Football Fans/ Players Wearing Poppies

[Jennykenny]

I've obviously missed something but why is there an outcry about fans and/or footballers wearing poppies?

[Arksided]

England and Scotland wore them during their world cup qualifier... don't have me started on FIFA... I'll go off on one.

[KARL]

In short, FIFA don't want political or other ritualistic display during international games. Rather like Muslims accept they must stick rigidly to a ban on making images of the prophet and get quite worked up when others fail to observe that maxim, so some people in Britain got quite worked up when players were told they should not during their game(s) observe the (unofficial) UK mandatory practice of wearing images depicting a flower in part associated with military battle(s). This is only an issue in and for the UK, very few others have the slightest idea what the ritual consists of.

[grumpy01]

Tell FIFA to shove any ban where the sun don't shine.Why shouldn't British sides where poppies, its not upsetting anyone else.

[vulcan42]

FIFA have failed miserably by classing the poppy, a symbol of remembrance, as a religious item and banning footballers from wearing them during a match, threatening fines. England and Scotland defied the ban.

[Jennykenny]

Thanks all.

[Arksided]

FIFA are so far up their own spectrum, they don't know what the left hand is doing.