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The Roaring Red Front
STEWART McGILL discusses himself and Vince Raison’s fascinating new book about the global network of left-wing, anti-fascist and anti-racist football fans
Celtic fans displaying anti-monarchy banners in Warsaw, Poland
“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.
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