Labour Football

Grassroots group promoting Labour values in football. We don’t support ANY particular club. "Football without fans is nothing.” [email protected]

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

Fans spoke, Labour listened. https://t.co/aKPSPbD6ND

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

It’s time to back safe-standing at football grounds.

We will give the power to fans, clubs and local safety authorities, to allow stadiums to designate an area for safe-standing.

https://t.co/qDLmWofbhh

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

FC Basel leads the way!

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

FC Basel fans protesting the Swiss FA selling expensive tickets for their cup final by issuing their own tickets for half the price. The fans will turn up on the day of the match & offer the FA the money. If they turn it down they’ll have no fans or money. Can we do this here pls

[The Blue Union @TheBlueUnion]

Most of us, if not all of us will get a knock on the door for politicians of various persuasions.

If you love the Beautiful game ask them to support Grassroots football and if they agree you'll vote for them.

To save Grassroots Football we need to #GTTO and Vote Labour #EFC

[Dr Rosena @DrRosena]

To combat racism in football - we need a change of culture.

This means diversifying our boardrooms, more BAME coaches, severe punishments for racism and media outlets taking more responsibility.

I've added my name to the @TimesSport manifesto:
https://t.co/bPn806p3ac

[Philosophy Football @Phil_Football]

How to explain the roots of what mod£rn football has become? @NFJensen with a pretty detailed explanation of how football went from being 'just' a sport to an industry.
https://t.co/sbHleziipT

[Spirit of Shankly @spiritofshankly]

Today we remember and pay tribute to the 96 Liverpool supporters who left for a semi-final and never came home.

We remember their families and friends, and we remember and continue to support the survivors of that day, 15 April 1989.

You are forever in our hearts. #YNWA

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

30 years ago today, 96 children, women and men lost their lives at Hillsborough.

Our thoughts are with all those affected by the tragedy and the 96 fans who will never be forgotten.

[Matt Slater @mjshrimper]

Not a great day for English football’s...erm, ‘business model’ tomorrow. Three clubs in companies court facing winding-up petitions: Bolton, Macclesfield & Ebbsfleet.

[Phil Hay @PhilHay_]

Bielsa on the attack on Jack Grealish yesterday: "The person who does the thing we saw yesterday expresses a series of frustrations which are not necessarily linked to football. Because the more satisfied you are with your personal life, the less you need to do this kind of act."

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

Extremely important thread below, please read:

[Jay McKenna @JayMcKenna87]

THREAD: Important read on the weekends events, from a football crowds expert, not reacting football commentators

[Match Goer @FansHaveRights]

Up there with the (historical)suggestion that electric fences were a good idea. But worse.

[Geoff Pearson @Geoff_Pearson]

Re pitch invasions. No, we are not "going back to the dark days of football hooliganism". Yes, punishments for perpetrators are sufficient - pitch encroachment is a criminal offence, assault is a criminal offence, and FBOs have a punitive effect. #jackgrealish

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

Everyone talks about the need for “more stewarding”. If this is the stewards we’re getting through the door - are you really sure?

[Andy @andrewstone85]

Much better video of the steward incident. One clashing with Jack and Conor and another one pushing Mings away

[Philosophy Football @Phil_Football]

Is this how a club dies? @twoht records how @OfficialBWFC is being killed off
https://t.co/zIJsPjtPoZ

[Richard Garvie @richardgarvie]

Look at all that Bucky!! Someone made a great point - fans can drink on a train while legally "annoying wider public", so why target a bus of football fans contained in one vehicle? 🤦‍♂️

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

No doubt the public feel much safer that a few cans of beer have been confiscated from fans - odds on this happening to fans of any other support? Not a chance.

[Police Scotland South Ayrshire @PSOSSAyrshire]

This afternoon officers stopped a football supporters bus on the A78 which was travelling towards a match in Greenock. A quantity of alcohol was seized from passengers. Sergeant Lyall said “Operations like this one help keep fans and the wider community safe”.

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

Superb analysis as always from @DPJHodges. If only Jeremy Corbyn has reached out and appointed someone like Owen Smith, who literally stood against him months earlier, to the Shadow Cabinet after the last election.

Oh wait...#owngoal

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

There was a moment, in the immediate aftermath of the election, when Jeremy Corbyn was in a position of unrivalled power. If he'd taken that opportunity to reach out to the moderates, and engage with them, I suspect British political history would have been very, very different.

[Labour Football @LabourFootball]

RIP Gordon Banks, England’s best ever goalkeeper

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

England's 1966 World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks has died aged 81 https://t.co/iiYR8ESW5p