All but one player stood during the minute of silence.
After the match between Huddersfield and Wigan, pictures of the visiting team player James McClain spread.
“This guy is a legend”writes professional boxer Declan Geraghty.
Ireland’s James McClean, 33, was often noticed for reasons other than football during his time in the Premier League and the Championship.
McClain currently belongs to Wigan and his team faced Huddersfield away on Tuesday night.
During the minute of silence that took place in honor of the late Queen Elizabeth II before the game, McClain chose to stand his distance from his teammates who were holding hands.
refuse to participate
Regarding the pictures shown on TV, Irish professional boxer Declan Geraghty posted a picture on Instagram and wrote, “This guy is a legend.”
After the match, James McClain also confirmed that the distance between his teammates was conscious when he himself posted the boxer’s photo on Instagram.
The interpretation of the images seems to lie in the background of James McClain.
On several occasions, McClain refused to wear the poppy plant on the match shirt for “Memorial Day”, a holiday that in England became a day of remembrance for people who died in the First and Second World Wars.
talk about poppies
MacLean previously said he did not want to wear the poppy because he believed it was also used to draw attention to conflicts such as “Bloody Sunday”, when 13 civilian protesters from Northern Ireland were shot dead by British soldiers in Derry, where he himself was born.
“For people from Northern Ireland, like me, and especially those in Derry – the scene of the massacre, the poppy has come to mean something completely different.”McClain previously wrote on social media.
MacLean also made headlines during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020 when he posted a photo of himself – wearing a thief’s hat used by the Irish Army during the Irish War of Independence – to give his children a history lesson.
