They aren't actually lions, they're actually Griffins
But...as Griffins,Leopards or Lions...why blue?
3 Lions on an England Football Shirt
The Brisbane Lions are a team in the Australian Football League. One can purchase a Brisbane Lions shirt from many sports apparel stores, such as the AFL Footy Shop or MarketSports.
It is not 3 loins that appears on the chest of you national football shirt. The animals which Richard I had three of on his shirt were leopards. At the time they were not aware of the difference between lions and leopards. In heraldry, a leopard is always sideways on and in that particular shape you now see on England football shirts in what is known as passant gardant. This means that Frank Skinner and David Baddiel's song "Three Lions" is totally wrong. In Scotland they use a rampant lion which is standing on two legs.
Someone with a British Lions shirt is supporting the British and Irish Lions, a rugby team selected from players from the national sides of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
It means a football jersey (or shirt). Football meaning soccer in Europe.
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because the flower that represents England is a red rose.....
"Blues" as a color is an English equivalent of the French word bleus. The masculine plural noun most famously references France's national football (soccer) team because of the shirt color. The pronunciation will be "bluh" in French.
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The home England football shirt is white and away is red.
a football jersey is a football players shirt
João Filipe Iria Santos Moutinho [b. September 8, 1986] wore number 10 shirt for the recent friendly [exhibition game] between the Portugal National Football Team and China PR National Football Team on March 3, 2010.