England's new kit

[JamesWales]

It's not hard to see why people are pissed off is it? It's not for an American sportswear company to "playfully update" a national flag, not without some backlash anyway, or without a lot of consultation.

Symbols like flags, colours, badges, they do matter, especially when it's a national and historic symbol that represents more than just a football team.

Nike should just apologise and reissue. And stop dining out on how inclusive they are when they charge kids £70 for a shirt, whilst they are at it!

[City123]

It's on the back of the collar, hardly like they've changed the 3 lions. It's not like the cross is a regular part of their shirts either.

Their fans routinely turn up to game with the England flag altered to fit their club's colours and with some crap written all over it. Is that "respecting the flag"?

If they'd gotten rid of the 3 lions and put this as the crest then maybe they'd have a point, but people need to get over themselves. Feels like the kind of thing that wouldn't have been an issue 10 years ago. In fact didn't their 2010 shirt have multi coloured crosses all over it?

[Tuerto]

It's not hard to see why people are pissed off is it? It's not for an American sportswear company to "playfully update" a national flag, not without some backlash anyway, or without a lot of consultation.

Symbols like flags, colours, badges, they do matter, especially when it's a national and historic symbol that represents more than just a football team.

Nike should just apologise and reissue. And stop dining out on how inclusive they are when they charge kids £70 for a shirt, whilst they are at it!

Is it Nike who have made the decision on the England kit design, or is it the brief of the client, being the FA i presume? I can't see Nike having the power to decide what shirt style England play in, because that's the way you're wording it Jim. Sure, they may have knocked up a few sample for the FA to look at, but there's no way that Nike would have the final say on things so i don't see why you're blaming them, unless you know otherwise.