James McLean - only player in the Premier League who refused to wear a poppy today

[EFCNIK]

I really wanna see the 'free speech' whatever brigade have a go at the OP.

No popcorn. Just honestly try and fault it.

 

[Tubey]

The only reason this thread is still alive is because it's in World Football ^^

 

[BoysInBlue]

Didn't the British government sign a Good Friday agreement in 1999 to end all this tit-for-tat ****e?

Not wearing a poppy isn't entering into the spirit of 'putting history behind us'.

 

[BoysInBlue]

The only reason this thread is still alive is because it's in World Football ^^

This website has a poppy on the logo. I've no idea why this thread would be closed.

It's a valid news story that will be all over the papers tomorrow.

I know some people are anti-army and anti-war, I get that, but this is about remembering the dead. Refusing to wear one like those three did is just disrespectful. If you're Sunderland fan in the army, I'd imagine you'd be disappointed.

 

[kenada_blue]

He soon swerved playing for Northern Ireland for the Republic though, didnt he?

 

[EFCNIK]

Thomas Hitzlsperger wore one.

 

[noharmdone]

This website has a poppy on the logo. I've no idea why this thread would be closed.

It's a valid news story that will be all over the papers tomorrow.

I know some people are anti-army and anti-war, I get that, but this is about remembering the dead. Refusing to wear one like those three did is just disrespectful. If you're Sunderland fan in the army, I'd imagine you'd be disappointed.

Shout that by the way..

 

[BoysInBlue]

Seamus Coleman is Irish and had no problem wearing a poppy.

 

[EFCNIK]

Ha! It gets better.

The tits actually Northern Irish.

What a prized ****.

 

[Muggins]

Politics / religion.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

For what it's worth, I don't think people should be obliged to wear one. This kinda sums up my feelings on it

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...know-that-they-mock-the-war-dead-6257416.html

The first world war, after which the poppy was started, was such a barbaric waste of life it's hard to even contemplate the industrial scale of the massacres that took place each day.

I despise how those in power can dare to wear the things whilst they continue sending people to war over such small things, just as they did back then. The whole thing should be a source of national shame rather than the petty one-upmanship it is today.