[BBKing]

I am amazed that none of you are prepared to accept that the Daily Heil would exaggerate a story.

Quite.

They normally just make it up.

A few facts:

1) the ECHR and thus the Human Rights Act explicitly protect things like wearing England shirts under the first part of Article 10:

# Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2) Note 'public authority' - private authorities, such as pub landlords, are perfectly within their rights to operate things like dress codes, as long as they don't expect the police to help enforce them (they can expect the police to help enforce public order, say if they try and throw someone off their property and he becomes violent).

3) Therefore it's quite possible to walk into a pub in an England shirt and be told to get out. This isn't the fault of the Muslims, it's the fault of the English habit of letting private individuals do what they want, within reason. Having once had to search London for a pub that would let a mate wearing a Doncaster Dragons rugby league shirt come in, I can attest to this.

4) Note that private individuals don't have complete freedom of action on their own property - you can't build a bomb or murder someone or use racist/threatening language to the customers - again this is in the ECHR, in the second part of Article 10:

# The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or the rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

So all you need to do to be in the clear is argue that wearing an England shirt doesn't have implications for national security, territorial integrity, public safety, crime/disorder prevention, health, morals, reputation, privacy and judicial independence. Which shouldn't be hard. Easier than defending reading the Daily Mail, which breaks several of those.