The bloomin' controversy

Where do you come down on whether England should wear a poppy on their shirts at Wembley against Spain?

I think it's another episode where FIFA under Blatter has stepped in another turd and won't politely excuse itself to go wash up.

Does anyone really think that if Blatter's chum Adi introduced a new even more lightweight and cock-eyed flighted ball with poppies on the panels for the match, that Blatter wouldn't champion it? Or that if Budweiser ran up a range of bottles with poppies, those suds wouldn't flow freely at Wembley?

It was only a matter of time before nationalist elements would be aroused by the story and sure enough, the bigots from the despicable EDL weighed in

Today the news was first that the ref's been instructed by FIFA to abandon the match if England defies the ban on the display of the poppy. Then later in the day, we learned of a compromise involving the poppy on black armbands.

I think the supporters are free to wear poppies and should, en masse. And if someone can do up a huge poppy banner to unveil down one side of Wembley, so much the better. Anything to continue to showcase that FIFA is morally bankrupt and that Blatter is unfit to be its chairman.