My son has an Inter Milan football top and it has a flag on the back?

[eulum]

The flag appears to be the St George cross - any explanations anyone?

[Arcadia]

Fiirstly, I'm afriaid that it is certainly a fake Inter Milan shirt.. the club have never worn this symbol anywhere on their official shirts since the days of Mussolini. No club would use it now, because of the political sybolism.

In Italy, although it appers in the city flags of both Milan and Genoa, the flag is now mainly known as the symbol of the Lega Nord ( "Northern League"), a far right wing (with fascist tendencies) political party who campaigne for the independence of Northern Italy from the South, which they see as poor, underdeveloped and foreign in nature. The Northern League gain some support from the fanatical "tifosi" (supporters) of Northern clubs, who use the politics to taunt Southern clubs...hence the flag on this counterfeit shirt.