This half of you is right There are loads of Billy Askews https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/dir/William/Askew https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Askew (Juror in the Anne Boleyn trial, forced his daughter to marry which led to her being burnt at the stake and, perhaps strangest of all, was the MP for Grimsby!
Does if they watch the matches though - through their 'owners' feed. Also it will mean more to international audiences if that bit was broadcast by MOTD or Sky
Because it is highly offensive in the Arab world, cameras wouldn't show this. Suspect we would probably lose the support of the rest of the football world.
That's a daft un' but, I still piss myself laughing everytime I see it - if you were trying to stage it you couldn't time it so perfectly.
Do flip flops count & can people just bring an extra shoe to save all the messing about of taking it off & putting it back on again. Scarbs would miss half the game getting his twelve hole Doc Martin back on.
In the Middle East, showing someone the sole of your shoe is an insult, holding your shoe in the air on the off-chance someone sees it on telly really isn't.
Don't be daft I don't happen to think it's a great idea anyway, but it would be clear to everyone what the intent/message was