IN LIGHT of the on-going COVID restrictions, Sunderland City council have cancelled this years Remembrance day service and parade. Due to the local Government restriction the council plan to hold an online service on November 8, to allow residents of Sunderland to pay their respects from home. The Royal British […]
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England and Scotland players to defy FIFA by wearing poppy armbands
Players in the November 11 World Cup qualifier will wear black poppy armbands in defiance of FIFA’s insistence that no exceptions will be made by the world governing body. An excerpt from FIFA’s Laws of the Game state that: “The basic compulsory equipment must not have any political, religious or personal slogans, […]