Elliott hides Nike's 'woke' St George's flag by turning up his collar
One of England's young stars turned up the collar of the new 'woke' Nike shirt today - its first official outing in an international match - hiding the controversial blue and purple St George's Cross, MailOnline can reveal.
Liverpool's Harvey Elliott, 20, scored twice in the young Three Lions' 5-1 win over Azerbaijan in a Euro under-21 qualifier in Baku - but the flag on his £125 jersey could not be seen for the entire game.
Harvey has not commented but Liverpool don't have a collar on their famous red shirts, however, when the Surrey-born attacking midfielder played on loan for Blackburn Rovers in the Championship he kept his collar down.
His decision to turn his collar up on the shirt's first outing for the Young Lions will pile pressure on England's first team, who play Brazil at Wembley at 7pm tomorrow. David Seaman suggested earlier that he and other players would have refused to wear it.
It came amid huge anger back home with Rishi Sunak amongst those slamming the decision make the red and white flag blue and purple.
The FA has again insisted it will not recall the shirt, saying in a statement this afternoon: 'We are very proud of the red and white St George's cross - the England flag. We understand what it means to our fans, and how it unites and inspires, and it will be displayed prominently at Wembley tomorrow - as it always is - when England play Brazil'.
MailOnline can reveal that England's bungled football shirt was designed 5,000 miles away by Nike executives in America.
Pressure is growing on the highly-paid executives who signed off the 'abominable' changes to the St George's Cross. Critics have questioned whether Oregon-based £122billion firm would have dared to change the colours of the Stars and Stripes on
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