» The first corporate sponsors of FC United of Manchester, everyone’s favourite punk football team, may have given much need cash to the club but they won’t be getting the company’s name on the players shirts. “What we are against is putting commercial interests before those of the club.” said Andy Walsh, the club’s general manager. FCUM, seen as a flagship club for many in grassroots footbal…

The Austrian-born anarchist author and former semi-professional football player, Gabriel Kuhn, recently released his newest book with PM Press, Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. We talked to Kuhn about football, anarchism, and sports in a better world.

• Is there anything intrinsically ‘anarchistic’ about football?

I’m tempted to say that there isn’t any…

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Greater Manchester Police recorded 353 incidents of domestic abuse in the city following England’s World Cup defeat against Germany, making it the second highest recording of domestic abuse this year, after New Year’s Day.

Manchester City Council’s Lead Member on Women, Councillor Suzanne Richards, said: “The statistics show that major sporting events and the consumption of alcohol lead…

The media and the riot police in Bolton portrayed the so-called "English Defence League" as friendly, happy-go-lucky "treehuggers", but the ugly truth shone through later Saturday evening when a gang of chanting EDL thugs gathered in a pub on Oldham Road, Middleton intent on violence. 

As British authorities are accused of turning a blind eye to fascist racial incitement and street violence, there is damning evidence BNP organisers are, as suspected, using the EDL to do the BNP's dirty work by plotting race riots in multicultural areas.