England's flag?

Question

why is England's flag in the world cup (with st. george's cross) different from their national flag (the red, white and blue)? and why exactly is that the case?

Answer 1

The flag of Great Britain is a blend of the flags of Scotland and England. In fact, the Scots, the Welsh, and the North Irish play displaying their flag as well, not the flag of Great Britain

Answer 2

The national flag you are thinking of is actually the flag for Great Britain/United Kingdom.

England on its own.. uses the flag depicted in the World Cup (With St. George's cross).

Answer 3

Simple... England is a seperate territory, but apart of the United Kingdom, along with Wales and Scotland. The UK flag is the Union Jack, with flags of the 3 seperate territories. England's flag is a part of the Union Jack, but represents itself with a seperate flag which is already incoporated. Read below:

Union Jack is the commonly used name for the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Historically, the flag has been used throughout the former British Empire. It still retains an official or semi-official status in many Commonwealth Realms. The current design (which is used as the national Flag of the United Kingdom) dates from the Union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801.

The current Union Flag dates from 1 January 1801 with the Act of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The new design added the red saltire cross attributed to St Patrick for Ireland. This saltire is overlaid on the saltire of St Andrew, but still beneath the cross of St George. To make it clear Ireland was not superior to Scotland, the Irish cross was made thinner and half covered by the saltire of St Andrew. The arrangement has introduced a requirement to display the flag "the right way up"; see specifications for flag use, below. The red cross is thought to have come from the heraldic device of the Fitzgerald family who were sent by Henry II of England to aid Anglo-Norman rule in Ireland and has rarely been used as an emblem of Ireland by the Irish: a harp, a Celtic cross, a shamrock, or (since 1922) an Irish tricolour have been more common. However, the exact origin of the flag is unknown, with evidence of saltires being present on ancient Irish coins and maps. The St Patrick's saltire flag has been used in more recent times for St Patrick's Day in Northern Ireland, by various organisations wishing to avoid the sectarianism that may be implied by the use of either the tricolour or symbols of Unionism.

Answer 4

I think you are confused with England Flag with Britain Flag. Try to look up in Yahoo images or Google images by typing England Flag then Britain Flag. Britain=(England , Ireland , Scotland, Wales). In World Cup those 4 teams compete separately. In Olympic games, they compete as one team.(Britain)

Answer 5

England is part of UK, the Union Jack is a flag of multiple crosses superimposed - Englamnd, Scotland, Wales, NI

Answer 6

Thanx for the background. I have learned somethin new.

Answer 7

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