Thoughts on this?

[weasel]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/premier-league-mcclean-opts-poppy-tribute-150615555.html

I've got be honest and admit i have very little time for this little judas ****. I appreciate that republicans like him see the poppy as sign of supporting the british army rather than as a sign of respect for those who died in both WW's, and sadly they seem to gloss over the fact that thousands upon thousands of irish/northern irish catholics signed up, fought and died protecting all our freedoms. And, also that whilst the British army may nt have been angels in the history of both parts of my island, they are a wee tad nicer than what the nazi's would have done.

Sad to see someone bring politics into something like that.

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

That disgusts me What a **** :roll: but he is a good player :|

 

[Grant_C]

What an idiot.

The popy isn'y just British soldiers, it soldiers from many countries and is a symbol of scarfice.

There was an Islamic group that were burning poppies a few years ago. Obviously ignoring the thousands of pakistani, malaysian and north African musilms that died under that poppy.

Ignorance...

 

[Jez]

Words fail me sometimes.

But for every idiot, there are a bunch of people trying to make the world a better place

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loveforallhatredfornone.org%2Fportfolio-item%2Fpoppy-selling-campaign-branches-nationwide%2F&ei=ihGgUN4WyYiFB5b5gagF&usg=AFQjCNEbDRBqCUT-T1KD6NSAUtcr1fT05A&sig2=tb5_G3U8CGE-uhUqkgY9IQ

 

[weasel]

Fair play to them!

 

[PGowdy]

My grandad who was from N Ireland would have a thing or 2 to say to the little prick. Someone of his age can have no idea what it must have been like to have been on our isles back then when Irish, Scottish, English, Welsh, Americans, French and so on all put aside what ever other petty differences they may have and fought together against one of histories greatest evils. Fighting a fight they had to fight so we could all be here today. If you are in any way in support of what the Nazis did and what they stood for and like to think you wouldn't have been one of the thousands of Northern Irish soldiers to join the fight then i guess you shouldn't wear the poppy.
I don't consider myself particularly patriotic. I've always found blind patriotism to be an ignorant and misguided thing to be driven by and can often lead to ugly attitudes and behaviour (being perfectly portrayed here) but i find it difficult to justify taking any form of moral stand against those who fought and died in the war. A war, for once (and possibly the last time in our history), in which we can undoubtedly say we were fighting on the side of right.
Shame on him.

 

[itfciain]

ha ha - I had a right old arguement about this on the Ipswich Town board - and pretty much lost as well (I am Yorkshire)

http://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/244187/page:1

For what it is worth, I think he is a disgrace - what he did was disrespectful. I appreciate the irony in the fact that the very people who died did so to protect freedom of expression but just think his actions are a slap in the face to those people

 

[Grant_C]

Exactly. 8)

 

[Frunkstar]

I think Pete pretty much nailed it, I can not see how someone can be so disrespectful to both the dead & what all those who fell stand for.

I don't give to charity as a rule as most of us know 99% never gets to where it is supposed to be, but the one thing I always do & with pride is wear my popy.

I feel what he has done is at bear minimum an ill considered gesture & one that will not win him any favour & will also send out the wrong message, if he did not want to wear it & with pride, maybe another player should have been substituted in his place.

& as for that lot that were burning popys - ****ing burn or bloody well deport them!

 

[PGowdy]

ha ha - I had a right old arguement about this on the Ipswich Town board - and pretty much lost as well (I am Yorkshire)

http://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/244187/page:1
For what it is worth, I think he is a disgrace - what he did was disrespectful. I appreciate the irony in the fact that the very people who died did so to protect freedom of expression but just think his actions are a slap in the face to those people

And let me just be clear, i wasn't suggesting he should be forced to wear a poppy. I don't think anyone should.
I fully support the right to be ignorant and stupid. It doesn't mean i have to support those being ignorant and stupid. There is a very important difference.

 

[2stripes]

Fully appreciate republican desire to remember those that have lost their life under British rule, this however is an empty foolish gesture. Refusing a simple act of remembrance for those fallen from all allied forces in foreign wars? Maybe the fact that he represented Northern Ireland at youth level means he feels he has something to prove I don't know. If he is that commited a republican maybe he shouldn't be playing for an English football team earning tens of thousand pounds a week and go and play semi pro in Ireland, or does his intrgrity only stretch as far as the price of a paper poppy?