McLean on Pearson

[paddysr]

Yet again a thread about McClean that ends up full of historical inaccuracies. It was the UDA/UVF that started all the killings but they fly the British flag so everybody forgets about that.

 

[Joanpne]

Aye well McLean still should have had a red card even if he wasn’t as naughty as his ancestors obviously were.

 

[paddysr]

Aye well McLean still should have had a red card even if he wasn’t as naughty as his ancestors obviously were.

Should have been sent off on both games

 

[Walton]

History is history and can’t be changed, it’s what we do going forward that matters, if people are going to keep instilling hatred into their kids there will never be an end to the killing and violence, sadly we look a long way off this.

 

[bigtallsi]

Yet again a thread about McClean that ends up full of historical inaccuracies. It was the UDA/UVF that started all the killings but they fly the British flag so everybody forgets about that.

Which were the ones they started?

 

[Jack Daniels]

The question I ask is "How far do you have to go back? Do we hate The Danes for their past misdemeanours?".

In simple terms, as a society, both Sinned Against and Sinners, draw a line and everyone move the fuck on.

You'd think this bloody virus would rattle a few heads into reality, not linger onto things 100 years in the past, etc.

 

[pne1881]

Yet again a thread about McClean that ends up full of historical inaccuracies. It was the UDA/UVF that started all the killings but they fly the British flag so everybody forgets about that.

Doesn't alter the fact that he's an utter bell end.

Takes any opportunity to publicise his beliefs & make his feelings known on the crown etc yet is quite happy to live over here & get paid thousands of pounds a week to do so.

Hypocrisy of the highest order.

 

[keasden]

As he clearly hates the British so much why doesn't he just fuck off back to Ireland and play there? Oh yes, money.

 

[Marcus Lawrenso]

No doubt he will be asking the referee to stop the game when he's next booed. I wonder in his kids history lesson, he has airbrushed out the parts where hundreds of innocent men women and children were blown to pieces and how kids as young as 12 were recruited to the cause.

Agree - because the history is pretty complicated ? going back years , I doubt if he could explain all the nuances

When I was at Uni - the senior lecturer made a good point re The Good Friday Agreement about the people there being under siege and / or under siege from within ..........or just plain sick of it all !

that's not to say everything was happy ever or there after - because it wasn't

In a seminar discussion , a mate of mine sarcastically said Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts are just Hollywood actors not figures from history re the Michael Collins film and ' The Freedom Fighters ' brigade

He'd been in the Army and was a RAF Reservist - his view was that the Northern Irish kept him in work .............as long as you could stay alive !

my landlady in Reading was from Belfast - she'd moved as she was sick of it all too - at one of the next places I lived in , there was a guy called Malcolm , he'd been in the army too and had , had a massive nervous breakdown