Stoke City's James McClean also called out the anti-Irish abuse he receives regularly on social media. What a great step forward that would be if social media companies wanted to do that. "We need social media companies to understand how they help solve this problem. We've seen football say, 'look we're switching off the lights on social media for three/four days to challenge racism in different forms'. "There's not been a point or a pound fined for any club for sectarianism, for anti-Irish abuse, or anti-Protestant abuse - it's never happened.

Source: Sky sports May 20, 2021 07:18 UTC