Stuart Pearce Is NOT Happy With 'Unrecognisable' St. George Flag On England's New Kit! 😡

Nike have been slammed over their new England kit. talkSPORT's Jim White, Simon Jordan and Stuart Pearce have their say!
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[@skracing_1805]

The FA are now changing the country name from England to Allcomersland.

[@ibrstellar1080]

The FA have to kneel to their WEF overloads.

[@EvilestGem]

Well, I'm from Ireland and I visited London recently and to go into parts of London to find strictly Arabic shops everywhere where it was street after street of Arabic shops, no English. I was absolutely stunned. To be in England and not understand the language, it was like being in a foreign country. Crazy. The way I see it, the indigenous people of England are abandoning London for the country and other areas away from major cities as they become more and more unrecognizable. It's happening here too in Ireland with Dublin feeling more like Asia and Africa with the odd tourist trap 'Irish' pub dotted about. Other than that it's rickshaws and foreign shops everywhere.

[@lovejoy3347]

@@EvilestGem It's the same up North, lad. Seldom do I hear anyone speaking English when i'm walking down a street or in a park.

[@PALWE]

@@lovejoy3347bloody foreners tekkint jobs !!!

[@robertcottam8824]

@@EvilestGem Bless you, poppet. I hope that, in time, you become reconciled with mankind. 🙏

[@Behold__Optic_Blast]

The Bud Light of football shirts. 😂 Good lord.

[@gdr1174]

The arrogant bunch who decided it was a good idea will never admit they were wrong

[@jtmmmm27]

They won't have to when the sales figures come in...

[@FambosYootos]

Ignorance is their greatest strength

[@HuwEvans.]

It’s just completely needless. Just why? 😂

[@FurioussBear]

Isn't it obvious? The "message".

[@skracing_1805]

@@FurioussBear Spot on.

[@steperry4089]

No, they need a new shiny product every 2 years with limited room for variation. So, because they want to flog more shirts

[@FurioussBear]

@@steperry4089 you're deluded if you think they did this for any other reason other than to put forth their stupid agenda

[@steperry4089]

@@FurioussBear Do you mean Nike or the FA? I agree that 'wokeness' or a kind of pandering to consumer groups might be their commercial strategy. But it is just a football shirt design, after all, right? It's not the most potent vehicle for politics, a little flag on the collar

[@Therealgaz619]

Imagine if Nike changed the flag for other nations like France, China, Turkey or even Saudi Arabia. Do you think they'll take it lying down?

[@ibrstellar1080]

I suspect France will as their run by the same Sabbatean Frankists via NGO'S.

[@Lunapodthe1st]

If they changed the US flag the players would refuse to wear it. They would probably want to invade someone over it.....

[@ibrstellar1080]

@@Lunapodthe1st The US only fight wars for their Sabbatean Masters and they are systematically destroying the US.

[@fluvirus]

We'll take it lying down, we don't stand up for anything in this country. They would be riots in other country's, we will moan and just put up with it, so sad.

[@1porter]

Brazil flag has been changed in the past. In fact it happens all the time. But stay fuming.

[@hoddymon10]

Turn the collar up like Harvey Elliott did playing for the under 21s well done harvey 👏👏👏

[@jayseabie215]

Let's playfully update the Nike logo, how about changing it from a tick to a cross? Or even change their name to Noke.

[@rufus1346]

They are playful with their logo though, all the time LOL....

[@davidsummer8631]

England's Bud Light moment

[@seanstrangeway457]

Between this, the USA new kits being completly trash and Barcelona looking to terminate their deal with Nike all within the same month they are definitly loosing their grip on the football market moving forward.

[@michaelbarb0sa]

And Portugal moving on with puma after this year too

[@isonope2578]

Should just go back to Umbro

[@bareknuckles2u]

Yeah, but Germany are moving to NIKE after a 75 year run with Addidas, so your argument is weak.

[@michaelbarb0sa]

@@bareknuckles2u I put it to you my dear friend Germany may just want to virtual signal to the world , show people they have moved on and are progressive after that little bad thing they were involved in called the world war 😂

[@tevildo45]

@isonope2578 Umbro did the exact same thing in 2010 with multi coloured St George’s crosses, people weren’t massive babies back then tho

[@DavidMeikle-ei7fr]

Who in the FA approved Nike's "playful update" ? A nation's flag is not there for interpretation or an update. Will Nike update any other nation's flag e.g. the USA ?

