James McClean spoke out for the first time since refusing to stand with his Wrexham teammates during the Remembrance silence.
James McClean spoke out for the first time since refusing to stand with his Wrexham teammates during the Remembrance silence, originally from Derry, Northern Ireland , has refused to take part in Remembrance commemorations since moving to England to play for Sunderland 13 years ago.has long stressed that he refuses to observe traditions due to Britain's role in The Troubles. He grey up in the Creggan estate in Derry, where six of the people killed on Bloody Sunday in 1972 were from.
“That is why I never have and never will wear a poppy. If the poppy’s sole purpose was to honour world war 1 and 2 then I would have no issue wearing it, but that's not the case. ‘hates our country’ well I don’t, some of my best relationships I’ve made through the years are with people born and raised in England and have completely different beliefs to me.
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