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  • 2016-05-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Police Going to Pubs and Banning England Football Jerseys (en)
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  • On 18 May 2016, a Facebook user published a text-based status update holding that police in the UK were visiting pubs and clubs to enforce a ban on patrons' wearing England football jerseys: It didn't take long to find examples of the very same claim having been made six years earlier:: Facebook wasn't the only medium in which similar claims were aired. In 2010 an online forum user similarly queried other users as to why police were purportedly targeting pubgoers wearing football jerseys: The spring 2010 emergence of the rumor appeared to be connected to a British tabloid article published on 2 April 2010. That speculative item not only didn't report any such ban, it merely surmised that (on the advice of police) pub owners in one part of London might choose to impose a dress code temporarily banning English football jerseys from their premises to head off problems with hyped-up football fans if England should lose a World Cup match: A significant aspect of the purported police letter to pub owners that was elided from the rumor was that it advised imposing a temporary dress code of no football shirts, not a restriction on England football shirts only. Since the rumor began circulating in 2010, no subsequent reports have emerged of police in England confiscating football jerseys or raiding pubs to chase out patrons sporting them. (en)
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