Argentine players brandish political Falklands flag after England match

ATLANTA, July 15 : Argentina players held up a political banner declaring "Las Malvinas Son Argentinas" ("The Falklands are Argentine") after their 2-1 World Cup semi-final victory over England on Wednesday, in apparent contravention of FIFA rules.FIFA's Stadium Code of Conduct bans "banners, flags, flyers, apparel and other paraphernalia that are of a political, offensive, and/or discriminatory nature" inside stadiums.World soccer's ruling body did not immediately reply to a request for comment.The question of sovereignty over the islands in the South Atlantic known to the British as the Falklands and the Argentines as the Malvinas has been a long-running sore in relations between the countries. They fought a short conflict over the islands in 1982, in which 649 Argentine soldiers and 255