“But now they are messing with the colours on a national flag and you know, where would it stop once it starts?

“Is the next shirt going to have more changes in the colour? So I am against it, I think it is wrong.

“It is only a small change, but I think it could be the start of more changes.

“That’s the way I look on it, once you start changing the colour. I mean the Three Lions is obviously traditional and the fans love that.

“I am very surprised to be fair that the FA agreed to this but it’s all about money and making money and if the shirt sponsor says look ‘we’d like to do this’ then sometimes you get maybe members at the FA who think, ‘Oh well, we are getting paid well for it.’ ‘You know, we won’t bother’.

“But I think it is a precedent that we don’t want, you know, other things to suddenly change on the next England shirt, and you know maybe, you know a pink band going round the middle of the shirt – I mean you don’t know do you what they are going to change.”

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Shilton also criticised the cost of the jerseys, with an ‘authentic’ version setting adults back £124.99 – while children will have to pay a staggering £119.99.

“I do think also the cost of the shirts now is getting extortionate. I think the fans are getting ripped off in a way,” he continued.

“I think it is going to be very difficult for parents if they have got a couple of kids to buy them each a new shirt, that’s why they make these changes.”