Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
FIFA is corrupt, anti-fair game and anything but for the sport.
Not to mention how political influenced they are, just look where the next Cups are being held. :roll:

@Jamie: I see what you did there :rotfl2:

The FIFA is as corrupt as its members, and clubs.


Maybe we could introduce trenches on the playing field, just for remembrance.

And why only poppies and WW1, why not go back to the jolly good old colonial times, with slaves doing the playing. Why not "We shall remember all of them" ?
I am sure we can have some remembrance day every day a year, for what mankind has done to itself during the millenia. This verbal exchange is exactly why the poppies have become a politically abused object.

Anyone read Moonlight's post further north..

Question: what has FIFA's corruption to do with the issue this thread is about?

Answer: nothing.

If FIFA's corruption angers you, then leave the association. That is what I indeed would prefer for football nations to do, to render FIFA meaningless by leaving it behind (will not happen, money, fat cats and all that, I know I know). But as long as you stay in, the statues are valid for you. That some break the rules, does not mean that now it is legal to break the rules for everybody else.

Well, seeing as how I started the thread, this is my final take on the subject.

For me, the poppy is not a political symbol but more a way of remembering and honouring those who made the ultimate sacrifice/paid the ultimate price.

That others choose to politicise it, that is up to them but I certainly don't agree with that viewpoint.

Understood.

Just for your consideration:
If you mourn the dead, but do not mention those who let them die for their own reasons or nothing, you let them get out unpunished.

We still have not really worked up why this all went so wrong, it seems saying Germany was guilty for all was enough, at the time. No one of the "old sobs" responsible for the war(s) Moonlight mentioned, has been punished, or court-martialed.
Instead we only mourn the dead ? This is NOT enough.