[@Youafool500]

Apparently the guy who approved it, ain’t there anymore !! It’s an Alphabet flag but Nike and the FA did not have the bottle to completely go rainbow !

[@jackjonesy9232]

He's an Indian

[@2010LeeG]

This is far more than football! It's about the country!

[@FreshAlchemy]

Stuart 'wishy-washy' Pearce. Anyone who watched him on the pitch would think this is a no-nonsense man of strong convictions who is not afraid of what others may think or feel about him. Nothing could be further from the truth. Timid man.

[@Brown87]

It's a pure disgrace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Mrwoss57]

Was the designer a “They/Them”?

[@FurioussBear]

With green hair and no father

[@Mrwoss57]

@@FurioussBear and apologising for their white privilege.

[@SilverSnark]

Whats this got to do with pronouns?

[@FreshAlchemy]

I don't know why they don't embrace "it" as one of their pronouns. That's what I call many of them. 😂

[@FreshAlchemy]

@@SilverSnark That's like asking what does water and oxgygen have to do with earth.

[@sparkymlarky]

Wearing that shirt while taking the knee 🤣

[@rufus1346]

Both a really great idea, I'm with you mate :-)

[@MalcolmTann0]

May as well change the badge while they’re at it

[@snakeplissken5480]

3 rainbow unicorns should do it

[@1porter]

Well it's been done before. Why is everyone pretending like this is new?

[@hithere3035]

Modern take on a classic? Nike of all sudden became a michelin starred chef.

[@runninaround]

These politicians are so transparent its almost sickening. Keir's keynotes: *mention the women's game *mention you go the game *mention the price of the kit and that it should be changed 🔔 🔚

[@EpicAelflaed]

Change it back to the original England flag Nike - Just Do It

[@gameram6382]

Boycott this foreign flag on our England kit.

[@Slice998]

I’m not patriotic at all but I do think reinterpreting the flag of a country is completely unnecessary. I don’t imagine any other country would allow this to happen. Whoever signed off on this needs sacking.

[@SChapps]

It’s because every company is forced to hire ‘LGBTQ’ staff as to avoid discrimination in this woke world we live in.. so what ends up happening is they have influence over design decisions and bring in ideologies about gender and sexuality where it is completely unnecessary and irrelevant. I get them putting a little message about equality or something inside the colllar, whatever. But the thing is, if there was a chance some sort of design idea would offend the LgBTQ community, they wouldn’t sign it off. But they knew this would rile people up who are patriotic about England and yet they did it anyway. Causing a stir on purpose

[@mash83]

​@SChapps it's the 66 colours, what are you on about?

[@SChapps]

@@mash83 No it’s not. The stripes on the sleeves are a similar design to the 1966 training kit. But there was no pink or purple on the 1966 kits at all

[@mash83]

@@SChapps yes the training kit.. so what are you on about?

[@SChapps]

@@mash83 are you slow?

[@7kingkev]

Absolute disgrace , anyone who buys it is a traitor

[@1porter]

I would order one if it wasn't £85.

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

Nike should play with the stars and stripes, and update them to the noughts and crosses

[@LukeSkywalker522]

Let's see if Nike change any other countries flags in the future ? I doubt it

[@NoxiousRob]

You think Nike just decided to change the flag at their own whim? They've clearly been given some guidance by the FA before creating it, and the FA signed off on it.

[@LukeSkywalker522]

@@NoxiousRob Correct but Nike could have refused considering they are the one's giving FA millions to be the sponsor

[@NoxiousRob]

​@@LukeSkywalker522 Why would Nike refuse to comply with the FA's wishes? They are under contract to the FA, they can't refuse to go along with the FA unless they want to lose the contract. It's not a good look for a strip manufacturer to lose a huge contract for refusing to provide what the customer wanted.

[@jasondyer811]

Don’t buy it .

[@johnmorrissey7873]

It's not a playful update they are trying to do away with the ENGLISH

[@dodgeboy9052]

Imagine telling Nike to change their logo if they want the contract to the English Bulldog... !! I don't know why people buy the rubbish advertising a sports clothing company and not getting paid for it ...!!

