Celtic fans displaying anti-monarchy banners in Warsaw, Poland
One of Britain’s longest-serving NFL fans is calling time after 18 years: “It’s priced me out”
“THERE could be a book in this.” I suggested to my mate, Vince Raison, on very cold night in Madrid in January 2019. We’d just been chatting to a bunch of Celta Vigo fans carrying the pan-Celtic flag at the Rayo Vallecano v Celta Vigo game that evening.
Celta have a left-leaning fan base as well as Rayo, these guys were off to some socialist conference in Derry a few days after the match. We were not long after our first visit to FC St Pauli, a place of pilgrimage for leftist football fans from across the globe.
“We’d enjoy writing it but would anyone want to read it?” replied Vince, with some justification.
RON JACOBS welcomes a history of the Young Patriots Organisation that is also an organising manual with applications and implications for today
DAVID McKINSTRY welcomes the republication of a meticulous portrait of Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic FC
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE