‘Should have intervened!’ Nigel Farage BLASTS football stars in Nike St George's cross row

‘Should have intervened!’ Nigel Farage BLASTS football stars in Nike St George's cross row
Gabrielle Wilde

By Gabrielle Wilde


Published: 26/03/2024

- 10:59

England's players all wore their collars down and displayed the controversial St George's Cross in their friendly game against Brazil

Nigel Farage has slammed "senior football players" for not "intervening" in the Nike St George's cross row as the brand changed the colour of the English emblem.

Last week, NIke made headlines after it revealed it had altered the St George's cross on football shirts using purple and blue horizontal stripes.

Speaking on GB News, host Patrick Christys asked Nigel: "Not one of the senior players decided to protest this design, when England faced Brazil and got beaten at Wembley this weekend.

"Should England's senior football stars be making a bit of a stand over this?"Nigel said: "They're footballers, not politicians and they're conscious of that. They know that they're also earning a fortune.

"But frankly, I think given that the crowd themselves made their own cross of St George, which was a very beautiful image, I think our top footballers on this one, should have intervened and they didn't.

"It's a bit gutless."

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