Nationalism often seeps into the game – particularly during international competition – but the Clausura is about much more than that: club loyalty is at stake here, and there are no shared banners or colours.
The players walk out of the tunnel and onto the field, and SUS unveil a banner reading "These Colours Will Never Run".
Historian Jānis Grīnbergs discovered this reference in the 19th century and popularized the "banner red in colour, cut through with a white stripe".
Demonstrators taking part in the "I vote against" march also carried banners in rainbow colours, reading: "Homosexuality is not a choice but hatred is" and "Let's protect all loves".
The idea of the spinning wheel was put forth by Lala Hansraj, and Gandhi commissioned Suraiya Tayyabji to design a flag with the spinning wheel on a red and green banner, the red colour signifying Hindus and the green standing for Muslims.
So the Tories' battle cry now is: "We are the party who'd quite like to cut taxes!" But leave it to David Davis to bring out the banner with the true colours on it.
Flags of various forms and purpose are known as colours, standards, banners, ensigns, pendants (or pennants), pennons, guidons, and burgees.
The Saints, knowing they had to make home advantage count, armed their supporters with banners in the home colours and urged them to make some noise.
Under cover of darkness Ed and I went round the centre of Stratford carrying huge banners in our school colours of purple and turquoise, telling people about our open day.
Taking the colours of the banner of the Holy Roman Emperor, the flag of the Austrian Empire was black and gold.
