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Effing Poppygate

I tell you this whole wearing of Poppies on shirts debacle is doing my head in! I listen to morons on radio stations and read the words of idiots on websites, all posturing and vowing their displeasure at FIFA's ruling regarding the wearing of a poppy on the England shirt.

Not so long ago no frigging footballer wore a poppy while on the pitch, then some team with a nice gesture thought it a good idea, then more followed suit but before we knew a nice gesture had turned into a political storm, with those teams who didn't fall in line having scorn poured all over them from morons wanting to be noticed! It became yet another axe to grind with highly paid footballers and highly profitable clubs, yet another stick to beat them with!

Some claim it's not a political symbol, well all the guff I've heard this past week has certainly turned it into one if it wasn't already one! They say we should refuse to play, or wear poppies in defiance, how the hell did support for such bollox gain so much momentum in such a short amount of time?
I've worn poppies for years, I attend a service of remembrance each year, but the last thing I need is a storm created by a bunch of self-serving morons who's actions seem to have more to do with being seen to be conformist rather than real thought for the sentiments of the time.

If this goes on I'm going to be embarrassed to wear a poppy because it will associate me with such lunacy and such idiots! Let everyone in the crowd wear one, lay a wreath in the centre circle, have them on banners covering the stands, but FFS leave off this crap that we're losing out on some sort of significance if the players don't wear them on their shirts, because it's not traditional, it's not the done thing, not even the right thing, because if it had have been we'd have seen them on shirts for the past 80 years which is clearly not the case. Just another load of Bandwagon jumping and it pees me right off!

When will people learn to stop acting like Sheep?!!!

posted on 9/11/11

didi, that is basically what i tried to say earlier, but much more eloquently put.

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posted on 9/11/11

I agree too much posturing has been made and attempts at political gain has taken away from what should just be a sign of respect.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2058356/England-poppy-ban-case-upset-Germans.html
of course it's just a fifa source.

posted on 9/11/11



Thanks guys. I try and make at least one sensible and constructive comment per day. The rest tend to be a long the lines of Galv's up there but not quite as funny

posted on 9/11/11

when england played sweden 10 years ago (10.11.01)..no poppies were on the england shirts and there was no media fuss about it...

why the chnage 10 years later ??

posted on 9/11/11

Lambsy, great article mate, spot on with everything. Pekster the change in just 10 years is simple really, the effing internet. Any nobody can write $h1te and the sheep will follow. Everything just seems to gather momentum nowadays.

How many of these morons who are spouting nonsense wanting a poppy on the players shirts, are they actually wearing one themselves in work or about town? If they are were, were they actually wearing one before poppygate took hold of every bleeding media outlet this last week? Probably not too many were and the chances are they won't be wearing one next year.

comment by Lambsy (U2861)

posted on 11/11/11

Cheers Dirty, yes the information/communication age has certainly got a lot to answer for!

posted on 11/11/11

I am not going to get into the rights and wrongs of wearing a poppy, but what I think people have forgot is that FIFA have to be seen to be totally impartal. The poppy is not just a symbol for the 2 world wars, but a mark of respect for ALL british service men and woman, and as such represents each and every conflict that Britain has been involved in. Again I am not going to get into the rights and wrongs of every conflict, but FIFA has to be seen to be netural, and alot of countires under their jurestiction will have been effected by the very same conflicts that these poppies remember. Countries such as Iraq, Afganestan, Argentina, Germany, etc...... are all equal members of FIFA and as such FIFA must ensure total impartiality in the matter.
For them it is not about the rights and wrongs of the poppy and what it represents but the fact that other countries who may be opposed to this display are also memebers of their organisation and as such neutrality is the best policy.

posted on 11/11/11

It was probably just a nice idea by someone. Drum up a bit of extra support for a charity. If FIFA had just said ok, we probably wouldn't have even noticed they were earing them.

posted on 11/11/11

I love this article. One of the best I've read in a long time it's so true, if the players or the FA care so much about respecting the fallen, why don't they all donate money to the British legion? More than the 20p needed to buy a poppy, but big sums that they are earning weakly. I'm sure the soldiers will appreciate that more than the storm that is being created over a simply, merely symbolic poppy.

In the real world, it doesn't effect anything, but donations do.

posted on 12/11/11

It reads even better if you read it in the style of that Harry Enfield character, I think he was clled Frank??
"If Parker Bowles came on to me in MY house I should say Oi Parker Bowles!!!!! NO!!!!

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