Paul Rouse: Failing to take politics out of the poppy

The poppy is everywhere on British tv at the moment. And it is present in a way that makes it obvious that someone who is not wearing one in, for example, a television studio covering a soccer match is clearly making a statement of choice.

A general view of a poppy on the Liverpool jersey last year.

There is a notion that English soccer teams put the poppy on their jerseys to honour the men who died fighting in the British armed forces in the Great War.

This is only partially true.