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Do you know when England first wore poppies on their shirts?
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My point was (or one of them) that how do you know they wore them with pride or had the choice?
I'm baffled as to how you expect me to research your wild assumptions.
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No, that's P&L Lite shurley.... nobody can take that seriously....
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steveindenmark
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I can only speak for myself. But if I didn't want to wear something I didn't believe in, then I wouldn't. Maybe your right. Maybe they were all just good boys and did as they were told.
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steveindenmark
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2012 when Armistice Day fell on Remembrance Sunday. If Google is right.
Can you imagine the shítstorm if, say, Wayne Rooney had chosen not to wear one?
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So are we to believe that players didn't care prior to 2012? No, I'm sorry to say that the FA has politicized remembrance.
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An informative article in The Manchester Guardian....https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/01/wearing-poppy-meaningful-voluntary-footballers
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Which is 91 years after the poppy was adopted as the symbol of a charity for ex-members of the armed forces. The last time I looked it was still the symbol of a charity for ex-members of the armed forces, not anything else.
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steveindenmark
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I don't think that is the case. It was originally done as a fund raiser for the Poppy appeal. All the shirts were auctioned off for the appeal afterwards. It looks like the idea stuck.
I agree with that article Snorri and can only repeat what I said earlier. I wouldn't wear one if I didn't believe in it and I hope the England players are the same.
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The England players are following orders. As others have said, a print on a shirt worn for 90 minutes is not remembrance.
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Whilst watching the BBC coverage of the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow I noted that:
1. Claire Balding was not wearing a poppy - although I noted what looked like red ear-rings which may have been poppies
2. Chris Hoy and Jo Rowsell Shand were wearing "rest of UK" poppies and not Scottish poppies - from this I hypothesised that either both bought their own poppies from somewhere in England and decided they should make a point of wearing them whilst on TV or someone from the BBC, based in England, bought them and took them to Glasgow and handed the poppies to them.
3. Respect, my arse (I am not sure if there should be a comma but I think there should be, otherwise it reads as an instruction to respect my rather pert bottocks)
1. Claire Balding was not wearing a poppy - although I noted what looked like red ear-rings which may have been poppies
2. Chris Hoy and Jo Rowsell Shand were wearing "rest of UK" poppies and not Scottish poppies - from this I hypothesised that either both bought their own poppies from somewhere in England and decided they should make a point of wearing them whilst on TV or someone from the BBC, based in England, bought them and took them to Glasgow and handed the poppies to them.
3. Respect, my arse (I am not sure if there should be a comma but I think there should be, otherwise it reads as an instruction to respect my rather pert bottocks)
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The biggest punishment for Scotland would be if FIFA gave us 10 points and enforced us to go to the Finals.
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