He’s dead right, he’ll continue to get sectarian abuse and the FA will do nothing about it and you better believe it won’t be highlighted by Sky Sports. Why won’t it be highlighted? Because it’s sectarian.
His picture in 2020 was indeed stupid, but he has been abused and abused and abused and abused. He is right to call out all of those footballing bodies who have done nothing and will continue to do nothing. Surprise surprise, the English media is conveniently silent on this one…
He’s white Irish therefore fair game, just utter garbage hypocrisy by the powers that run English football.
The extent of English respect for foreigners is directly proportional to the extent to which they are prepared to let their country be owned by England.
If James McClean was getting this abuse because he was black, or gay, or Muslim, or Welsh, it would be front page news and radio and television shows would be dedicated to discuss the matter. Questions would be asked in Parliament.
Anti-Irish hate is England’s hidden shame and it is never challenged.
UEFA and FIFA should never have allowed the poppy to be worn on shirts.
The outrageous girl’s singing grabs the attention, but this is fine.
Wonder if Sky News would ask the FA and those supporters the same question…
He wouldn’t sing God save the Queen.
McClean! McClean!
And the same arseholes doing that are the same ones whining about the Irish ladies singing a rebel song amongst themselves in the changing room!
Mackem bastards is all I have to say. They should have no pride on where they come from awful city
Mad idea but maybe McClean is riding the storm with another 3 or 4 years left in him to come home back to Ireland with enough money to secure himself a majority stake in Derry City.
He was always a target for loyalists and 6 counties ‘our wee country’ supporters, he’s a Catholic a nationalist and from Derry. ‘Our wee country’ supporters do have links to the British national front/BNP.
Its shocking nothing is ever done about the abuse he receives. All these campaigns they trot out every year and basically tell James to get on with it when its thrown his way.
Irish is a race. Anti Irish chants are racism. If it was monkey chants or thrown bananas the players would walk off and the match would be stopped. Rightly so.
When he retires he should sue the FA and document every single time he asked for help and was denied it.
Had this same talk with my Co-worker. They’ll open up and inquiry about those girls chanting but it would take someone shooting James McClean dead on the pitch before a finger is lifted.
The people complaining about the women’s team are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the people who abuse James. Just saying.
At a lecture a few weeks ago someone with a doctorate thought it was appropriate to mock my accent in front of almost 200 hundred other students. I wonder if it would be considered appropriate to attempt to copy the accent of any of the other students on the course?
Or more to the point, would any of the the others with a ‘non-English’ accent have been conditioned to accept mockery of their background and not complain to the university about it?
Thousands of people shouting abuse at one man for 8 years live on television and nothing happens, but a team of women sing the chorus of an IRA song in their dressing room and they’re humiliated on live TV. But apparently the Irish are the ones who need a history lesson. Spare me. That man deserves better.
The last acceptable form of racism is against the Irish…
The gas part is that the Irish women’s squad get investigated by the police and UEFA for singing a famous song by the Wolfe Tones, and we’re told to learn about history (the irony was hysterical), but they can abuse Irish people from a height on a weekly basis and it’s not an issue.
Don’t forget lads, sort by controversial.
They’re afraid to show the historical shame of the empire to their schoolchildren. Shame for robbing and plundering the colonies of the world, from Irish oak and potatoes etc. to sugar and rum from the Caribbean to spices and fabrics from the Indian subcontinent and so on. I’ll say nothing about stealing Australia from the native Australian People…….and the list goes on.
I find so many conversations with friends and family always coming back to the brits did this. It’s crazy the global deep seeded trauma that govt caused
I was treated really well in London, people were super sound, maybe even “too sound”..
Outside London, not so much, but a lot of England is a bit shite too, and the north outside of Liverpool and Manchester can be unfriendly territory to any Irish person.
OP you should crosspost this to /r/soccer – i tried to do it but wouldn’t work for some reason.
If he was from a different minority there would be outrage. Funny how selective organisations and people are.
Posted this last year. My brother was at a Wigan match. Spectators did the clap when players took the knee. Literally 10 seconds later James McClean gets the ball and cries of “fucking irish cunt” happened right in front of him. Within the first 5 minutes McClean was abused about 3 times. My brother went to a steward and said he didn’t feel safe. The stewards didn’t know what to do. Anyways, police and everyone got involved and after a lengthy process the fans were banned from the stadium.
The Wigan fans do it as well.
At least individually.
I went over to a game in August and when he done something good people cheered and encouraged him, when he messed up he was a “fenian cunt”, “paddy wanker” etc.
I really wanted to speak up but you could tell just by looking at these cunts they were proper scumbags probably dying for a fight.
Fair play to him calling out the FA, shower of hypocritical bastards. They love to push the who no discrimination thing but if it’s English on Irish it doesn’t seem to matter one bit. Cos they’re scum too.
It’s disgraceful that the Irish media would be up in arms if he made any type of pro republican statement and are so quick to highlight any racial injustices. But will allow sectarian abuse to continue even if he has highlighted it on numerous occasions, it just goes to show how taking the knee and all them “respect” campaigns are all rubbish.
