https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4808018/world-cup-teams-abandon-onelove-armband-amid-fifa-row
Fines are OK, but once the yellow cards are on the table, the fickle Euro folds like a sheet of paper.
The captains of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands will not wear the OneLove anti-discrimination armband in their World Cup opening games after confirmation that their captains would be given yellow cards if they took part in the initiative.
The announcement came just before their World Cup campaigns were scheduled to start. The national federations said they were prepared to pay a fine for their captains to wear the OneLove armband, but once it became clear their captains would be sanctioned, they had to change plans.
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