The world cup is upon us and, as always, it's a great opportunity for Englishmen and women to crowd into pubs, shout at foreigners and strap themselves in for an emotional rollercoaster ride that invariably ends in tear stained extra-time heartache and furious calls for penalty-taking to be made compulsory at GCSE. Nothing wrong there, you might think. But try telling the killjoys at BAA, who last week banned Heathrow Terminal 5 workers from flying England flags out of their car windows. The official reason was that there is a risk of them being sucked into a jet engine. The unofficial reason is that BAA doesn't want the England-supporting section of its workforce starting rucks with foreign workers over disputed penalties.
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