I don’t know if Scotland have ever worn a poppy but I suspect the SFA have been landed in this issue against their will by association with the FA in England. Fifa have indicated it is a political symbol and prohibited its attachment to football shirts. The FA and SFA plan to disregard that ruling and wear the poppy anyway.
Deliberately defying the rules is laced with Moral Hazard for the SFA, which will not be lost on the decision makers at Hampden. For years to come this act will be cited as evidence of double standards. It provides evidence for those who object to its very recent inclusion in football ceremony on the basis that politics should have no place in football.
Of course, declining to follow the FA’s lead would be a political act in itself, but one which fell within the rules.
I’m firmly of the belief that politics (as opposed to values) should have no place in football. I know this is a utopian aspiration, as sport and politics are inextricably linked, but only because trumpets continually insist on making them so.
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Hello again all you young rebels.
Apparently missing blog pages have turned up at the massive
shopping centre in Chadston Melbourne, they have been pasted
on to cover the windows of a huge retail and merchandising shoppe
under renovation, It couldn’t be could it? oh! my heart is pounding
in anticipation.
H.H Mick
PS….but since I’m not I just sit and fume…..
HH
Italiabhoy
‘The far left politics of the Green Brigade’
Do you have any examples of this?
Starry
The follies of Blair et al, should not sully the actual boys who put their lives on the line.
The poppy is not tarnished so.
HamiltonTim.
Their stupid political symbols of Che and Connolly.
Marxist loonies.
Oh Dear, it just gets worse, too much listening to sky and the bbc me thinks.
Big Peat
Holding up a banner is an example of ‘far left politics’?
Respectfully, you’ve led a sheltered life.
I knew Che was a left-winger but didn’t know Billy Connolly was one.
Every day’s a school day…
Exiled
Listen to neither of those.
Peat
Ps Marx wasn’t Connolly or Che :-)
Natknow.
He was a card carrying Marxist extremist.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/
When you need to explain the joke, then…ach…never mind….
Hamilton
But Che and Connolly wanted to be Marx.
Marxist loonies
https://goo.gl/images/1zXwrd
We’ve now got Matt Munroe on the jukey..and here’s a wee secret that I don’t want spread around…he was the illegitimate son of ma Dad and Marilyn…
He also told me Santa Claus was real.
Hail hail
Matt
BIG PEAT OF ISLAY
Don’t talk shite mate the poppy has been tarnished beyond all repair.
Hijacked by manipulators to manipulate those dumb enough to be manipulated by their shite…
See Ibrox on Saturday for example..
I’m immune to the ‘B’ word.
Talking about worse.
If you have read the JJ site today, the comments, a post from supposedly jack Irvine and then the response from JJ himself, as bad as it gets imo, they are hun scum, they are touting for your cash, let them burn in hell.
You can’t force people to respect symbols.
It is their right not to.
We might regard their position as wrong but that’s allowed too.
Too much sanctimonious hot air all round methinks….including me!
In the great scheme of things a wee flower debate is of no great import.
If you are in Mosul or Allepo…….there are real matters of life and death.
HH
Michael Collins, the finest Irishman of them all, said “I would have followed Connelly—I wouldn’t have followed Pearse.” James Connelly was born in Edinburgh. Would that Edinburgh had more like him. I buy a poppy each year. I don’t wear it. I likewise buy an Easter Lily and don’t wear it. I lost good friends in GB’s dirty wee war in N.Ireland. This blog is open to all, as it should be. That does not mean that trolls should be welcomed.
You can disagree with the politics of James Connelly, and for myself I’m no Marxist, but the man is an iconic hero to me.
Big Peat
You don’t want to be ruled by Brussels but you would happily bow to a king so long as he was descended from an effeminate Italian who liked to dress up in women’s clothes.
I think the last claimant was a delusional Polish Art historian. Does he tick your boxes?
Big Peat
I must have missed that. Can you provide some evidence please so I can read up on it?
Raymac
Good words.
Big Peat of Islay, that’s got to be one of the most shite post I’ve read on here for many a year. You seem to be advocating the forced wearing of the poppy.
Who TF are you to tell anyone what to wear?
Having respect for the people who bravely gave their lives for our freedom and deciding not to wear a poppy because of the cancerous erosion of the original symbolism of the poppy are not mutually exclusive.
You need to think again.
BTW, I’ve read my own posts so I know what I’m talking about when I say yours was shite.
HH ya dobber
Starry
I don’t normally banter with posters who throw insults about.
I’ll make this an exception.
Whether some currently use the Poppy wrongly, that does not change the original concept.
The Rainbow for me is light refracted through rain, not a symbol of homosexuality.
BP
It must be the record or hun blogs then, cos you don’t get shit like that from any Celtic blogs I have ever been on, ever.
HH
UNREPENTANT BRUSSELLS VASSELLS
BIG PEAT OF ISLAY on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 10:31 PM
Starry
I don’t normally banter with posters who throw insults about.
I’ll make this an exception.
Whether some currently use the Poppy wrongly, that does not change the original concept.
The Rainbow for me is light refracted through rain, not a symbol of homosexuality.
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Cuckoo cuckoo.
THIRDS63 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 10:25 PM
If you are in Mosul or Allepo…….there are real matters of life and death.
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Well said.
ACGR
Read the posts before you blabber.
I have clearly stated that folk should have freedom to decide to wear a poppy or not AND that FIFA should not dictate to us about our wearing of them on our armbands.
Away back to the sign-on queue ya numpty.
Big Peat, you’re that mad, zoomer monarchist who was on the blog a while back weren’t you?
Where have you been? Enjoying some time at Her Majestys pleasure. Must have been a secure ward with no wi-fi or sharp objects.
Welcome back to society! Your team died when you were away by the way….in case you missed it.
Ban the shamrock.
Particularly on Celtic shirts.
And the thistle.
Crass symbolism.
And see thae leeks .
Shamefully provocative.
WITS
You missed an apostrophe.
Art of War
Nothing wrong with Monarchy. Far better to have a credible Ruler who burdens responsibility for his wards, than living in a Democracy that isn’t one, that is burdened by thousands of parasitical politicians and their lackeys draining the country of billions, whilst all in fine symphony, pointing the finger at everyone else.
Funny how the most vehement poppy wearers come across as the most intolerant of others views.
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ACGR…
“BTW, I’ve read my own posts so I know what I’m talking about when I say yours was shite”
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That made me lol. ;)))
I liked the Marxs brothers……an was Che naw mair o a singer…..
ACGR, a see yer signin on noo……..HH bro….
Bma
Strange fact.
The word ” orange ” only entered the English language after the fruit first arrived from the new world and the word ” orange ” was created.
Wonder when the “House of Orange ” was first formed.
BIG PEAT OF ISLAY
Don’t waste yer time making exceptions for me Big Chap, I generally don’t get involved with the zoomers on here, so consider yourself a stand out in a blog with it fair share of out there zoomers.
Yer at it. You know it and I know it..