Re: The Union Jack and football games....
From the information I could find online there's a lot of controversy about the Union Flag even down to when it should be called a Union Jack rather than a Union Flag. There's even more information on all aspects of the Union Flag, how it came into being, how it should be flown etc. All very interesting, yet another subject to learn about
:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/culture-se...LZg6cuAasjFftc
How the Union Flag should be flown (apparently it's reckoned 45% of the public don't know):
https://www.goodto.com/family/which-...ck-flag-542496
There is a massive amount of information on Wikipedia, however I cannot find very much that indicates why the Union Jack is seen less nowadays, especially not at football matches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack
Finally, a link that gives more information about how the Union Jack evolved. That includes the comments below as to perhaps why Brexit may have accelerated how a 'taken-for-grantedness' about the flag has been lost:
“What Britain has lost is a sort of taken-for-grantedness about the flag, and Brexit has accelerated that,” says Duncan Morrow, professor of politics at Ulster University in Belfast …”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...d-ireland-fray