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GERMANY’S players will join their England counterparts in wearing poppies on black armbands in a poignant show of remembrance in tomorrow’s friendly international at Wembley.
The last few general admission tickets were sold yesterday, meaning 80,000 fans are expected to join the players from both teams in observing a minute’s silence to remember those who died in war. The rules were changed last month after England and Scotland were initially fined for a similar display this time last year.
Home nations may now wear a poppy if opposing teams and the competition organiser agree to it.
FA chief Martin Glenn “a show of and unity” executive called it solidarity while his German counterpart Reinhard Grindel said that FIFA had been wrong to initially brand the poppy as a political symbol.
“Poppies are about remembering the kind of values that were kicked to the ground in two World Wars but are cherished by football: respect, tolerance, and humanity,” he said.
“They are not political propaganda.” and Sunderland manager said: “I want to be more aggressive. When I was younger it was, ‘This is how it is, take it or leave it’. As you get older, you mellow.
“In this job, I’m going back to being David Moyes at Preston – when players were crying at the work. If the players here were thinking the work had not been hard enough, I hope they won’t cry if we work them harder. We might need to upset a few to get where we need to go.”
Moyes stands to earn a £1million bonus if he keeps the club in the Premier League.