England has rediscovered its flag. World Cup fever has led to a boom in sales of the flag of St George.

Furry dice have been replaced as the definition of naff. Today, the benchmark is four St George’s flags flying from a Ford.

But we Celts can’t complain. Back in the Seventies we growled when English soccer fans waved union flags: didn’t they know that England had its own emblem? That’s been put right. Give it another 20 years and the English might just find their own national anthem!

See Wikipedia’s entry on the English flag.