England & Scotland Awaiting FIFA Reply After Defying Rules & Wearing Poppies in World Cup Qualifier
England and Scotland are waiting to see if FIFA will launch an investigation against the pair, after they defied a ruling and displayed poppies on black armbands during their World Cup Qualifier on Friday evening.
Much of the pre-match build up had centred on the fallout between the two FA's and football's world governing body, who reportedly declined their requests to display poppies on the shirts for the match.
England and Scotland wore black armbands bearing a poppy despite Fifa not giving clearance for them to do sohttps://t.co/lPSPNIO46g pic.twitter.com/b31skTBd5T
FIFA rules clearly state that commercial, personal, political or religious messages must not be displayed by football teams and whilst many have criticised the idea that the poppy was categorised in a similar way, the world governing body rejected both England and Scotland's application to display it during the match.
The poppy has long been a tradition in Britain and is a symbol of acknowledgement to those who fought for their country during the great war.
With the match played on Armistice day, both England and Scotland made it clear they would ignore FIFA's stance and true to their word, all 22 players on the pitch wore black armbands displaying poppies.
Following the match, a FIFA statement (displayed on the "?ITV website) said: "As is the case with every qualifying game, the official match reports are submitted for post-match evaluation to the area responsible. Therefore, FIFA has no further comment at this stage."
Should the armbands be mentioned in the official match report, then the matter would be sent to the world governing body's disciplinary committee.
If the committee were to then find either FA guilty of breaching the rules, then a fine or World Cup points deduction could be possible punishments handed out.
Before the match took place, FIFA had made it clear that they had not banned the poppies outright and that there was the potential for them to allow the black armbands that were displayed by both sides.
England won the match at Wembley 3-0 thanks to goals from Danile Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill. The win means that the Three Lions sit top of their qualifying group, two points clear of second placed Slovenia.
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