A little gallows humour can go a long way. Kettering Town's patchwork team played Gateshead in
the Blue Square Premier in Tuesday night. Another crowd of under one thousand, another critical
evening in a relegation battle that may yet prove to be highly important should the club somehow
scrape through its current woes.
By Alan Duffy
Fabio Capello, with poppies at his feet, is disgusted by James Milner's poppy-less
arms.
Just when we thought we'd heard the last of the bizarre poppy furore (at least until next year),
The Sun are kind enough to give us one more poppy-based new story.
WIN a Remembrance Day anthem jacket worn by England at the Spain match
England's players honoured British servicemen and women by wearing special kit embossed with
poppies. And one lucky reader can win an special jacket worn by one of the England players during
the national anthem before the victory against Spain.
Why England should ignore FIFA and wear poppies on their shirts with pride
On Wednesday, the world's most patronising man – who unfortunately just happens to be this
nation's Prime Minister – stood up in the House of Commons and criticised FIFA for not allowing
England players to wear shirts that featured upon them images of a poppy.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
England promise to wear poppies with pride and John Terry has support of
squad
England players promised to honour the nation's war heroes when they wear the poppy at Wembley
tomorrow and hope it will inspire them to victory against world champions Spain.
View the full story here: The Mail
A news article on 2011-11-11 07:56:17 from: The Mail
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You may have heard about this little disagreement between FIFA and the English FA over the use
of poppies for England's friendly against Spain on Saturday. A compromise was finally reached, but
that didn't stop Nike from taking things into its own power-tripping hands.
Nine England internationals will wear Nike boots embroidered with a poppy for the match.
See pictures of England stars' special poppy boots
Nike have embroidered poppies into the boots of players including Theo Walcott, Scott Parker and
Ashley Cole
View the full story here: The Mirror
A news article on 2011-11-10 20:30:12 from: The Mirror
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I originally published this post here back in November 2009, talking about the crusade to try to
shame all Premier League clubs into attaching a poppy to their playing shirts, but the current
furore around FIFA's refusal to make an exception and allow the English football team to display
the same emblem on their shirts in this week's international match against Spain is essentially the
same argument being repeated again.
Hamann: FIFA should show some common sense over poppies
View the full story here: Talksport
A news article on 2011-11-10 11:46:35 from: Talksport
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opinion of Kop That.
Siempre si,
la FIFA accedió a que la Selección Inglesa utilize el tradicional "poppy" en
el encuentro ante España, regularmente éste lo lucen en la fecha en que se encuentra mas cercana
al 11 de Noviembre, pero en esta ocasión es fecha FIFA y había dado la negativa a los Ingleses de
utilizarlo.
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.
By Chris Wright
This time two years ago England played a friendly against Brazil without a poppy sewn on their
shirts, with ne'er a word uttered by a single soul. The same can be said for a November friendly
against France the following year.
This year, thanks to a bout of nonsensical provocation, we have these c**ts spreading their
muck.
FIFA poppy ban: David Cameron happy to defy ban
David Cameron has paved the way for England's footballers to deliver a huge snub to FIFA and
wear poppies against Spain on Saturday.
View the full story here: The Mail
A news article on 2011-11-09 15:45:33 from: The Mail
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FIFA have continued their tradition of embarrassing themselves on the world stage by refusing to
let England wear poppies on their shirts during their friendly match with Spain. This latest PR
disaster follows on from the recent gaffes of substantiated allegations of vote fixing for World
Cup venues, refusing to deploy technology to make the game fairer and voting in their bumbling
leader, Sepp Blatter, unopposed for a third term.
14/11/2009 Brazil 1-0 England (Qatar)
12/11/2005 England 3-2 Argentina (Switzerland)
10/11/2001 England 1-1 Sweden
13/11/1999 Scotland 0-2 England
09/11/1996 Georgia 0-2 England
13/11/1991 Poland 1-1 England
11/11/1987 Yugoslavia 1-4 England
12/11/1986 England 2-0 Yugoslavia
13/11/1985 England 0-0 Northern Ireland
14/11/1973 England 0-1 Italy
10/11/1971 England 1-1 Switzerland
12/11/1952 England 5-2 Wales
14/11/1951 England 2-2 Austria
10/11/1948 England 1-0 Wales
13/11/1946 England 3-0 Wales
The full list is here:
http://www.