[@PhilMaiden]

The whole FA board should be SACKED.

[@alfredlear4141]

The St George and the price make it look more like a calculated move to stop national pride through the wearing of shirt 😢

[@ianz9916]

I'm surprised nobody has picked up on the lie that Nike told about the World Cup 1966. The colours on the World Cup 66 tracksuits were red white and blue rings round the collars and the cuffs. There was no purple. Maybe Umbro should take over the manufacture of England kit. We won the World Cup in their kit.

[@John-rr9nq]

Mess with a Nike logo and expect a law suit ..FACT. !!! But it’s ok for them too mess with a national flag

[@lfcspectre4335]

Sir Simon = Top LAD Proper Clobber ✊

[@hmehmet2017]

Do not buy it simply as that, who the hell do these people think they are changing our flag. Do not buy it

[@user-hs9tb8wf2l]

This just shows how out of touch the English fa are with the fans. Some one needs to go for making this decision in my eyes if not the whole lot who give the go ahead

[@Paul-bk8lc]

how would pearce not be offended by the desecration of our nation flag?

[@tevildo45]

Cos he’s not a snowflake or a child

[@EpicAelflaed]

He doesn’t want to give them a reaction strong enough to then label him ‘ray cist’ Then would label an Englishman ‘ray cist’ just for saying he’s proud to be English

[@1porter]

Probably because he's not a complete baby with a skewed sense of what patriotism actually is.

[@user-qv3jv1xs6j]

Players are too thick to have noticed it

[@ismith9826]

Boycott. Simple . How dare anyone change our flag???

[@alfredbearman396]

Scrap the shirts

[@rufus1346]

Stuart Peace was the GB manager for the 2012 Olympic football team when our kit had the union flag with no red and two shades of blue. And he was the under 21 manager when the England football kit had a bunch of different coloured crosses on it. LOL, what a hypercrit...

[@KR-us9pj]

Who ever signed that off should be sacked.

[@brocktonblockbuster6555]

Might as well change it for a small sanitary towel motif 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@paulgardner4931]

So is it alright for nike to change the USA flag to squares and circles? I think not. Its the England flag man, you can't change a countries flag😡

[@df9834]

A sports company should not be dictating and deciding on our national flag 🤷🏼‍♀️🙈

[@deanobest1450]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ got a feeling not many as usual will be sold. Will Nike be messing about with the French teams tricolour next? Embarrassing!

[@mcbeardthebat8589]

i think we should all take a second to realise that price is teh price being asked for most club shirts authentic shirts. so im guessing there will be an £80 version

[@davidbrims5825]

Ironic since the team is the Nigerian B team.

[@BristolMatt]

Pearce not saying much. He knows where his bread is buttered. Be a good little boy pearcy.

[@watcherwriter1689]

It's just not the England flag. It's the nike fc logo.

[@neilrafferty2097]

It isn't the Cross of St George if it's not red and white.

[@antonysteel8061]

Boycott Nike, boycott the FA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@michaelburley2905]

The shirt should be boycotted tbf . If it was any other countries shirt it would not be tolerated and I don’t think we should either

[@rollingwithdeep]

This the same bloke who managed the GB Olympic team with an all blue flag?!

[@gloriousrevolutionary2306]

You've just answered your own question. Team GB is composed of England and the other home nations.

[@hanleybabyable]

The blue kit design with the union flag on the arm as it should be ? That kit?

[@1porter]

@@gloriousrevolutionary2306 The Union flag is our national flag though. Why is this different? Also, there were colourful England flags on the 2010 kit, and the 2012 keeper kit. But the Daily Mail didn't tell us to be furious about those ones.

[@gloriousrevolutionary2306]

@@1porter The Union Flag is the flag of the United Kingdom, made up with the flags of all the home nations except Wales. St George's cross is what the England Flag is made up of. If we had a United Kingdom football time I would agree with you, but the home nations have their own teams, therefore they should be represented through the symbols associated with them. The three lions is the coat of arms and the St George's cross is a out flag.

[@travisjohnson8991]

If you look at that flag, it looks like Norway's colours. What an idiotic move!

