FIFA Rejects England's Second Poppy Request

England’s hopes of wearing an embroidered red poppy on their football shirts to honor Britain’s war dead were again rejected by FIFA on Tuesday, despite a last-ditch and heartfelt intervention by the British government.

The Football Association had made a special request to FIFA to relax its stance preventing England from marking Remembrance Day—when Commonwealth countries pay tribute to members of the armed forces who have died on duty since World War I—by wearing the poppies in Saturday’s friendly against Spain at Wembley Stadium.

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