McClean accuses FA of ignoring sectarian abuse

James McClean has accused English football authorities of turning a blind eye to what he says is "eight years of sickening abuse" over his nationality.

The Republic of Ireland international claimed that he was the target of sectarian abuse during Wigan Athletic's 2-1 defeat away to Sunderland on Sunday and he called on the English football authorities to take action.

Footage shared on social media appears to show Sunderland supporters targeting McClean with sectarian chants, but McClean is not hopeful that either the FA or Sunderland will address the issues.

Writing on Instagram, the Derryman shared some footage of the Sunderland chants which were filmed by a local journalist and said that he recieved anti-Irish abuse throughout the game.

In his post, McClean wrote: "For my son, who is seven years old and watches every Wigan game - either being at stadium or on Latics TV - to be asking his mother, 'why are they booing and singing that song at Daddy?' And to have to tip toe around answering him is something which should not be happening.

"This post is not one for sympathy [trust me, it is not wanted] but one of anger. Considering every single year we have an FA representative come into each club to discuss the same old crap they spew to us about discrimination. Every single year, I challenge them on the abuse. Every single year, they do nothing.

"This clip is one [from] yesterday, which can be heard clearly of one particular chant, as well as other chants of 'f**k the pope and IRA’, being sung by the majority of the 30k crowd, as well as numerous individual chants of 'fenian bastard, fenian c**t', 'you dirty Irish c**t'.

"[This was] while displaying a tribute before game honouring Niall Quinn, who is also the same nationality as