[@marksavage1108]

its the ``bi-sexual`` flag colours, .

[@TherealAG11]

Well done Harvey hiding that piece of trash- you have made a lot of fans proud of you

[@thorntonovski]

Soon it will be 3 ponys on a shirt 😂

[@Billy_Bunter]

An intepretation of the classic!!! It is not a car your messing with it is our national flag and they want to charge us £125 for this insult.

[@FerreusNRG]

Right :D Make "playful update" to Nike logo and they'll sue you in a second :D

[@iroscoe]

Its got us all talking , and ultimately Nike probably regard all publicity as good publicity

[@TMAS01]

Look at its stock prices since everyone started talking. Nobody likes to lose money.

[@tevildo45]

Stock prices go up and down constantly it has no affect

[@TMAS01]

@@tevildo45 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hellalive8973]

@@tevildo45from a financial perspective no it doesn’t but reputation is tied into stocks and publicity also and companies do not want this publicity and they do not want people to avoid their stocks because they are erratic. They want stability and growth not fluctuation

[@tevildo45]

@hellalive8973 They fluctuate on a daily basis, their shirt deal with Germany created more headlines than some gammons upset with a football top

[@francischeung2223]

You don’t mess around with a country’s flag, plain and simple. Nike wouldn’t have done anything to the American flag, why would it do that another country’s flag?! And while at it, £120 for an England shirt given the current economy?! The launch of the latest England shirts is nothing short of a disaster!

[@midlandgeordie]

Does nobody remember the blue Union Jack during the Tory leadership contest!

[@emj3161]

That's not on something that represents a country. That was representing the Conservatives. The England football shirt represents England.

[@gloryguyful]

Nike should put a big L on the front........just to remind everyone who says....we can win this

[@louis84100]

Lets be truthful, during the presentation, FIFA probably didn't even look at the back of the England shirt.

[@pjoseph5950]

Its colours are very similar to a certain flag

[@mash83]

Yeah bloody that bloody Estonia! Grrrr I'm with you on this, let's get a petition going grrr I'm sooooo triggered by this pro Estonia nonsense it has to stop, so disrespectful! Well done you

[@johnthompson457]

@@mash83Estonia got purple in their flag now?

[@mash83]

@johnthompson457 God you're right! The problem is closer to home! BLOODY EXMOOR! Nike have something planed with exmoor, unbelievable.

[@Echo-mz6tz]

​@@mash83eh? I ment the bloody gaylord flag wer the bloody hell Estonia grrrr

[@Toracube]

Intro ‘Stuart Pearce has strong views on the logo’…Pearce says he’d wear it…😂😂

[@stevenhowe6677]

I bet 'Gary Lineker' absolutely loves it.

[@Nicholasvandermeer]

Don't buy the shirt,simple

[@dennislove4176]

… you can stick your ‘playful update’ up your ar*e… 🎶 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😁

[@MrDawson1569]

They can keep the shirt …the vintage shirts are better 🖕

[@geraldhutchinson9541]

We’ve and our being walked all over and there is nothing you can do about it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@dinkydaz6711]

Let’s face it the new generation of players will do anything to stay in the sheep squad

[@marksmarsh2039]

A real reason to boycott. I don't like saying that but it is about time we did something to show our disgust of what is happening to our country

[@krakatoa1200]

Stuart Pearce should be offended.

[@TM-pc6us]

I wouldn’t even want that shirt for free. (I’m English btw)

[@groundworkcivils7506]

I boycotted nike ages ago... Plenty of other sports gear to choose from

[@chrisburn1365]

Can anyone find an interview with SP from 2012 when he was Great Britains football coach for the Olympics, where he complained about the changing of colours on the union jack that was emblazoned across the front of the teams strip? No? Me neither 🙄🤦

[@marksavage1108]

two different flags. The Union Flag is for the 4 countries,

[@chrisburn1365]

@@marksavage1108 you don't say 🙄

[@marksavage1108]

@@chrisburn1365 Yes, I do. it needed pointing out as you were talking about an entirely different flag

[@chrisburn1365]

@@marksavage1108 so he should take issue with one flag but not other? The point is about symbolism and identity, what are we ? School children? 😂

[@marksavage1108]

@@chrisburn1365 A BIG FAT YES, the Union Flag is a political flag the England St George Cross is solely for the country of England and has so much more Patriotism attached. You can alter the Union Flag because it would need all four countries to opppose it, Patriotism starts and ends at home and the English Patriots dont want their centuries old individual flag changed.

