Bread2.0 wrote:I agree that as members our FA has a legitimate voice when it comes to setting general policy.
That's why they have an AGM where members can vote and determine policy through collective agreement.
One country - One vote.
However, that doesn't mean that member FA's can then unilaterally decide to pick and choose which rules they abide by.
Presumably, before the rule about not wearing political or religious motifs on playing kit was passed, it must have been put to a vote of the membership.
And then been ratified as part of the due process.
So to pop up now and start demanding that we get a special opt-out clause is both churlish and misguided.
And now the conspiracy theory bit.....
The government's coming under increasing pressure to demonstrate that we won't be dictated to by Europe in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations and this chance to fly the flag and tell Johnny Foreigner to fuck right off fits their preferred narrative.
Sadly, like the initial Brexit vote, too many people miss the subtle points which make all the difference in things like this, making it easy for unscrupulous politicians like May and her chums to use opportunities like this to whip up fervor which benefits them.
FIFA is a soft target at the moment and this is just political opportunism being disguised as something else.
And if we're serious about honouring the fallen, I find that not only distasteful but downright crass to boot.
This is exactly what Theresa May is doing here and I find it disgusting that she's using this as a platform to garner support from the sun newsreader types who look at what she's doing and say, "Look at Theresa May standing up for the will of the people, isn't she brilliant".
What a load of bollocks. It's all political point scoring as usual and this time she's using the men and women who died in the wars to make herself look good.
It's got fuck all to do with her and she stands to lose nothing if the teams go ahead and wear the poppies and nothing if they don't. It will be down to the football associations of each country to deal with the consequences but that doesn't matter too her as long as she's ingratiated herself with the folk who are outraged over nothing much.
Banging on about how it's so outrageous and how they should get their own house in order is hypocritical at best. Expenses scandals, honours for donors and the like, benefits cuts, people having to survive on food banks, the fact that ex-servicemen and women have to rely on charities and poppy sales etc rather than being looked aftet by the very government that sent them out there to fight their political wars in the first place, that's what outrages me, so why don't you look a bit closer to home before scoring points off peoples emotions you horrible fucker!