Irish football player James McClean refuses to wear shirt with poppy in Wigan v Bolton game because 'it has come to mean something very different'

Republic of Ireland international James McClean, right, said he could not wear a poppy as it represented troops involved in conflicts since World War II such as the Northern Ireland troubles. In an open letter to Wigan club chairman Dave Whelan, McClean, right, said he, as someone from Derry, could not wear a poppy after the shooting dead of unarmed civil rights protesters in his home city in January 1972, left.