Nike's 'playful' attempt to alter England's Euro 2024 shirt by changing the colour of the St George's Cross vows to 'disrupt history'... but what is the real story of the England kit?

Nike's ‘playful’ England kit vows to ‘disrupt history’. Nike's decision to replace the horizontal line on the traditional red cross on the back of England's Euro 2024 shirt with a navy blue, light blue and pink one has caused controversy Jack Grealish models the kit, which will cost fans £124.99 in adult sizes and £119.99 for kids Your browser does not support iframes. That move proved highly controversial — as did Admiral’s now-iconic jersey for the 1980 World Cup, which splashed colour on to the home kit for the first time, with large horizontal blue and red stripes. Most of England’s 152-year history has seen them have similarly demure, plain white kits In 1951, England first sported the red colours we now associate with Bobby Moore and 1966 Clearly not far enough, as Admiral went bankrupt in 1982 and Umbro resumed duties as England’s kit provider. Kevin Keegan in England action, showing how the white colour has remained through the ages Stuart Pearce at Euro 1996, a tournament in which England introduced an indigo alternative, which was actually grey — worn in the semi-final shootout defeat by Germany Some fans were angered in 2010 when Umbro swapped the conventional St George’s cross for a series of multi-coloured crosses, to reflect ‘an increasingly diverse England’.