Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.
Probably because nationalists fear the much deadlier migrants from the UK who have killed and burned people out of their homes for a very long time now.
The news this morning is so fucking grim. An absolutely shameful morning for Northern Ireland. We all saw the text messages flying about before the protests. We all knew this was coming and somehow, because the lads involved have weapons, it all happened anyway.