Papaver rhoeas.

Despite a last-minute fudge, there is still annoyance, or even anger in some circles, at FIFA's decision not to allow England to display remembrance poppies on their shirts for the forthcoming friendly match against Spain. You can (or at least I can) see FIFA's point - if we allow this, we will be besieged by other organisations saying "Me too, me too".  It's worth remembering that the poppy tradition is essentially just a British and Commonwealth one - the rest of the world don't observe it, and indeed some of them don't understand it (remember all the fuss in China this time last year?).  What is difficult to understand is how the poppy offends against FIFA's rule that "shirts should not carry political, religious or commercial messages". Apparently they categorise the poppy as "political", though as political means relating to (state) policy, I can't see how they justify that.  And as FIFA's rule appears to apply only to shirts, does that mean you can put what you like on shorts, or socks?