[Lord Snooty]

Looks like a bit of bother on it's way. The FA have asked Town for their observations over the bottle thrown at McClean.

[EastLondonTerrier]

Those fans whoever they are disgrace the club. And the people apologising for it or trying to justify it because he tried to take a chunk out of Tom Ince is poor show.

[Lord Snooty]

Agreed, ELT. What I object to is the way the Examiner have been stirring this up all week. Nobody was bothered about him not wearing a poppy until they printed the story. And they kept it going all week, winding folk up on Facebook.
No surprise really when it happened and now not only is the reputation of the best fans in the Premier League under threat but we could get a huge fine or even parts of the ground closed. Doubt it'll go that far though.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

I don't want fans like that at Town. Find them and ban them.

[EastLondonTerrier]

It's because our fan-base is very patriotic and a small number fall into this politicisation of the poppy that's happened in the last 5-10 years. The working class UKIPPERS/Brexiteers. Every year it's the same crap, "the poppy is becoming extinct, make sure our heritage and soldiers are honoured". THEY ARE ALREADY. Making people feel bad about not wearing it for 3 straight weeks does my nut in. It's cretinous journos at the examiner as their way of stirring up some good old fashioned nativism. Because that's not an entirely dangerous thing in the Huddersfield area in recent history. Shame on them. Seen people call James McClean IRA supporting!!

What is that based on? British soldiers killed a lot of innocent Irish on bloody sunday. If they don't want to wear it, I'm not going to make a song and dance about it.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

I don't really care why they did it. They just shouldn't. No justification. Not acceptable.

[Terrier1987cas]

The bottle throwers should be banned for life. Some folk were after McClean's blood from the off - uneducated cretins. I heard a bloke in the rope walk before the game effectively saying 'if he wants to work in our country he should be forced to wear our poppy or go home' - FFS. If people look into his reasoning he 100% has the right to not wear a poppy. Once he made the bad challenge on Ince he became fair game and people went way too far, there's no excuse for it and the less than 1% who do things like that take away from the amazing support the other 99% give.

I haven't read the thread so apologies if I've just repeated someone's point.

[Lord Snooty]

The thing is, you can't force anybody to wear a poppy. So he couldn't actually "refuse" to wear one. He opted not to wear one through the freedom of choice that soldiers over the years fought to defend.
The bleedin Examiner have been putting up inflammatory headlines all week and now they're at it again saying that McClean was "attacked".
Knobheads!

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And another thing. How many of those booing him were wearing poppies? The British Legion collected £1750 at the match. Not bad, but when you break it down that's about 7 pence each out of the 24,000 crowd.

[WakeyTerrier]

I don't wear a poppy, I've no particular reason as to why I don't..I just don't.

[talkSAFT]

These TV "Celebs" who can't wait to show off their poppies (in mid-October) get on my tits.
I always buy one, but I don't bother wearing it; can't be arsed to stick the pin in carefully(!)