Football

police Liverpool fans
What We Think

From Paris to Hillsborough the police are the same everywhere

Scum cops are everywhere
31 May 2022
A rainbow pride corner flag
Reviews & Culture

Football’s Coming Out — why are there no openly gay top footballers?

A documentary on homophobia in football
31 January 2022
Maxine Peake as Anne Williams in front of Liverpool FC scarves
Reviews & Culture

Hillsborough TV drama highlights battle for justice

The story of one woman’s fight shows the broader scandal
06 January 2022
Letters—Tories’ £20 a week cut means that a woman risks her safety
Letters

Letters—Tories’ £20 a week cut means that a woman risks her safety

As chancellor Rishi Sunak was considering his budget I was dealing with a case that should bring home the poverty the Tories should be addressing.
25 October 2021
Struggle, not football shirts, can win the working class
Comment

Struggle, not football shirts, can win the working class

Some think that appealing rightwards is the way to win over working class people. Simon Basketter says ‘left populism’ is a dead end
18 July 2021
Smash Tory racists—and their nationalism
What We Think

Smash Tory racists—and their nationalism

Vile hypocrisy. That’s the only possible verdict as the Tories and sections of the right wing press claimed to be anti-racists this week
13 July 2021
Flagging up a problem
What We Think

Flagging up a problem

Remember when the left was against nationalism and flags?
06 July 2021
Letters—Johnson plays a dangerous game with our health
Letters

Letters—Johnson plays a dangerous game with our health

The government is putting profit before health—again. This time it’s to prioritise football matches.
29 June 2021
Letters—Why sexual harassment of young women is normalised
Letters

Letters—Why sexual harassment of young women is normalised

I wasn’t surprised by the latest report describing the scale of sexual harassment faced by young women. No young woman would have been.
15 June 2021
Show the red card to Johnson’s racism
What We Think

Show the red card to Johnson’s racism

Football fans booing England players taking the knee last week is an issue that goes further than sport. It shows how racism is structured and used by the elite.
08 June 2021
Letters—Protests against football bosses show contradictions
News

Letters—Protests against football bosses show contradictions

To see thousands of football fans on the streets opposing the way the billionaire owners had planned to rig the game and stop the European Super League has been brilliant.
11 May 2021
Nazi cop jailed under terror law
News

Nazi cop jailed under terror law

A British police officer has been jailed for four years and four months for being a neo‑Nazi.
04 May 2021
LETTERS - Football fans deserve better than the ‘German’ model
Letters

LETTERS – Football fans deserve better than the ‘German’ model

The European Super League (ESL) scandal has shown how capitalism affects every aspect of our lives.
26 April 2021
Sport and the system—whose game are we playing?
Features

Sport and the system—whose game are we playing?

Sport offers relief and a sense of collective identity denied to us by capitalism—but bosses also use it to make profits and divide us. Sam Ord explores the contradictions
23 April 2021
European Super League stitch-up shows football run for profit, not fans
News

European Super League stitch-up shows football run for profit, not fans

The move towards a European Super League is motivated by profit following a year of lockdown restrictions that have strangled some of the club’s income
19 April 2021
Sheldon review into child sex abuse in football finds ‘institutional failings’
News

Sheldon review into child sex abuse in football finds ‘institutional failings’

A lack of safeguarding in football allowed perpetrators of sexual abuse “to hide and use their positions to ruin the lives of many children”.
18 March 2021
LETTERS—Anti-trans court ruling is an attack on autonomy for all
Letters

LETTERS—Anti-trans court ruling is an attack on autonomy for all

A high Court judicial review earlier this month outlawed the use of puberty blockers for young trans people unless they can persuade doctors to go to court on their behalf.
15 December 2020
Don’t let the Tories define anti-racism
What We Think

Don’t let the Tories define anti-racism

In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Black Lives Matter (BLM) made great advances in the struggle against racism, and what it means to be an anti-racist.
08 December 2020
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Socialist Review Archive

Declassified

On 4 December 1935, England played Germany at White Hart Lane, the Tottenham Hotspur football ground in north London. The game was seen by the Nazis as a great political and propaganda coup, especially coming so soon after Hitler devised the racist Nuremburg Laws that deprived German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. In...
05 October 2020
Letters : We made silence political 
Letters

Letters : We made silence political 

In Oxfordshire we wanted to make sure that last week’s Workers’ Memorial Day action to remember health and care staff was more than a silent protest.
01 May 2020
Deadly force - cops and their lethal weapons
News

Cop charged with murder over the death of former footballer Dalian Atkinson

A police officer has been charged with the murder of black footballer Dalian Atkinson.
07 November 2019
LETTERS - The racism in football is not only about Bulgarian Nazis
Letters

LETTERS – The racism in football is not only about Bulgarian Nazis

The racist behaviour by Bulgarian fans against black English footballers was disgusting.
22 October 2019
Organise against the FLA and DFLA protests to push back the racists
News

Organise against the FLA and DFLA protests to push back the racists

The Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) is trying to whip up racism against Muslims in Rochdale. 
10 April 2018
Letters - How fans in Scotland threw football act into the dustbin
Letters

Letters – How fans in Scotland threw football act into the dustbin

 
27 March 2018