FIFA poppy ban: Germans back England to wear poppies as David Cameron blasts
FIFA
The FA's fading hope of displaying poppies on England's shirts to show their respect and support
for our armed forces received welcome and dramatic support on Tuesday night from Germany.
England backed to wear poppies by Germany as David Cameron blasts FIFA
The FA's fading hope of displaying poppies on England's shirts to show their respect and support
for our armed forces received welcome and dramatic support on Tuesday night from Germany.
View the full story here: The Mail
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Football transfer rumours: Didier Drogba to Milan?
Today's Mill can see the wood for the poppies The Mill is no fan of international breaks, never
has been, never will. Out goes this country's love of all things domestic, most notably transfer
tittle-tattle, and in comes a whole load of patriotic piffle and posturing, three lions this, three
lions that.
Germany backs England to wear poppies
The FA's fading hope of displaying poppies on England's shirts to show their respect and support
for our armed forces received welcome and dramatic support on Tuesday night from Germany.
View the full story here: The Mail
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Wilshere: The England team should wear poppies on Saturday
Arsenal star weighs into controversy on Twitter
View the full story here: The Mirror
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Why the FA should be applauded for poppy efforts
Fifa, yet again, has proved itself incapable of valuing anything except financial gain in its
refusal to allow England to wear a poppy emblem against Spain on Saturday. At least the FA did what
they could. England will wear poppies on their training tops while the anthems are played, a wreath
will be laid and a poppy emblem will appear on the scoreboard.
Their Words FIFA's Regulations regarding Players' Equipment are that they should not carry any
political, religious or commercial messages. FIFA has 208 Member Associations and the same
regulations are applied globally, and uniformally, in the event of similar requests by other
nations to commemorate historical events.
Wilshere calls on FIFA to relent on poppy ban
"England team should wear poppies on saturday. Its the nations tradition and it would be
disrespectful not to!" he said on Twitter
View the full story here: The Mirror
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By Chris Wright
It's a quandary that has been playing on the minds of many-an English football for the last few
days: Why won't big bad, Nazi-sympathising, Holocaust-denying FIFA allow brave England to play with
Poppies embroidered on their shirts against Spain at Wembley on Saturday?
FA appeal to FIFA over poppies on England shirts
Governing body had previously rejected the request as a breach of the rules banning "any
political, religious or commercial messages" on kits
View the full story here: The Mirror
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Jack Wilshere 'to stay with Arsenal forever' and FA keep fighting for poppies at
Wembley
The FA are refusing to give up their fight with FIFA to let England's footballers wear their
poppies with pride at Wembley on Saturday. Also, Jack Wilshere has made an astonishing promise to
stay with Arsenal for the rest of his career.
FA keep fighting for poppies at Wembley: What the back pages say
The FA are refusing to give up their fight with FIFA to let England's footballers wear their
poppies with pride at Wembley on Saturday. Also, Jack Wilshere has made an astonishing promise to
stay with Arsenal for the rest of his career.
War veterans fury as FIFA ban England from wearing poppies on shirts
The FA had wanted to mark Armistice Day during Spain friendly
View the full story here: The Mirror
A news article on 2011-11-05 11:18:40 from: The Mirror
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Liverpool will wear jerseys embroidered with poppies when they take on Swansea City on Saturday
afternoon - before signing and donating them to the Royal British Legion.
With no Barclays Premier League matches next weekend, the Reds will don the special shirts to
commemorate Remembrance weekend.
Reds to wear poppy shirts
Liverpool will wear jerseys embroidered with poppies when they take on Swansea City on Saturday
afternoon before signing and donating them to the Royal British Legion.
View the full story here: Liverpool FC
A news article on 2011-11-04 17:08:19 from: Liverpool FC
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