h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Where do the "Three lions on my shirt" come from?
And was his name really William Longespee? Needed a dandelion rather than a lion on his shield if that was the case

The three lions are an English heraldic device, so I guess that they get it from that. The article says that it was Richard I who first had the threee lions as a royal seal (1198).
Perhaps he thought it was a dandy lion.

Seems a bit cheeky, when the Queen, for example, obvioulsy doen't like footie.And LOL

It's not just the footie who use it, the English Cricket Board also use the three lions. Rugby doesn't, they use a red rose and white shirts (white shirts for a rugby team, who thought of that ). I guess the cricket can't really use a red rose for England as one of the counies already uses that device.

Until quite recently the English footie strip was white and I seem to remember Leeds United (at the time one of the dirtiest teams you could hope to meet) doing likewise.

Norman Hunter's shirt usually ended up RED!!!!!!
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I thought the England Football strip was still white and the reverse strip was red.

Naw!!!!!!!!

It ended up red with the oppositions BLOOD on it!!!!!!

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