England football shirts could be banned at pubs screening live World Cup matches.
Killjoy British cops have urged landlords to bar anyone wearing a Three Lions top, as they want to avoid a repeat of the violence that has marred previous events, particularly if England lose, The Sun reports.
"We often hear of a loss of pride in Britain, now cops want to ban the England shirt. It''s like saying anyone who wears one is a yob," said a fan.
The advice comes in a letter from the Metropolitan Police to pubs in Croydon, South London.
Among World Cup guidance, it suggests "dress code restrictions - example no football shirts". It also urges using plastic glasses and door staff.
Pubs are not obliged to follow the advice, but it warns: "Police will not hesitate to use powers under the Licensing Act should we find you are not actively supporting the prevention of crime."
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WTF. Comunists
WTF. Dreamers
WTF. Liberal Eco-Facist Totalitarian Socialists
I fully agree, why dont we BAN all these censoreding immagrants instead
THIS IS ENGLAND AND THEY SAY WE CANT REPRESENT OUR COUNTRY AND WEAR OUR COLOURS censored THEM ALL!! I DONT CARE IF I UPSET ANY1 NOT THAT I AM RACIST BUT THIS IS OUR COUNTRY IF THEY DONT LIKE IT THEN LEAVE!! IF WE TAKE OUR SHIRTS OFF THEY TAKE OFF THE TURBANS AND BURKHA'S WHATEVER THEY ARE CALLED THEM DRESS THINGS!
ME AND ALL OUR BOYS HAVE TALKED TO EVERY1 AND EVERY1 IN OUR PUB ON MATCH DAYS WILL ALL WEAR ENGLAND SHIRTS, LETS SEE IF THEY ARREST THE WHOLE PUB! COME ON ENGLAND
is that right we cant wear our country with pride but they can let out 2 terrorists who tried to bomb my home town to roam free and live of the state,.... bnp get on the case now!!!!
Police are far too cautious.
if they are gonna ban shirts they must also ban fans.
Just because you arent wearing an England top, doesnt mean it isnt obvious you are'nt supporting England..
DIABOLICAL.
Ban the fans then.
Ban the shirts - Ban the fans.
PATHETIC.
Its should be down to the landlords.. why should pubs that have no issues when football is on, be penalised for the one that do..
Venues that have had issues in the past should have this enforced, and be told they risk heavy fines if they have any issues (if they refuse the above).
know one is stopping other nationalitys coming into the pubs and yet we still get called rasicest. yet you can have a north london MUSLIM housing association.
disgusting
a total joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are they not? Could have fooled me?
Isn't this just you stereotyping someone because of what they are wearing?
I would say that anyone wearing an England shirt supports England. Its just supporting your own country.
Don't see why the police can't just realise that people want to have pride in their country. They should punish the ones that cause trouble, not everyone.
Whats next? You won't be allowed to wear football shirts inside stadiums?
lowbrow
It truely is a joke. Just because 2/3 years ago a couple of dip-s**ts went on a pissed up rampage in the town centre and pushed over a bench when England lost. The Met need to engage "the" brain cell and sort out the real trouble makers/gangs.
My choice to win the World Cup: Germany
Germany? cmon they lost to a crap Argentina like 5 weeks ago, USA is going to get passed the group stage just you watch
NEVER write the Germans off- they always seem to get it right at the World Cup. Annoyingly.
USA will make it to the quarter finals at absolute best- but even that is provided they don't face Germany in the second round... or Algeria do a Cameroon Italia 90/ Senegal 02.
England to lose a close final against Spain.
My Choice to Win World Cup-- anyone , other than USA
Wasn't April 1st a few days ago?
Whatever happens I won't be telling anybody I see wearing ANY countries shirt in the pub I work to take it off, and I expect many more to take the same sort of stance
there like myself
you may work in a pub like myself but you are not the lisencsee, trust me tell your ur boss to join pub watch and he will soon find out whats going on when the plastic glasses arrive!!!
Why would you need plastic door staff? Are the human door staff inadequate?
I agree. I think the ban is ridiculous.
I am sorry for all english peaceful football fans.
Greetings from germany^^
Many pubs and clubs already operate a similar dress code for all football shirts.
I think the advice - note the word 'ADVICE' - of the Met is to deter fans from rival clubs sparking arguments and is potentially taken out of context with regards the England shirt.
Land of the free lets be serious now Mr Yank. Although I will admit Britain isn't Great any more.
Oh, and go USA!
