Footballer James McClean has received a shocking sectarian and race hate-filled birthday card telling him to 'die' whilst also boasting about Bloody Sunday.
The Stoke City star received the card which refers to him as a 'Fenian sub-human b*****d' via his team's training ground on Tuesday.
Posting the images of the card on Twitter, the winger simply wrote: "No words needed."
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His wife Erin also shared images of the front and back of the card on social media calling those behind it 'sickos', but said the contents within the card were too bad to publish.
She wrote on Instagram: "So james got a bday card sent to the training ground today. How thoughtful the hatred in that. Can’t even show the inside it’s that bad. Sickos."
On the front the birthday card it tells the Derry man to 'die on April 22' which is the 30-year-old's birthday.
The father-of-three has been lambasted in recent years for refusing to wear a poppy to mark Remembrance Sunday, and the winger has previously outlined his reasons for not doing so, mainly due to the Bloody Sunday massacre in his home city in 1972.
In a letter back in 2014 while McClean was playing for Wigan he explained: "For me to wear a poppy would be as much a gesture of disrespect for the innocent people who lost their lives in the Troubles – and Bloody Sunday especially – as I have in the past been accused of disrespecting the victims of WWI and WWII.
"It would be seen as an act of disrespect to those people; to my people."
The writing on back of the card also boasts about the death toll of Bloody Sunday referring to it as a 'bloody good laugh' as well as referring to Irish people as 'parasites'.
It reads: "Will do anything for poxy Ireland, except live in that sh**hole. The Irish are a race of inbred, subhuman parasites breed like maggots.
"Bloody Sunday- bloody good laugh. 13.Nil to us. Ha, Ha, Ha Ha. Should have been 13,000 of you sub human b****ards."
The inside of the card, makes reference to Bobby Sands, Hilter and the IRA before calling the Republic of Ireland star a 'two-faced hypocritical b*****d'.
Fans have been posting messages of support to the footballer and his family with many calling it 'sick' and 'pathetic'.
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