Fever Crazy England flag

The English flags on cars and buildings are because of the Football World Cup. The flags always appear like that when there are major sporting events which their country is competing in.

People don't bother to fly them at other times though!! I am interested in World cup football so I am flying England flags.

The flag is called the 'cross of St. George'. The red cross represents the flag that St. George, England's patron saint, carried into battle hundreds of years ago. In Scotland they have a white flag with a blue cross going from corner to corner. This is the flag of St. Andrew, Scotland's patron saint and is called the 'saltire', but I don't know why!

© Sheng-Kai Chou 2006