McClean Again....

I think it’s quite sad. He’s in his mid 30s - a senior professional - and still playing the pantomime villain to a load of teens and 20 something drunks on a matchday.

I suppose all footballers like to be remembered for something, even if it’s not great ability.

 

Nothing he says and does was as bad as the starving and killing of Irish under various British rules.

 

It doesn't surprise me a few on here defend him sadly.

 

Or that makes it okay then..

 

To be fair he does try not to - but things leak through.

He calls himself a ‘proud Fenian’.

He has, on multiple occasions, quoted Bobby Sands in response to being abused by crowds (including his own).

He claims not to be anti-British or pro-terrorist but posted photos of himself giving his kids a ‘history lesson’ in a balaclava.

There’s nothing wrong with him being republican. There’s nothing wrong with him not wishing to wear a poppy for the reasons he states. However he also has to draw attention to himself by standing away from his team or turning his back on buglers playing the last post. He has to insert pro-IRA language into his repostes.

Nemanja Vidic didn’t wear a poppy. Plenty of others. They didn’t get the ‘abuse’ - because they didn’t also exaggerate that to the extent he does. He courts the controversy, he wants the abuse so that he can play the victim.

Maybe he isn’t outwardly anti-British in what he says as such, but he has certainly more than implied it and his ‘opinions’ aren’t just in sympathy to the friends and family affected by what went on in the troubles and on Bloody Sunday; but also in support and condonation of terrorist activities by a terrorist organisation.

I respect his right to be Irish and not British. I respect his right to condemn the actions of Bloody Sunday and his linking of that to the remembrance poppy.

I have no defence of the paras who shot indiscriminately in Bogside. Though it has to be said that in the years of the troubles, accepted figures state the British military were responsible for the deaths of 188 civilians. In the same period the IRA killed at least three times more civilians -and over a thousand servicemen. Wanting an independent Irish state on the whole island and republicanism is fine. Terrorism and killing to achieve it isn’t. He plainly disagrees with his word and actions.

He’s a complete t.wat and I will continue to refer to him as such when he glorifies the past actions of those with whom he sympathises.

 

Tell me again, why does he play in England or I should say why is he allowed to play here

 

I wonder what his team mate thinks of it - Steven Fletcher, born in Shrewsbury according to Wiki