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Royal Mail has announced a UK-wide ban until “July 14”. Royal Mail has moved to ban its 100,000 posties from flying England flags during Euro 2024 to avoid sparking streets clashes, according to reports in the Sun newspaper.
Royal Mail has banned its 100,000 posties from flying England flags during the Euros – claiming they may spark clashes on the streets, or even crashes. A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “Flags on vehicles can be a distraction to other road users and poorly positioned items can block vision.
“Poorly fitted items can fall off and be an obstruction or hazard. Flags also introduce risk of confrontation with other road users or pedestrians. For this reason we do not permit celebratory flags to be displayed on any of our vehicles.”
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It comes as England kick off their campaign on Sunday versus Serbia. Speaking on the eve of the European Championships, which England go into as one of the favourites to lift the trophy, FA chief executive Mark Bullingham fell short of saying he wants Southgate to stay on in the role beyond his current contract, which expires in December.
“I think the world of Gareth,” Bullingham said. “I think he has done a phenomenal job. I think he’s transformed the fortunes of our men’s senior team. I think that’s not just off the pitch, which a lot of people talk about – you can see the culture.
“But also the performances on the pitch. [Since he took over] he has won about half of our knockout games, which are the measures we really use. You know we value him massively.” He said: “Gareth has been really, really clear that he wants to talk about that after the tournament.
“And I don’t want to provide any distraction for him and the team, and I want to respect the fact that he wants to talk about the future after the tournament.”