It is a SUN article, so very likely it is part of the pre-World Cup Campaign to str on nationalism, "pride" and anti-german(argentinian, french....insert countries)sentiments as always.
Up to the day they are eliminated, it will continue. Wind and stir the stupid masses up, create a nationalistic athmosphere and:
SELL NEWSPAPERS
Wake up folks, it is been going on ever since. Same methods, same kind of argumentation and the same stupid people reacting in the same way to it.
And banning football colors in London-pubs, is already a fact(for clubs!)
Quoting zuih:
Yes DONT believe the HYPE..expecially from those horried nasty NEWSPAPERSif anything..they should be BANNED PURE TABLOUD junkies ...WASTE OF SPACE
Reta.rd
read what i wrote you´re an uneducated numshell.
Exactly the THE SUN peargroup
I.d.i.ot
not copying you it was just what i thought
I remember a few years ago, at the 2006 World Cup, the Sun reported that Muslims were trying to stop people wearing England shirts as they found it offensive.
Of course it turned out to be total fabrication, with Muslim spokesmen saying they had no problem with it whatsoever.
Now The Sun tries it again, and evetybody falls for it again.
Anybody wanting to protest should boycott The Sun, because they're the people peddling this nonsense.
THANK GOD, at least somebody got it!
Excactly the truth
we can wear what we want with no replies
But if the English fans aren't wearing English shirts, that suddenly strips of them of any pride in their country attached to the pride in their shirts?
Seriously?
Banning wearing a shirt doesn't prevent violence, it just makes it more indiscriminate.
Quite frankly, I'd rather have English fans attacking people because they're wearing someone else's shirt, not just because they're brown.
Demsey and Altidore for the win!
Come on you YANKKKKKKKKSSS!!!
You thick twat, are you George Bush's son
With the world cup comes millions of pounds being spent on kits, team merchandise, TV's, booze in the bar, booze in the shops etc. thatetc.
The government WANT the public out in the bars spending money on booze. Do you think it was a coincidence that the Budget before this summers world cup has a dramatic rise for cider drinkers.
Cider the 3rd most popular summer drink in the U.K
censoredin english soccer scum!!!!
lets face it britain wont be a country soon it will be the new united nations
Nothing to see here, move along
if anything its going to rial up people more, ive already seen comments on facebook of people who are saying they are going to pubs with england shirts to piss the people off on purpose!
WTF. TWATS!!
are you going to be scared of my two year old then
In england we can wear our english top's and we can watch our english teams play english football.
I say ban all football and rugby etc in this country, it does no good and just promotes violence. BAN FOOTBALL AND THE WORLD CUP
what origin are your family then
Here is my view on racism. There are many racists in this country, some are english, most are foreign.
The issue of football shirts has come from "any foreigner" at all, it's come from the met police.
There ARE many racists in this country, and most are shaven headed, white englishmen who have mistaken hating other countries for loving theirs.
Let stop this Country going to pot!!!1
Im starting to doubt myself as to if it was a good idea to have children and bring them up in this disgraceful place!!!
I really do not understand the mentality of any sports fan because there is nothing in it for them but pride and the world would be a much better place if sport was banished.
pS My family and myself are british, they might be proud of Britain but I am certainly not
Lets go back to pride for a moment, what does pride in your team or country do for you, absolutely nuthin, it does not make you rich, nor does it give you a better job with better prospects, it does not give you anything but pride, and pride in my eyes in nuthin
I am an avid tennis and motorsport fan aswell as football. Does the same apply for those sports too? Motorsport isn't necessarily about national pride, does that place it in the same category?
I watch these sports because I enjoy watching them. I'll watch most football matches that are on while I'm about, and always like to support the local teams. The only items of official merchandise I own are three shirts and a jumper from my team which have been accumulated over a period of twelve years. I would also like to point out that my team is a Championship side, not full of over-paid over-rated tossers, and that I'm a woman. And no, I'm not a butch, mouthy chav woman either, although granted I will be sitting in my living room shouting at the telly.
As for my England shirt? Too expensive. That will be coming from New Look.
There, I've had my say.
The reason police forces have RECOMMENDED that pubs take these measures is to reduce violence. I personally don't think it makes a difference to violence what shirt you're wearing. I'll hit you anway.
Back to the point, immigrants have nothing to do with this decision it's all you thick tossers that are making it a problem. If you are stopped from wearing England shirts in pubs it is down to the landlord of said pub, not the police. Stop making mountains out of molehills you complete set of censoreds.
If people aren't happy with our patriotic country then they can take they're thoughts elsewhere.
