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I have done, and that's why I have a problem with it. McClean's objection to the poppy is because, rightly or wrongly, he sees it as a glorification of the British Army and their actions including towards his fellow Northern Irish Catholics. His clubs have provided him with a poppyless kit but if they didn't and he wore it with "I Love The Pope" written over the poppy, I think people would see it as a sign he was saying it was an anti-Catholic symbol, was wearing it under duress and wanted to stick two fingers up at it. Not just "Aw, he's expressing his faith". As people have pointed out,. Guehi could have written "I LoveJesus" on his shirt, on his socks, on a t-shirt underneath his shirt, but he wrote it over the pride armband. As for "standing up for his beliefs" I think if he wanted to do that he should have said if the captain's armband has a pride flag on it, then I'll turn down the honour of being captain, and take whatever career implications go with it. I'm reminded of people claiming Djokovic was willing to sacrifice to stand up for his antivax beliefs. Not by refusing to compete in tournaments that mandated vaccines and accepting the loss of honours and prize money, oh no, but by having a dodgy Slovakian doctor forge a note claiming he'd recently had covid and was therefore exempt from the vaccination rules so he could compete anyway .

What have Jesus and the pride flag got to do with each other?

Maybe instead of refusing to wear a poppy, James McClean could scribble "I ❤️ the Pope" over it.

Should have guessed Spurs would do the Spursiest thing ever and follow up their home defeat to Ipswich with a hammering of City at the Etihad. Same amount of points on my bench as on the fucking pitch

Apparently there were two West Ham podcasters/influencers/YouTubers/wankers whatever they're called filming for their channel at the front of the Leazes stand, giving it large (in exaggerated influencer style) after their goals and then turning around to glower at people for ruining their shots when they kept getting pinged on the back of the head with the rubber bands from the ISAK display flags or called names. Not sure if anyone's seen anything about that or knows what channel it was, I'm sure it'll be very selectively edited though to make them look less wet.

Can tell he was born in London, having to wrap up like that to come to Toon

There's pictures of him as a bairn in toon tops and toon training gear, it's desperate stuff.

Cursed Chris Wood by putting him in my Fantasy team, you're welcome.

When was it they became Sundrawland for ages? That's their third in a row

My mum's reply

Someone in my group chat beat you to that one

Just passed John Terry and his missus taking a selfie on a zebra crossing next to the Louvre.

Looks like this place on Chilly Road and not SJP at all. Tedious engagement bait

I just be in the wrong stand, never seen anything even resembling this

Tore them a

Aye, that was great. Lad had Willock 28 on his back.

Ah, well spotted. I thought Anton Du Bek hadn't played for Barca.

Yeah, I can only apologise.

Any guesses who the fuck this is meant to be?

A classic that popped up on my Facebook memories today

Should have 'Mags have scored, parsnip this shit" as the official board motto.