[@MrSmegfish]

Its deeper than a " playful change around " .

[@FreshAlchemy]

The title does not match the video, especially that emoji at the end. That's how I wish Stuart Pearce had reacted to this. But alas, no, Stuart merely says midly that he does not really like it, but also, he seems not really too bothered about it either really, so much of a muchness in Stuart's dull brain. Must have headed too many balls or something.

[@1porter]

Yeah! Smart people are really angry with... a football kit design? Maybe Pearce isn't the one with a 'dull brain' here.

[@tedgoodfellow9103]

Usual story - out of touch with the English people... Regards from Blighty :).

[@declanokeeffe84]

Nike have probably done this as a wind up and it appears to be working a treat. Its so easy to wind up the English media and people in general these days, this is the main reason England will not be winning the Euros. I heard Shilton was complaining earlier that the England flag needs to remain Red, White and Blue 🤣😂

[@robinpillay8462]

The FA is probably getting a lot of money from Nike for that shirt.

[@abdiyusuf1751]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this country is disingenuous

[@MylifesHaunted]

It might be just me but. Also looks like there's a x in the middle of the cross. They're taking the pee

[@stephengarrett8076]

The football team should refuse to put the shirt on, supposed to be England team let's see a ???

[@creativeamerican8811]

Georgia just qualified ! 🇬🇪 😂😂😂

[@MRGTR-94]

As a Scot I'm really enjoying this.

[@ibrstellar1080]

You will soon follow suit and worse j7st like the latest anti free speech laws forced upon you.

[@Leejackson147]

What are you enjoying whiskey lager?😂

[@7Franciz]

As an Irishman, I can totally agree.

[@greenfly1264]

But as far as football goes, you're irrelevant 😂

[@grayeve7918]

Scots will be next as Scotland to white 🏳️

[@platnumj]

Lol a “playful” update to a flag, is downright disrespect. Why don’t they add LGBT 🏳️‍⚧️ colours to the American kit?? Unless England asked for it or approved it, then it’s disrespect.

[@waz1092]

DISGUSTING

[@jasoncarter4611]

If it isn’t broke don’t fix it 😢

[@ibrstellar1080]

Unless they want to break it and everything else is being destroyed by design in this Country by the Sabbatean cult.

[@Upstairsforpete]

Simple answer to the kit situation, Eng are a major force in football , Nike are not so why dont we keep it in house, design and manufacture our own kits . The FA sell them , all club shops stock them we have autonomy over everything that includes the price. Before everyone starts souting $$ at me we dont need the extra money and we would sell tons more, white home red away ...

[@timetide5961]

I will not be buying one they can keep it, its not English x

[@user-cs1dt2xw4c]

No wonder the games gone.

[@stephenmckelvie2032]

There needs to be an investigation into this, to find the person at the FA who must have approve this and given Nike the green light to to go ahead and produce this abortion.

[@oldguy2976]

We don’t want an interpretation of our flag ….. we want OUR flag

[@willtallis5275]

lol the all the talk about the shirt but not players pulling out of England duty they aren’t all injured that’s rubbish or the fact we’ve had a England manager longer than anyone else and he keeps failing

[@Kenyan_254.]

Now i understand why BEN WHITE refused to for England he knew this

[@terryolekszy9486]

Head’s need to roll at the woke fa England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is st. George do you not get it

[@happydace6991]

Just waiting for a rainbow to be incorporated in to the Union Jack.

[@Magicspark2366]

NOT the answer i was expecting from Paul...Is there any connection with NIKE i ask myself .

[@MRGTR-94]

Who's Paul

[@ibrstellar1080]

Blackrock own the media as they do Nike.

[@MichaelJoseph-vb5ml]

You put a flag or you dont. You allow add the three lions, or you dont. Enough.

[@lebly731]

Changing the England flag to a Rainbow flag is the last straw.

[@1porter]

Who has done that?

[@qwiksniper]

Face it everyone thinks it looks happy with a capital g that's why they're upset