FIFA banning poppies

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The Rugby preliminaries there: neither Wales or Australia wearing poppies; no mention of it at all.

Why is football affected by this and other sports not?
 
The poppy has value because it is a voluntary gesture – a parting with a few pence to display your acknowledgment of those who died in service of their country.

I think we have moved past that in the last few years.
 
My issue with the poppy is that it symbolises British Military adventurism as uniformly good and just, when on many occasions it was anything but. Propaganda and mind-control.
 
Poppies have been around since the 1920s I think. Its only recently this has become an issue. Poppies have been turned into a must wear badge of honour.
 
Opium mate.
"Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants. Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin."
 
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