Fucking wish our girls in green didn’t apologise to the Brits
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He’s dead right, he’ll continue to get sectarian abuse and the FA will do nothing about it and you better believe it won’t be highlighted by Sky Sports. Why won’t it be highlighted? Because it’s sectarian.
His picture in 2020 was indeed stupid, but he has been abused and abused and abused and abused. He is right to call out all of those footballing bodies who have done nothing and will continue to do nothing. Surprise surprise, the English media is conveniently silent on this one…
He’s white Irish therefore fair game, just utter garbage hypocrisy by the powers that run English football.
The extent of English respect for foreigners is directly proportional to the extent to which they are prepared to let their country be owned by England.
If James McClean was getting this abuse because he was black, or gay, or Muslim, or Welsh, it would be front page news and radio and television shows would be dedicated to discuss the matter. Questions would be asked in Parliament.
Anti-Irish hate is England’s hidden shame and it is never challenged.
UEFA and FIFA should never have allowed the poppy to be worn on shirts.
The outrageous girl’s singing grabs the attention, but this is fine.
Wonder if Sky News would ask the FA and those supporters the same question…
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/presenter-irish-football-team-education.amp
He wouldn’t sing God save the Queen.
McClean! McClean!
And the same arseholes doing that are the same ones whining about the Irish ladies singing a rebel song amongst themselves in the changing room!
Mackem bastards is all I have to say. They should have no pride on where they come from awful city
Mad idea but maybe McClean is riding the storm with another 3 or 4 years left in him to come home back to Ireland with enough money to secure himself a majority stake in Derry City.
He was always a target for loyalists and 6 counties ‘our wee country’ supporters, he’s a Catholic a nationalist and from Derry. ‘Our wee country’ supporters do have links to the British national front/BNP.
Its shocking nothing is ever done about the abuse he receives. All these campaigns they trot out every year and basically tell James to get on with it when its thrown his way.
Irish is a race. Anti Irish chants are racism. If it was monkey chants or thrown bananas the players would walk off and the match would be stopped. Rightly so.
When he retires he should sue the FA and document every single time he asked for help and was denied it.
Had this same talk with my Co-worker. They’ll open up and inquiry about those girls chanting but it would take someone shooting James McClean dead on the pitch before a finger is lifted.
The people complaining about the women’s team are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the people who abuse James. Just saying.
At a lecture a few weeks ago someone with a doctorate thought it was appropriate to mock my accent in front of almost 200 hundred other students. I wonder if it would be considered appropriate to attempt to copy the accent of any of the other students on the course?
Or more to the point, would any of the the others with a ‘non-English’ accent have been conditioned to accept mockery of their background and not complain to the university about it?
Thousands of people shouting abuse at one man for 8 years live on television and nothing happens, but a team of women sing the chorus of an IRA song in their dressing room and they’re humiliated on live TV. But apparently the Irish are the ones who need a history lesson. Spare me. That man deserves better.
The last acceptable form of racism is against the Irish…
The gas part is that the Irish women’s squad get investigated by the police and UEFA for singing a famous song by the Wolfe Tones, and we’re told to learn about history (the irony was hysterical), but they can abuse Irish people from a height on a weekly basis and it’s not an issue.
Don’t forget lads, sort by controversial.
They’re afraid to show the historical shame of the empire to their schoolchildren. Shame for robbing and plundering the colonies of the world, from Irish oak and potatoes etc. to sugar and rum from the Caribbean to spices and fabrics from the Indian subcontinent and so on. I’ll say nothing about stealing Australia from the native Australian People…….and the list goes on.
I find so many conversations with friends and family always coming back to the brits did this. It’s crazy the global deep seeded trauma that govt caused
I was treated really well in London, people were super sound, maybe even “too sound”..
Outside London, not so much, but a lot of England is a bit shite too, and the north outside of Liverpool and Manchester can be unfriendly territory to any Irish person.
OP you should crosspost this to /r/soccer – i tried to do it but wouldn’t work for some reason.
If he was from a different minority there would be outrage. Funny how selective organisations and people are.
Posted this last year. My brother was at a Wigan match. Spectators did the clap when players took the knee. Literally 10 seconds later James McClean gets the ball and cries of “fucking irish cunt” happened right in front of him. Within the first 5 minutes McClean was abused about 3 times. My brother went to a steward and said he didn’t feel safe. The stewards didn’t know what to do. Anyways, police and everyone got involved and after a lengthy process the fans were banned from the stadium.
The Wigan fans do it as well.
At least individually.
I went over to a game in August and when he done something good people cheered and encouraged him, when he messed up he was a “fenian cunt”, “paddy wanker” etc.
I really wanted to speak up but you could tell just by looking at these cunts they were proper scumbags probably dying for a fight.
Fair play to him calling out the FA, shower of hypocritical bastards. They love to push the who no discrimination thing but if it’s English on Irish it doesn’t seem to matter one bit. Cos they’re scum too.
It’s disgraceful that the Irish media would be up in arms if he made any type of pro republican statement and are so quick to highlight any racial injustices. But will allow sectarian abuse to continue even if he has highlighted it on numerous occasions, it just goes to show how taking the knee and all them “respect” campaigns are all rubbish.
Fucking wish our girls in green didn’t apologise to the Brits