03-11-2016, 18:33
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2016, 18:35 by hibeejim21.)
(03-11-2016, 16:55)St Charles Owl Wrote: Up to you guys what Scotland does, you are correct some symbols in Scotland have other connotations that they don't in England and the poppy and Union Jack are just two of them. But surely the precedent for this sort of display was set when Ireland wore a shirt earlier this year that remembered the 100th anniversary of those killed in the Easter Monday uprising??
Besides, the right minded among us have to stop groups hijacking national symbols for their own purpose?? It took years for the flag of St George and Union Jack to be taken back from the right wing fascists who used it as their symbol, we mustnt let that happen again.
No-one has answered the question. Why was there not the same furore in 1999 the day before remembrance sunday when neither side wore anything ? England even played on armistice day in 1987 when world war 1 veterans were still living. Again no poppy.
That said I think FIFA should allow it,just to shut up the hysteria in the right wing press. Even in the commons yesterday politicians were shrieking about it whilst they have happily sold weaponry to regimes that murder civilians or sending british servicemen to war on spurious reason.
With the ROI issue,i'm sure the game was a friendly and I'm not certain this particular rule applies with those but I might be wrong.