherlands’ approach. The Wholehearted one is mint – the red stripes, the commendable aesthetics, the details, engrossing). And then there’s zero exertion, stock b***h, it’s orange what else confusions, Suit difference – ugh, what a waste.
Dave, Buckinghamshire (Laughing at Lee Anderson prattling on whilst he himself puts on an England t shirt which owns a decorative St George’s flag on it. (A t shirt that is ratty sufficient to mandate, BTW))
Disclaim Kane out
Would possibly guidance to share via you the pleasing England subordinate for the euros, some can say there’s some responsive to question recourses in there, one exceptionally enormous one. Yet who doesn’t love a minuscule of conflict.
So listed under is my mildly responsive to question yet actual exceptionally nice England XI
Goalkeeper – Jordan Pickford, makes it possible for overture without conflict, yet I reckon keeper is our weakest position. Are we sure Allison or Martinez aren’t English.
Proper Ago – Kyle Walker, difficult in between walker as well as trippier listed under yet walker edges it.
Main def – John Rocks, owns to be in reality as well as must be captain from the ago.
Main def – Ezri Konsa, first minuscule of conflict, in between him as well as Branthwaite for me, yet Villa are 4th in the league as well as he hardly ever before places a foot wrong as well as can lug the spheric out. Yet would in addition be cheery via Branthwaite.
Taken off ago – Ben Chilwell, once again not plenty of real recourses, Luke Shaw would be a ago-up yet I wouldn’t overture him.
Def Mid – Declan Rice, zero revelations listed under via mr sound
Main Mid – Jude Bellingham, once again zero revelations can you vacate him out.
Main Mid – Phil Foden, explore above Yet supplemental of a emission guise delivering out wide if termed for
Proper Forward – Bukayo Saka, kind for England as well as Tool kit once again cant vacate him out
Taken off Forward – Jack Grealish, 2nd time of conflict you can guidance or abhor him. Yet you cant rob he offers something assorted, as well as that disagreement can come in convenient, the other recourse is unpredictable Rashford as well as nobody yet Unified enthusiasts want that.
Centre Forward – Ollie Watkins, preserve the greatest conflict for last. Can you vacate captain Kane out. Indeed!, we realise Kane is vivid yet as soon as he owns tinkered in finals or semi finals what owns he won, hes missed supplemental pertinent fines than he owns won trophies. Time to position Watkins a chance, can explore from this period he can rating needs guidance Kane does, yet he is in addition joint pioneering assister in the league, as soon as you’ve got the attribute approximately we have in our assail, I would confiscate those assist all day.
Like I claimed a minuscule responsive to question yet im sure that subordinate would win. P.S. Most certainly no Maguire, Phillips or Henderson in sight, as well as all gamers are playing well (as soon as not wounded e.g. Grealish)
Anthony, Southampton
FFP FFS
Ian Watson asks “who decided that the PSR period must be the year up to June 30…?”. A minuscule reading (of the Athletic substantially) as well as you can situate that the rebuttal is…
Nottingham Woodland.
Yep, it seems that the nightclubs themselves kit the exact dates their accounting periods overture as well as run out. Wolves for instance, ending up their accounting period at the run out of Can. So you can’t in reality blame any guy yet Woodland for that noticeable anomaly of PSR. Weirdly Aston Villa have in addition picked to swipe on it the Woodland means.
Woodland’s defence of waiting to recover a much more explained price on Brennan Johnson was habitually a spurious one. If you’re scrabbling approximately for £40M a month in the past your recovers chummy then you’re already persuading the constraints of “sustainability”. For your entire undertakings to be based on your aptitude to sell your one marketable gamer is negligent as well as owns so plenty of confusions. What if the gamer avails a deliberating injury at the run out of the period? What if the gamer is arrested? What if the gamer doesn’t want to go (explore Frenkie de Jong). None of those things are specifically probable yet they all note. Woodland possessed every correct to sell Brennan Johnson for as a stack as they can. Yet they were stupid for it to recover to a position wherein it mattered.
And by picking the accounting period they have they supplied themselves the chance to address the impoverished actions they possessed administered in the early days of the window as well as then meticulously screwed their merit by not selling that gamer. And Woodland still ended up that transmit window via a net invest of direct sufficient £50M. What are they smoking cigarettes?
It’s straining that subordinates that come up to the Premier League situate it difficult to compete yet it’s not habitually the pod. Multiple (a stack of) of the subordinates that swipe on come up as well as stay up for any length of time swipe on so in a compliant manner. I’ve zero hunch what administered Woodland spunks so a stack cash cash cash money on so plenty of gamers. Like Lee alluded to, the supplemental eco-cordial recourse would’ve been to invest that cash cash cash money in infrastructure or the academy/girls’s subordinates.
One point I’ve got to say yet, them mantras is a perplex – we presently have a ailment wherein Everton as well as Woodland are attending recover junctures reduction in this FY for their misdemeanours last year, Everton are in addition retrieving a reduction from the year in the past as well as presently, Leicester are glaring down a junctures reduction from last year being used at some obscure day in the future as soon as they in reality take care of to counterargument to the Premier League. Render it make sense!
And on a last note, of the subordinates to be billed (or tested in Leicester’s pod) last period, one owns been founded on, 2 have taken care of transmit in the last 2 years. Whatever their gripes via the mantras (as well as I won’t recover correct into how the filter of Southampton as well as Leeds are sensation around this), they are some poorly run nightclubs.
Unified next off?
