Tag Archives: Football
News in brief
A quick look around the news of the day Free the Preston One! Football The plight of the football mascot – those who dress up in costume to cheer on the team and entertain the crowds at half time – has come into sharp focus as Captain Blade (Sheffield United’s pirate mascot) displayed a banner [...]
World Cup 2010: Whose Party?
A South African comrade reflects on the impact of the World Cup industry on ordinary South Africans. Whether 2010 is the “best World Cup ever” (according to FIFA President, Sepp Blatter) remains to be seen. However, it will certainly go down as one of the most interesting, which may have less to do with drama [...]
Squatters, Sexism and Football
A squatters’ football tournament was held on Hackney Marshes in London on Saturday 22nd May. We were disappointed to hear about what happened on the day. It appears that one of the teams (who we’d quite like to name and shame although our sources aren’t sure of the exact miss-spelling used: the “Semi-Sicotix”?) couldn’t handle [...]
The fans of St Pauli – In pictures
All photos Max Reeves The fans of St Pauli Related article: http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2010/05/16/fc-st-pauli-pirates-of-the-league/
St Pauli: Pirates of the League
FC St Pauli the Football Club beloved of radicals everywhere is 100 years old this month. As part of the celebrations a collection of former players and other “St Pauli All Stars” will be playing a friendly match against FC United of Manchester, The Red Rebels, and Republican’s favourites Celtic. A St Pauli statement said: [...]
Getting Active: Football’s coming home
As reported elsewhere in Freedom football fans are becoming more vocal and more militant in their dissent against the corporate take over of the beloved game. The massive explosion in players wages and transfer fees, exorbitant ticket prices, introduction of corporate hospitality sponsorship deals, plus the celebrity lifestyles of the top players and profit-seeking owners [...]
Footie fans in revolt
Fans of Manchester United stepped up their campaign against the club’s corporate owners who have continued to borrow heavily against the premier league team, taking it to the verge of financial collapse. More than 300 angry Man U fans attended a joint meeting between the independent supporters association and the Supporters Trust, a grassroots body [...]
Return of Terrace Politics
Steelworkers protest applauded by fans at Middlesbrough As Gordon Brown declares class war on David Cameron from the hallowed turf of the House of Commons members bar via his middle-class PR machine, football stadiums are becoming the new battleground for expressing genuine class anger and dissent. Workers from the giant Corus steelworks factory on Teesside, [...]
