James McClean has responded quickly to the FA investigating his reaction to the abuse he received on Saturday by comparing his treatment to the Anti-Irish racism that Neil Lennon receives in Scotland.
Sections of English society are being whipped into a frenzy as poppy-mania makes it’s annual appearance.
Rather than pay respect in a solemn fashion football clubs are being used as a focus for national fervour while the government pays lip service to the suffering and trauma that many ex-servicemen go through.
Adding poppies to every area of football seems to be the order of the day with McClean the target for poppy fanatics.
Taking to Instagram he fired back stating: “The FA are investigating me after Saturday’s game, for what exactly?
“Yet week in week out for the past seven years I get constant sectarian abuse, death threats, objects being thrown, chanting which is heard loud and clear every week which my family, wife and kids have to listen to.
“They turn a blind eye and not a single word or condemnation of any sort.
“Huddesfield away last year while playing for West Brom where there was an incident with their fans which was on the game highlights, where the cameras clearly caught it, yet the FA when [a] complaint was made to them said there ‘was not enough evidence’.
“If it was a person’s skin colour or if it was anti-Muslim, someone’s gender, there would be an uproar and it would be taken in a completely different way and dealt with in a different manner.
“But like in Neil Lennon’s case in Scotland, because we are Irish catholics, they turn a blind eye and nothing is ever said and done.”