"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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Chris Green wrote:

In uk.d-i-y Brian Gaff wrote:

I'd suggest they all have pictures of naked ladies on their shirts and
that
will probably be allowed as its not an advert.

FIFA's reason (or not) is that the poppy is a religious symbol,
nothing to do with it being an advert or not.

The question is whether their seeing the poppy as a religious symbol
is correct. Banning such symbols on the football field does make
sense.

It would be very hard to accept our much admired national symbol and not
allow, say, Russian military emblems. How can FIFA judge between them?
And if they did allow them, there would hardly be any pair of teams
willing to appear on the same field with each other.

If you are so ashamed of your nationality, I pity you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_poppy