After what happened in England with the imbecile that tweeted racial abuse while revelling in Fabrice Muamba's collapse, I would hope that the Northern Irish authorities can act in a similar manner and ensure that these two are also traced. It would be quite a failure on their behalf if they fail to do so and wouldn't reflect well on their anti-sectarianism work.
Martin O'Neill suggested in an interview that maybe McClean should stop tweeting, I think this incident serves to justify his suggestion. Prior to this it was silly arguments with morons wishing McClean injury etc. Death threats are a new level.
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I never mentioned anything about him apologising for anything.
I was responding to Charlie Darwin saying that he clearly doesn't care about the twitter abuse. I disagree - I think him just not acknowledging them in any way would suggest he didn't care about them rather than responding with what he did.
Agreed on what should happen to those making the sickening comments though. Some lad was convicted of racism for comments on Twitter (I think it was twitter) about Muamba after his collapse recently, so there is some kind of precedent there.
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If I was a manager there's no way in the world I'd allow my players to have twitter accounts. Apologies if this was mentioned previously (very likely) but I was watching Soccer AM a few weeks back and they had that Q&A session with two Sunderland players, David Meyler and Frazier Campbell. They were asked who is their thickest team-mate? They both just looked at each other and in full agreement said James McClean! Meyler said he's the most dim man he's ever met. Funnily enough, when they were asked who the most intelligent is, they reluctantly admitted that it had to be John O'Shea. A bit beside the point but I would fear that McClean is only making trouble for himself by tweeting.
That comment could also have been as part of what Meyler considers banter. I've seen him refer to McClean as "ugly" a number of times on twitter too. Meyler also associates himself with the Geordie Shore crew, such are his conscious attempts to ensure he remains in a high-intellect social environment.
Whether it's serious or not, doesn't or shouldn't come into it.
We were constantly reminded that the death threats against Lennon and his family were not serious and were the work of a nutter with a 10p coin. Nevertheless, it was the threats against his family in particular that finally inspired Lennon to retire from the NI team. No police intelligence could say to Lennon with any authority whether the threats were serious or not.
As long as racist minded individuals can raise their heads out of an ethnically cynical/bigoted NI fan mindset, you can never tell what other morons there, may feel they have a licence to say or do.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Well yeah it's childish and he does taunt these morons sometimes, I just don't think the threats bother him.
Closed his twitter account. Good decision.
Probably a good idea to close it, I think twitter is rubbish anyway.
I don't follow anyone really, well I have and account and follow a few people but I never log on to it
as it basically a load of rubbish.
Does Trap tweet? lol.
I know, I know... I haven't quoted from my other favourite forum in a while - and apologies for touching on the eligibility issue for those who don't like it raised in the McClean thread - but there's been some great material since the latest media storm rose and this should at least humour you:
(Where's the fell-off-chair emoticon?)Originally Posted by NI fan
Last edited by DannyInvincible; 08/05/2012 at 8:58 PM.
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