FA acts after objects thrown by Town fans

West Brom player James McClean and Town’s Tom Ince tussle for the ball in Saturday’s match at the John Smith’s Stadium. It was McClean’s foul on Ince which provoked a reaction from home fans at him. Having said all that we have to ban people who throw objects.

“This is not acceptable. He has the right to not wear a poppy, people died to guarantee his right to free speech and political freedom.

“He must accept that others are entitled to protest, without violence, towards him.”

Huddersfield Town have been asked to comment on what happened.

McClean, who is from Derry, Northern Ireland and plays for the Republic of Ireland, has refused to wear the traditional Remembrance Day poppy on his shirt each and every year since first moving to England to join Sunderland in 2011.

He grew up on the Creggan estate, where six of the people killed on Bloody Sunday in 1972 came from. On that day British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march.

Two years ago in 2015, he explained his reasons in the West Brom matchday programme saying: “If the poppy was simply about World War One and Two victims alone, I’d wear it without a problem.

“I would wear it every day of the year if that was the thing but it doesn’t.

“It stands for all the conflicts that Britain has been involved in. Because of the history where I come from in Derry, I cannot wear something that represents that.”