It would be bizarre if mcclean was to wear a poppy. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an utter simpleton, a bigot or an imperialist.
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Where the fuck would you have been without John Bull to bail ya out, back with your 4 tv channels pulling cowsâ tits for a living and you wonât wear a poppy you ungrateful simpleton.
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Ah thatâs a lovely post. 
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Iâm not upset by it at all. Couldnât give a fuck. I admire his decision not to wear the poppy, but really, so what? Itâs not the heroic act of single handed defiance that the simpletons on either side seem to believe. That vast majority of the UK public have never heard of him, and simply donât care whether he, or anyone else wears a poppy or doesnât. More donât wear one than do. Many are aware it has been hijacked. Some choose to wear it anyway. I donât. Most donât care about ww1 tbh. Itâs something to fill newspaper space now that the media canât hack millie dowlers phone anymore to create a headline. It is not some grand act of defiance, and if he feels he is such a fenian rebel, he should move back to play on the LOI. The reason he doesnât? Money. Simply money. He is cash redeemable, like the huge swathe of informers within the ranks of the Ira it seems.
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You seem to be very upset by this whole affair.
ironically heâd have faster broadband 
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The Brits are fierce fussy over lapel adornmentds.
Pep Guardiola got a fine and told he couldnât wear his Catalonia one during games.
McClean is widely derided for not wearing one during games.
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That farce of a Catalan vote was an illegal referendum called for by a bunch of rabble rousers in breach of the Spanish constitution of 1978 (a constitution that was adopted overwhelmingly by voters in Catalonia). Guardiola was quite correctly fined for his display of petulance there.
Youâre conflating different things there, mate.
His work is his work.
You seem to be arguing that he should play football in a different country because heâs not willing to be coerced into publicly supporting the british army.
Iâm not too gone on the FCA but I donât want to leave Ireland.
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Nail on the head. Heâs a no mark in the UK. A second tier journeyman soccer player.
I suppose he is box office among Eire soccer types. The 2017 Eire sportstar of the year winner on the back of scoring a goal in a play off to get into a play off at a time when he couldnât get a game for the bottom side in the EPL.
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Whatâs your problem with the FCA?
Remember when the American Glasgow Rangers player was booed in Landsdowne road.
I donât but I remember the Danish soccer player who was booed at Lansdowne Road and he didnât play for Glasgow Rangers .
You seem to be wilfully misinterpreting my posts just to start an argument, and then throw in your scorn for our defence forces, the people who man the red lines because you canât handle the truth, just in case I donât rise to it, in the hope that some simpleton who doesnât realise what you are at responds, as a kind of security net.
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Huh?
Donât recall that to be honest, but I wouldnât be following Eire soccer. I do recall an American Glasgow Rangers player, Claudio Reyna who was taunted by some scummy Glasgow Celtic fan about 9/11 a few weeks after it happened.
That sentence is too messy.
I know. Im ashamed of it.
The FCA man the red lines?
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Pep Guardiola was fined because it is against Fifa regulations to wear a political symbol during a football match.
He is not allowed to wear it during Premier League games. He is allowed to wear it during Uefa Champions League games.
It seems you are allowed to wear political symbols in the Premier League if they are palatable to the governing body. Whatâs more if you donât wear one, you are derided.
Englandâs players will not be allowed to wear poppyâs in the upcoming internationals
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