Looks like the ‘one love’ armbands are getting the boot.

If you're in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, wearing an arm band supporting LGBTQ rights is clearly political.

The fact that the political message is 100% in the right, and the country's laws are disgustingly wrong, doesn't stop that.
okay, fair.
 
they should all dye their hair, either full rainbow or each a colour, colour their boots or again wear different coloured boots - at the line up all turn their backs to the camera / take a knee & maybe even the national badges they hand over at the start full rainbow..
I would 100% rather see the whole team take a booking than capitulate to this if I'm honest
 
Yes this is just a new rule/ threat - nations doing this will be fined “normally”.
Not sure what rule the referee can give a yellow card for. It would require IFAB accreditation to change and create a new specific rule.
 
There is a simple solution to this, England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany FAs and UEFA get together and inform FIFA we will wear whatever armbands we want, and failure to allow it will result in us leaving the tournament.

FIFA would be bankrupt within days as all the TV channels sue them for failure to provide the matches they've paid for, sponsors would sue them for failure to provide the world platform for their advertising. So FIFA would be forced to back down.

Time some european FAs grew a pair of bollox.
 
exactly, there are no rules in the game to say this is a cautionable offence. Kane never gets booked anyway, so it's not going to bother us
Kane has been booked 4 times in 16 PL games this season, so I wouldn’t be too confident he can go through this tournament without getting booked for legitimate reasons.
 
It's ok, England taking the knee before kick off.

That will show them.
maybe the whole team wears them, then we're united, right? I think Kane really has to be careful here, ok I get the narrative, but not rhetoric-- which is totally out of hand . Let's not forget the fans have paid big money to watch England pursue the latter stages of the tournament and having half the team on yellows or even reds before game two will certainly be kick in the head for the fans. If we wanted to protest then surely we just should have stopped at home, and become a protest against the whole FIFA organisation, but that would have also upset the moneymen-- can't win. Next would be a FIFA ban, maybe 4 years so we'd miss out on another US World Cup.
 
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