SIR - In response to my previous letter about virtue signalling in football, Paul Charman says poppies are not political.
He has a point but whether they should be put on football shirts is a slightly different matter. What next? I believe FIFA fined England and Scotland for this in 2016.
There are people that don't wear poppies including me but I always contribute to the appeal. And there are those that see them as a symbol of the British army and imperialism.
When it comes to politics in sport, the very fact that people are discussing whether these things are right, means they're wrong. And some signals by the FA are in conflict with remembrance and poppies.
Football and other sport is not the place to be lectured, even if it's something we agree with. But paying respects to the war dead with silence is not political and is correct.
Alan Bates, Bowland Avenue, Baildon
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