! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
Arsenal Football club has banned national flags from its stadium after some greeks complained about a solitary Turkish Cypriot flag in the crowd.
Arsenal says:
“Arsenal as a club prides itself on being inclusive with respect to all nationalities, cultural and ethnic groups.”
“We are asking that only Arsenal flags, without any national emblems, are displayed within the stadium.”
“We will be implementing this policy with immediate effect.”
We do, of course, have a human right to fly our nation flags and Arsenal will be breaking the law if it refuses anyone their right to do so.
It seems an unenforceable and costly thing to do. Why bother?
I suppose it depends on whether or not the Arsenal Ground itself can be classed as Private Property, and if so, can Arsenal rules predominate over General Law.
It’s a human right, it doesn’t change because it’s private property.