Cricketer leaves no stone unturned at Derbyshire after Ashes snub
THIS is to conclude our series on left leaning clubs and their supporters. Hopefully more from us later.
My colleague Vince Raison and I appeared on a podcast last night in which the host asked us about what football could do about the toxic masculinity, xenophobia, racism and sexism associated with football and its supporters, not wholly unfairly.
The stock answer is of course that it is society’s problem, football suffers the consequences of the socialisation system that breeds toxic male attitudes to violence, women, people of a different race, gay people and others.
ROGER MCKENZIE argues that it was correct to ban the notorious Israeli side who were likely to cause trouble in Muslim areas of Birmingham, but asks, given the occupation and slaughter in Palestine, why any Israeli team is being hosted anywhere
JAMES NALTON writes on the bizarre Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal
STEVEN ANDREW welcomes a fine introduction to FC United of Manchester, the team set up in opposition to Manchester United



