The wheel turns...

The question of the wearing of remembrance poppies on football shirts in international games has raised its head again.  You may wish to refer back to my post of 10th November 2011, which was the last time it hit the headlines.  This time it's even more pertinent because it concerns a match between England and Scotland which will take place on Armistice Day itself - November 11th.  FIFA are still refusing to allow poppies to be displayed on shirts, maintaining, as they did before, that the poppy is a political symbol.  I seem to remember that back in 2011, a compromise was reached whereby players were allowed to wear armbands with the poppy symbol on, so we have a precedent, even though it's one which will probably not fully satisfy anybody.