The whole thing is a joke!!
good idea, ban the country, they got no chance of winning qnyway and lets face it look at the shit teams they beat to get to the finals and i will be in my glory when they come home at the first hurdle
I will stick my neck out and make this prediction: not a single person this WC will be arrested for wearing an England shirt.
Although, I am confident many English-shirt wearing louts WILL be arrested for public order offences, and the tabloids will probably twist that to make a headline which goes something like "England fan arrested for wearing Three Lions shirt". Do not fall for their lies.
Good day to you all.
As you're so intelligent, maybe you can find a use for paragraphs so I don't have to stare at a wall of text. Thanks.
Regards
I can't really be bothered constructing a reply to what you've written, your whole 'I'm-better-than-everyone-else' demeanour makes it almost pointless
The whole thing is farsical, the fact it came from The Sun makes it all the more unbelievable and probably nearer to the point is that someone is trying to stur up racial hatred.
Has anyone actually seen any evidence of the letter?
DON'T SEE THEM TELLING PEOPLE TO NOT WEAR TURBANS!
''MY ENGLISH PRIDE I WILL NOT HIDE.''
Why would someone who wears a turban be in a pub anyway? People who wear them belong to religions that don't permit them to drink alcohol.
thats some censoreded up shit
http://bit.ly/awHeo9
You lot are now making it a lot worse now. Nearly all england fans are RANTING.
Because we live in England, why are we not allowed to support our OWN country?
It's just wrong.
Allowing someone to wear a Liverpool top in Public? Now that should be banned!
Maybe it was advised at pubs/clubs that dont want to associate themselves with football. Much like Wetherspoons used to do before they decided they were missing out on a chunk of profit from having a TV in their pubs... They used to stop people coming in, in football shirts. Its not a new thing, its just a story the media ran with, which has ... See moreturned into a game of chinese whispers and ended up with everyone jumping on a bandwagon which doesnt exist.
Funny how its turned into "people cant wear them because it may offend others" - like i said chinese whispers
Knowhere did it say "during the games" either ... Lets not forget 2 of our games are on a Friday at 19:30, Sat at 19:30...If we win our group our next game would be Friday at 19:30, win that Sat 19:30
Could well (and was likely) to have been aimed at the pubs/clubs people will be going to "after" they have been on the piss all day wearing there england shirt. When they try to get in after a skinful of beer and are turned away become abusive and potentially violent (which we have all seen no doubt) If for example "croydon" which is where this sent to had a blanket ban on people wearing them full stop or after a certain time then it eliminates the risk factor from the off of this happening
You wouldnt go out on a normal night out wearing an england shirt expecting to get into pubs/clubs.
That is why the police are advising of things like this. You cant win in this country. I remember back in the 90's when England lost and loads of people went rioting through Andover tipping over and injuring the workers in the "brati" van just because they were German. You would expect them to advise them not to be there but i imagine they didnt and instead everyone would have expected the police to deal with the rioting.
Another relatively easy theory is with players names on the back, tend to be reprasentative of the club they support. Only takes one wrong comment about a players name after a few beers, someone takes it wrongly and it all kicks off. Again i have seen this happen before
Yes they are idiots before they put the shirts on, but there is no denying it, when the football shirts come on the fights do tend to break out.
I will even give you an example: This is after England won a game during the 2006 world cup at a local pub - Big fight kicked off, people went to calm it down and look what it turned into. This was about a 30 man brawl in the end, which ended up with someone trying to glass someone and another fella breaking their arm. We were their with our sunday football team and just trying to break a few fights up, people ended up involved http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2359/chestnute.png
ENGLISH AND PROUD! LONG LIVE ENGLAND! censored anyone who says differently.
I'm English, but find it very difficult to be proud of that when I come across people like you.
Sharing my nationality with your type makes me feel anything but proud, you lousy ignorant excuse for a human.
Regards
Wow! That was incredible. It's astonishing how you can type with Nick Griffins censored in your mouth. I'm always impressed by multi-taskers.
if the goverment want to stop upsteing pepole let them pull out of wars and i think evry one will be happy i dont know what upset me more war in iraq or the three lions shirt??
No-one is offended by your England shirt. No-one is stopping you from wearing it. Get over it and move on.
Also, to make an act in such short notice, they would need to consort the privy council (the queen + previous prime ministers etc.) and make and 'order in council' but this can only be done in emergencies or when parliament isn't sitting. since parliament is sitting, and since people wearing football shirts isn't exactly an emergency there is no way they can pass this law before the world cup.
so everyone just calm down and drop it.
your a arsehole