Sarge
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If he doesn’t want to wear one, or anyone else then why should he/they? Wearing one because you are forced to is not showing respect is it.
Always found McCleans attitude to the UK a bit hypocritical though, plenty of teams around the world he could play for rather than ply his trade in a country he obviously has a problem with, I suppose everyone has their price though.
If he doesn’t want to wear one, or anyone else then why should he/they? Wearing one because you are forced to is not showing respect is it.
Always found McCleans attitude to the UK a bit hypocritical though, plenty of teams around the world he could play for rather than ply his trade in a country he obviously has a problem with, I suppose everyone has their price though.
He was born in the UK, so why shouldn't he ply his trade here?
People inflicting their own moral standards on others is almost as bad as displaying moral outrage about the wearing or non-wearing of a poppy.
My father served in Burma in WW2. I will wear a poppy and stand in silence at our local cenotaph with hundreds of others.
If McClean - or anyone else - has their own political beliefs that manifests itself in a determination not to commemorate British war dead, that's fine by me. Seems some people actually object to another holding a different belief to them. That's a step on the slippery slope to extreme intolerance.
However true Pate, he would be well advised not saying things like that about the clubs own supporters.Quite. Many people support his right to not wear a poppy. Surely the best way to treat the boo boys is to ignore them?
(Two caveats though: it's not always easy to ignore people's views on this forum so I understand his frustration, and McClean is probably accurate in his description of some Stoke fans).