It was tough for James McClean to find the words immediately following Ireland's hammering by Denmark on Tuesday evening. Speaking to Tony O'Donoghue on the pitch after the final whistle, beyond conceding that the Danes had been the better side, an emotional McClean was unable to gather his thoughts.
This morning, McClean has found some words. In a post on his Instagram account, he admitted that the Irish performance did not reach a sufficient level of quality but also highlighted what he believes are some "bang out of order" comments regarding players and staff.
McClean did not go into specifics about who had made the comments to which he refers.
Last night is going to hurt deep for a long long time, nothing can change or make what happend last night right, of course everyone is entitled to voice their opinion because it was simply not good enough from us on the night, we know that ourselves, but to stick the boot in and kick players and staff when they are down ( players and staff have been great servants to this country, players and staff that have qualified for a major tournament and was unlucky to be knocked out to a great team in the last 16, players and staff that was one game from making it to a world cup, players and staff that would give anything for this great country! ) with some over the top beyond football comments is bang out of order, hurting or not and trust me when a say this we hurt every bit as much as you do.. I am proud and honoured to be an Irish man and to call everyone of these men fellow country men and team mates! Like a said this will hurt deep, we have been written off so many times before an just like before we will bounce back!
