![]() First, it showed that in less than a century, Remembrance had established itself as such a powerful cultural force that any challenge to it – however trivial it may have seemed – had the potential to cause a national furore. 4ĤThe debacle is a highly revealing case study in cultural heritage for two reasons. 3 Yet when the match was played three days later, poppies were not just restricted to armbands: a poppy wreath was placed on the pitch before kick-off players wore poppy-embroidered training tops and poppy-embossed anthem jackets poppies were attached to scoreboards and advertising hoardings and poppy-sellers were positioned in conspicuous locations around the stadium. On Wednesday 9 November it gave permission for poppies to be worn, with the proviso that they were attached to black armbands rather than embroidered directly onto players’ shirts.
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