• English and Scottish FAs both considering their responses
The English and Scottish football associations are expected to challenge likely disciplinary action by the game’s world governing body, Fifa, over the pre-match remembrance ceremonies and wearing of poppies when the two countries’ national teams played each other on 11 November.
Fifa’s disciplinary committee opened proceedings on Thursday, telling both FAs that they may have breached football’s law that prohibits the wearing of political messages on players’ kit, when they displayed a poppy embroidered into an armband on the teams’ sleeves. A Fifa spokesperson said other regulations, understood also to concern non-politicisation of football matches, may have been breached by the “non-approved pre-match ceremony” to mark the signing of the armistice, the display of flags with poppies by members of the armed forces and fans, showing the poppy on the Wembley big screens and placing t-shirts with poppies on supporters’ seats.
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