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England poppy ban...

While I think the FIFA agreement is a decent compromise, I'm tending to agree with you. As a matter of interest wearing a poppy on a shirt is only a recent innovation, I'm sure it's not more than 5 years. And we must have played Internationals around Remembrance Day in the past, and then a minutes silence has sufficed as has been the case in the Football League for many years.

On that point, David Davies (ex-FA) was on the Beeb the other day and he referred to a game we played against Argentina in 2003 the day before Remembrance Sunday. No poppies required then.
 
Were we not one of the first clubs, if not THE first, to wear embroidered poppies on our shirts 3 or 4 years ago? I have a feeling we had a Friday night game so were ahead of the teams kicking off on the Saturday, and the shirts were auctioned off for charity. If I remember rightly, Ricey bought one.
 
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