Jim Boyce, Britain's representative at FIFA, today joined the campaign for the governing body to permit England's players to wear poppies on their shirts at Wembley on Saturday.
The Football Association wrote to FIFA yesterday asking them to change their decision after the world body ruled poppies would contravene their laws.
Boyce, who replaced Geoff Thompson as a FIFA vice-president in June, says England players should be allowed to have poppies on their shirts against Spain in support for Remembrance Sunday.
The Northern Irishman said: "I think there has to be a bit of common sense used when requests like this come in.
"I don't think it would offend anybody to have a poppy on the shirts. I am not involved in the decision and I do understand there have to be rules but as this is a special request from a member of FIFA and is not of a political nature I believe that common sense should prevail."
FIFA's rules prevent anything of a political nature being worn on shirts and although the organisation does not regard poppies as political, they are concerned it would open the door to countries wanting to wear emblems on their shirts, some of which would be overtly political.
Yesterday, FA chief executive Alex Horne made a new request to FIFA asking them to reconsider.
