(War Minus The) Shooting From The Hip: On Football, Poppies & Remembrance

And so it ends. Ninety-three years of England's ignominious and unpatriotic failure to wear poppies on their shirts comes to a deserved end, and a nation can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that now football has fallen into line, people will actually start wearing poppies for the first time ever.

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