James McClean hasn't got any calls from his Ireland teammates after he hit out at the lack of support he received for abuse during his career.
The Boys in Green winger has doubled down on his comments made earlier this week, suggesting some Irish players 'pick and choose' what they support and that some 'want an easy life'.
The 31-year-old blasted football authorities and his teammates in a social media post on Monday, questioning why he hasn't received support to the same scale as Ireland teammate David McGoldrick and Wilfred Zaha - who were both subject to racist abuse last weekend.
The Derry native has been subjected to abuse on many occasions during his career, often over his refusal to wear a poppy during the annual remembrance period every autumn.
McClean says he understands why his Irish teammates don't refuse to wear a poppy, but is 'hurt' by the lack of support he's received for the abuse he's suffered.
"I'm not expecting calls, but I stand by what I said," McClean told BBC Radio this morning.
"I understand the whole poppy situation. I know some people down south probably don't have a full understanding of what happened up in the north and that's fine.
"I'm not asking players not to wear a poppy because the backlash, that's huge. I've never asked anyone to do that.
"I fully understand that they don't want the backlash and they want an easy life.
"What I'm getting discriminated for also affects them, so to see them posting other stuff while what I'm getting discriminated for has more relevance to them - but yet they stay quiet.
"As much as I respect everything else, you can't pick and choose what they get behind, that's where I lose that respect.
"I like every one of them (Ireland teammates), I've never had an issue with them, but it does hurt a little bit because I know for a fact if it's one of my teammates, (and the) role's reversed, I would 100 percent back them."
But the Stoke star claims that the reaction to his comments has been largely 'positive', adding that he thinks he should've came out sooner.
He added: "It makes me wonder why I didn't kick up a bigger fuss previously.
"This has been going on nine years and the last few days have been positive.
"I'm not naïve enough to think that it's just going to stop but it seems to be a start.
"Last night there was a steward at the Bristol City game. I'd never met this guy before and he was very complimentary. He came over and said that he'd listened to the interview and he said that he didn't know what was going on. He praised me for speaking out."
