Finland’s Hockey Team Asks Residents To Stop Wearing Their Jerseys

The Finland national ice hockey team released messages over social media and its website asking residents of the country not to wear the team jersey while they are attending rallies or protesting.

This statement came after pictures a surfaced over the weekend where a fan was wearing the jersey at an anti-refugee demonstration, where protesters were forming human walls to stop asylum seekers entering the country. A spokesperson to the team said this on the team’s official Twitter account, “Attention fans: Can we agree that hockey shirts belong in the stands and not at demonstrations”.

Former player now politician Sinuhe Wallinheimo also had this to say on twitter after the Tornio protest “A reminder to Lion shirt-clad demonstrators, the Lions play fair/hard on the ice. Elsewhere they’re international and tolerant”.