Arsene Wenger has claimed that FIFA is wrong to ban poppies on shirts for the World Cup qualifier between England and Scotland on Remembrance Day.
World football's governing body prohibits "political, religious or commercial messages" on shirts, and has told the English and Scottish FAs that their players cannot sport the remembrance symbol for the game.
However, the two home nations' governing bodies have claimed that they plan to defy the ban and allow their footballers to sport poppies on black armbands.
"By wanting to be too politically correct you can go sometimes against tradition," Wenger told reporters on Thursday.
"In this case, I think that is part of the English culture that I love. They respect tradition and they respect people who have given their life for the country."
The poppy is worn in the weeks up to and around Remembrance Day on November 11 to remember British and Commonwealth armed forces who died in the First World War and later conflicts.
Giuseppe Labellarte
