Football news - James McClean hits out at claims FA are investigating weekend 'cavemen' post

It has been claimed McClean could face FA disciplinary action after describing a section of Stoke's fans as "uneducated cavemen".

"The FA are investigating me after Saturday’s event – for what, exactly?" said McClean in his latest Instagram post.

“Yet week in, week out for the past seven years, I get constant sectarian abuse, death threats, objects being thrown, chanting which is heard loud and clear every week which my family, wife and kids have to listen to, they turn a blind eye and not a single word or condemnation of any sort.

"Huddersfield away last year while playing (for) West Brom where there was an incident with their fans which was on the game highlights where the cameras clearly caught it, yet the FA when complaint was made to them said there ‘was not enough evidence’.

"If it was a person’s skin colour or if it was anti-Muslim, someone’s gender, there would be an uproar and it would be taken in a completely different way and dealt with in a different manner.

“But like in Neil Lennon’s case in Scotland (who was hit by a coin during the Edinburgh derby at Tynecastle last week), because we are Irish Catholics, they turn a blind eye and nothing is ever said and done."

The FA and Stoke are apparently investigating McClean's comments on social media over the weekend, according to the BBC.

McClean was verbally abused by a section of the home fans on Saturday during the 0-0 draw with Middlesbrough for refusing to wear a Remembrance Day poppy on his shirt.

McClean later took to social media after the match, posting on Instagram: "to the section of uneducated cavemen in left hand corner of the boothen end stand that want to song their anti irish song each game and call me a fenian this and that

"..your abuse, your throwing things, your booing, do your worst".

He will also opt out of wearing a poppy when Stoke visit Nottingham Forest this weekend.

The Ireland winger has refused to wear poppies at previous clubs Sunderland, Wigan and West Bromwich Albion. 29-year-old McClean is a native of Derry, Northern Ireland, site of Bloody Sunday in 1972.