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So FIFA is banning wearing poppies at the England Scotland remberance match. Have they no soul?
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Are they also saying no to arm bands with poppies on ?
Haven't heard the latest
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It's probably because the Royal British Legion have refused to pay the necessary backhanders to the corrupt apparatchiks of FIFA.
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Are they also saying no to arm bands with poppies on ?
Haven't heard the latest It would seem so, Stewart... I think both teams should boycott the match - FIFA can go, errr, do something unmentionable...
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Well if they have said no to armbands with poppies, that is rediculous
I know England have had to go with armbands in the past
I know this might be controversial but I can understand FIFA reluctance to accept a poppy on a shirt with it being our symbol of rememberance for our fallen from our armed forces but to not allow arm bands with a poppy on for a game on the 11th of the 11th between two home nations strikes me as deliberately awkward and unsympathetic to national sentiment
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Could it be FIFA is Swiss based , the last president was Swiss , the current president is Swiss . Switzerland has not been at war for hundreds of years so don't have war remembrance
These are my thoughts, not ment to offend our Swiss Morgan owning friends
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I believe its commercial, political or religious logos that are banned. Poppies aren't any of these surely?
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So FIFA is banning wearing poppies at the England Scotland remberance match. Have they no soul? No. They just havent had a big enough bung.
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I think both teams should boycott the match - FIFA can go, errr, do something unmentionable...
Or simply wear poppies anyway?
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I believe its commercial, political or religious logos that are banned. Poppies aren't any of these surely? It's exactly the same rules that applied to advocacy in a court of law and so a speaking barrister, judge or magistrate can't wear a poppy as our own legal system deems it to be a symbol of alegency Having it on a shirt doesn't allow individual choice which should I feel be allowed -there are many conscientious objectors, pacifists, humanists and religious organisations who will respect those who have died but won't wear a poppy An armband allows those who might object to abstain from wearing it and I feel that those who have died have given their lives to preserve those very freedoms
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