Claim: Football players will display Black Lives Matter on their shirts but weren't allowed to display the poppy symbol.
Fact-check: Footballers aren't banned from wearing the poppy - Full Fact
Verdict: footballers in the premier league have displayed the words black lives matter on their shirts recently, and have always been allowed to wear the poppy. home nations teams were fined in 2016 for wearing the poppy in an international fixture, but this rule has since been changed.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-06-24T00:00:00