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Quite. I think FIFA could have helped themselves by distinguishing here. "Football's governing body took action against the Football Association of Wales (FAW) because fans wore poppies in the stands and the armed forces held bunches of poppies at the side of the pitch." From the BBC. If it...

Pretty hard I'd imagine for 211 international associations making demands some for genuine and some, I'd imagine, for frivolous reasons. Why make a difficult job harder? I'd go as far as to say in this country it isn't (though James McClean thought otherwise.) But that's not really the point...

Where does that stop? FIFA moves the fixtures at our behest and it opens it up other associations making their own demands. I'm far from in FIFA's corner but there's something individual to the home nations that we seem to think we're some sort of special case. There's 200 odd other members as...

And loads of advertising to please FIFA's commercial partners of course. Having said that, we were made aware of the rules and as much as we disagreed, it was our choice to break them. The fine was as depressingly inevitable as some of the virtue signalling that has gone on around this matter.