To be enjoying seeing the flags by the names ...

[fluffyraggies]

... and would like to see the option to have one stay after the football is over. Unrelated to footie.

It gives MN a cosmopolitan sort of world-wide feel, and i'm finding it interesting :)

Hovering over the flag tells you the country and i've learned two i didn't know already in an hour.

(i realise that the choice of flag doesn't necessarily denote the nationality of the poster - lots of reasons to choose a flag. Still interesting)

[TheresLotsOfFarmyardAnimals]

I thought it was to show how worldly MN is but then it's all down to the stupid football.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

I love it!

[UnderEstherMate]

I love it too! I wish it wasn't just for the World Cup though. The flag I wanted wasn't there as they didn't qualify

[DizzyKipper]

I quite like it too as it reminds me that MN is much more than just the UK, which in all honesty is quite often an automatic assumption I make about where the posters are posting from.

[Rideronthestorm]

I'd like a Welsh one.

[ICanSeeTheSun]

I would love a welsh one.

The USA flag is because I just wanted one

[PrimalLass]

I'd like one, please. Even though Scotland obviously isn't in the World Cup.

[OwlCapone]

Personally, I find all the pandering to football rather tedious. A football icon and now flags? OVer the top IMO.

[PrimalLass]

How do you it?

[PennySillin]

I think most of them are sweepstake results but you're right it brightens mumsnet up - I like them!

[PennySillin]

Go into your profile Prima and you can select your team from a drop down menu.

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

Not wanting to seem thick..... How does one get a flag?

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

Ah x-post.

[PeachandRaspberry]

I like them, but only as a novelty. Not permanently!

[SarahAndFuck]

I don't care about the football, I just wanted a flag. I was tempted to go for the prettiest one but decided to stick with England.

I just hope it's not snatched away from me the moment we are out of the competition.

[Morethanalittlebitconfused]

Why has football been given this honour? Football is shit.

We've had the Olympics, Winter Olympics, rugby and cricket world cups in recent years and not a sniff of recognition.

[fluffyraggies]

We aught to have the choice of all the flags then. Not just the footie ones.

I didn't realise there was no Welsh choice. That's a shame.

Would people like them to stay after the WC is finished?

[LotsaTuddles]

I like it.

I have absolutely no interest in the World Cup or who's wins any kind of game.

It's just a bit of fun isn't it?

[TheSarcasticFringehead]

I love it. I had a hard choice between choosing England (where I'm from) and the US (where. I've lived for over a decade, where my DC are born and where I hope to spend the rest of my life).

[ICanSeeTheSun]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2108123-Hear-Ye-Hear-Ye-you-can-now-support-your-World-cup-footie-team-with-a-little-flag-NOT-an-avatar-oh-no

[OwlCapone]

There is football everywhere now. It's possible to hide the World Cup topic on MN and pretend it's not happening but now there are flags everywhere.

[SarahAndFuck]

"We've had the Olympics, Winter Olympics, rugby and cricket world cups in recent years and not a sniff of recognition."

Well we've got to start somewhere or there'd still be not a sniff.

[ICanSeeTheSun]

I would like them to stay.

[Morethanalittlebitconfused]

Not pissing on chips just pissed off at the worship at the shrine of a sport we as a nation are abysmal at that's played by and supported by thugs.