Cyrus Christie left in tears after death threat and racial abuse on twitter

Cyrus Christie was the victim of disgusting racist abuse on Twitter in the wake of the Republic of Ireland's 5-1 defeat to Denmark.

The FAI reported the incident to Gardai after the World Cup play-off defeat.

Speaking at the PFAI awards on Saturday night, James McClean spoke of his disgust at the abuse his teammate received:

“We spoke afterwards and it really got to a few players. Everybody watched the game and it was poor, we know that.

“But some of the comments afterwards, which my Instagram post was about, went beyond football. One player in particular was told to go and play for Jamaica. Make of that what you want.

 

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 a 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 of so many times before an just like before we will bounce back! 🇮🇪

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“It really upset him. My comments weren’t based on football, they were more personal. That’s for a player who has been a good servant to his country and it cut deep.

“That player was in tears, by the way. You’ve just missed out on the World Cup and then to have that.”

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