If it's not red and white, it's not the St George's Cross - Southgate on controversial kit
Gareth Southgate gives his opinion on Nike changing the colour of the St George's Cross on the England kit.
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00:00 I think the most important thing that has to be on an England shirt are the
00:03 three lions. It's our iconic symbol. It is what distinguishes us not only
00:09 from football teams around the world but from England rugby and England cricket.
00:13 It's the thing that when I put my kit on at Burnham Beach 30 years ago and
00:18 looked in the mirror, I clearly don't look at my face too often when I do that,
00:21 but the three lions really stood out. So yeah, then I suppose what you're really
00:29 asking is should we be tampering with the cross of St. George? In my head, if
00:37 it's not a red cross on a white background then it isn't the cross of
00:40 St. George anyway. So, hard question to answer really because it's presumably
00:47 some artistic take on which I'm not creative enough to understand really.