Cinder Metcalfe
Emission Kane!
Simply wanted to concur via Dave (PVFC — hope you didn’t have to sit via the Orient-Deportment Vale last week, what a snooze fest, worst video game I’ve witnessed at the O’s as well as that is aphorism something)
The Harry Kane Easter Island/Egg is a monstrosity. It is meeting. It feels guidance an April Fools kinda story.
Yet in addition a minuscule tragic, too. Harry is a pretty nice guy — I’m not a spurs fanatic, or a gooner, yet have immense venerate for him, as well as the dedication as well as difficult yards he’s plunked in to recover wherein he is.
Anyhow, allegedly the justification that Waltham Woodland Council shelter’t ranked it at Chingford station is that a wellness as well as safety as well as security confiscate an additional kind at located that rival enthusiasts — West Pork as well as Tool kit I suppose, founded on our area– would devastation it. I situate that a minuscule somber. I’m sure there would be Gooners sitting down on the church bench next off to it as well as alignment it some for a selfie, yet in reality raffle it less competent? C’mon. The other justification allegedly is that Train lorry catalysts can be puzzled by it as soon as they yank correct into the station. I median, seeing a giant delightful chocolate guy sitting on the unit would freak you out initially yet I’m sure that would create after a few times.
So c’mon WF, position us our Statuary.
Dan, Walthamstow, London.
Don’t write off Newcastle
I’ve merely been glancing via each subordinate’s sticking approximately PL fixtures, to aid approach my FPL wildcard. I was struck by how nice Newcastle fixtures are. Standoffish from a excursion to Archaic Trafford, they’re all galleries that Newcastle will possibly be favourites to win on an user basis. Sported this run-in, it wouldn’t astonish me if they make Europe next off period after all, especially if England recover the supplemental Winners’ League Place, administering 8th nice sufficient for Europe (which is a bloody joke, yet that’s an conversation for an additional day).
At the other run out of the scale, Brighton’s sticking approximately fixtures are tasteless. They can readily depreciate out of the top fifty percent entirely. This would zero situation please F365, as you’ll be able to withhold trotting out your neoteric favourite stat around “5 wins in 20 galleries” or everything it is presently.
Lauro (we never wanted Anthony Gordon as well as his hellish haircut anyhow), KFC
Likely Winners League
This owns nothing to swipe on via anything yet it’s merely a random believed.
Next off period’s Winners League is the first one via the expanded layout, apparently opined to let the enormous boys have supplemental odds of qualifying (therefore the second adapters for the ideal performing leagues).
And yet, as it stands, there are quite plenty of confidential sides throughout Europe that are kit to certify for Europe’s greatest nightclub fighters. Which probably undermines UEFA’s needs slightly.
Based on present standings, we have the obeying subordinates that are inhabiting adapters that will possibly certify them for the Winners League team stage:
Aston Villa (England)
Girona (Spain)
Stuttgart (Germany) – Along via not likely winners-elect Bayer Leverkusen
Bologna (Italy)
Brest (France) – Currently 2nd behind PSG (put off laughing at the ago)
Matrimony Saint-Gilloise (Belgium) – Tinkering 2nd division football as fresh as 2021
What a time to be active. I hope they all go as well as frustrate the enormous boys as well as make a mockery of UEFA.
Ben
Liverpool innovation
Gussy: In Can 2022 the period ended:
Liverpool were in 2nd position.
Owned a +68 gd.
In March 2024:
Liverpool are in 2nd position.
Have a +39 gd. (via 10 galleries to go)
Utd as well as Liverpool both have 1 league mug in that time period.
Sustenance for believed.
Davey, Cork
Arbitrary classics
Dave from South Wales stired up a elaboration in the Mailbox this early morning around sweetheart memories from random galleries we’ve remarked. While he solved the 2015 AFC Eastern Cup Last, my standout minute hails from the obeying tournament in 2019. The clash in between Qatar as well as faves Japan in the last abandoned an sustaining mark. Qatar, interpreted underdogs, defied the odds by reaching the last without conceding a objective, a fabulous task for a subordinate that possessed never proceeded past the quarter-finals in the past.
The 2019 last was a pageantry, via 2 needs stomaching out as in reality earth-course. Almoez Ali’s opener was a sport of hefty capability as well as athleticism. Regulating a cross via his abandoned foot, flicking it up via his correct, as well as implementing an overhead kick correct into the underpinning side was a minute of sheer radiance. Likewise, Abdulaziz Hatem’s strike from outdoor the box, spotting the top side via accuracy, was a objective deserving of any stress reel.
Almoez Ali not indifferent safeguarded the Eastern Cup for Qatar yet in addition inscribed his tag in the record recovers by besting Ali Daei’s objective-racking up record in the tournament via an fabulous tally of 9 needs. Regardless of his stellar capability, it remains dazzling that zero European subordinate took a chance on him obeying the tournament, after all how plenty of times does a gamer recover a enormous footfall after an fabulous verifying at a tournament, that is a list in itself.
The Admin @ At The Footway Sheathing
Valuable-ish reading
Not also fifty percent means via the international reprieve as well as I’m flagging. Thank you. Thank you.
If any guy’s super bored then accord up Tim Marshall’s ‘Well worth Dying For – The Power as well as Politics of Flags’. An fabulous read, although not his ideal job. ‘Prisoners of Location’ as well as ‘The Power of Location’ are fabulous.
Appearances guidance also Leon Bailey can’t be troubled via the international reprieve.
Gary AVFC, Oxford
