Our message, visible on the banners raised around the pitch, was for a Free Palestine and the end of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The Mohammed Barakat cup: Solidarity through football
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Our message, visible on the banners raised around the pitch, was for a Free Palestine and the end of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
For those of us who love football we are well aware of the sad history of bigotry that unfortunately runs alongside the beautiful game. As with most sports a certain amount of macho behaviour is not unexpected and with it seems to come racism and homophobia. While most high profile instances of recorded bigotry come
This is an interview that originally appeared in Polish in issue #1 of antifascist magazine Alerta, and recently it was translated to English by 161 Crew. While the interview took place in 2017, and there were a lot of political developments since then, we thought to re-post it as an excellent source of antifascist history
Clapton Football Club Limited, the community benefit society behind Clapton Community Football Club, today became the proud new owners of the Old Spotted Dog ground. Kevin Blowe from The Old Spotted Dog Trust said: “For the first time ever, the oldest senior football ground in London is owned by a football club, and a member-run,
This text was contributed by a fan of Hapoel Katamon: Israel’s first fan owned football club located in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Jerusalem. The club is known for their supporters’ activism and community projects. Where I grew up in Jerusalem I was faced with very little choices, either you are a fan of
Most football clubs start as grassroots clubs. Man City and Celtic were founded by churches. Man Utd and Arsenal were works team. Across the UK, and the World, almost all football clubs are grassroots clubs, run for the love of football, scraping money together, knowing they and or their players will never hit the big
Women have always been systematically discriminated against by the football authorities, for simply wanting to play football. The English FA, a bastion of bourgeois conservatism, banned women playing on any ground affiliated to the FA in 1921, voting that “the game of football [is] quite unsuitable for females” a ban that lasted till 1971. Women’s