John Wayne was a Nazi

Yet another international break means another quiet day. 2 stories "worth" mentioning. This from The Manchester Evening News is a straight report on Sir Alex's FA hearing into his Alan Wiley comments.
The other "story" is Oliver Holt taking us to task for not having poppies on our shirts for Sunday's game, presumably using the fact that it's Armistice Day to justify being so late on it (bizarrely the column is titled "Oliver Holt in Abu Dhabi..." why he had to go there to give such a bullshit opinion I'm not entirely sure...):

was it too much to expect them to embroider a poppy on to the black sash around their home shirt?

At a time when the nation is appalled by the horrors that are befalling our soldiers daily in Iraq and Afghanistan, was it really too much to ask?

Sadly, for our best-supported club, United have still not lost the habit of putting their foot in their mouth when it comes to public relations.

Yes, it was too much to ask. Why? Because as far as I can make out the driving force behind the campaign to get clubs to wear poppies are those assholes at The Daily Mail. Take this (I provide link for references sake, I wouldn't recommend or condone clicking on it...):

That makes a total of six clubs who have changed their plans this week on the back of Sportsmail’s campaign that began by pointing out that only 12 of the 20 teams in the top flight had informed the Premier League about their intention to put a poppy on their match kit.

Why we would dance to the tune of The Daily Mail is absolutely beyond me.
If we did everything they suggested we'd end up limiting the number of foreigners who we let in to Old Trafford, have a points system to decide which of the foreigners we could let in,
and ban gay people from coming to games unless they could prove their morals were of a sound nature... The mere fact that the Daily Mail support it suggests that its a bad idea. Twats.