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VINTAGE FOOTBALL CLUB ARTWORK Jesus Cruyff - I am from Barcelona  (via thevintagefootballclub)

VINTAGE FOOTBALL CLUB ARTWORK

Jesus Cruyff - I am from Barcelona 

(via thevintagefootballclub)


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Football Clubs that play in Red and White Stripes

Here’s Red Star Belgrade for starters. You can find more football clubs that play in red and white stripes over on a side tumblr I’ve set up. It’s called .. wait for it .. Red and White Stripes so pop on over and have a butchers. It’s a work in progress so give it a follow as more clubs are added over the coming days and weeks. Cheers.

(Image Source: Darwineck / wikimedia commons)


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“ When Benfica played our troops turned the speakers with the radio commentary towards the woods and this way we were never attacked. War stopped in those moments because even the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) liked Benfica. It was weird because it didn’t make any sense being at war against people who shared the same club.

The novelist António Lobo Antunes recalls the Portuguese colonial wars in Angola and the cruel absurdity of colonial repression through the lens of football.  (Taken from the article “The Flight of the Eagles” by Luis Catarino, appearing in “The Blizzard”, Issue 6)

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Soviet Design Classic - 50 years of Dynamo Kiev Minimalist beauty - more images on the 50th anniversary of Dynamo Kiev The Dynamos on IBWM

Soviet Design Classic - 50 years of Dynamo Kiev

Minimalist beauty - more images on the 50th anniversary of Dynamo Kiev

The Dynamos on IBWM


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Tranmere Rovers Anti-fascists “But perhaps the most interesting of recent developments on the terraces of Prenton Park has been the formation of Tranmere Rovers Anti-fascists (TRAF). With their mighty 12ft high banner declaring working class unity, TRAF have been promoting anti-fascism in the local area as a response to the increased presence of the EDL at home games. They have already had a mass leafleting campaign outside the ground and been involved in joint actions with other anti-fascist groups, including joining anarchists in Liverpool to counter the BNP’s protest against Question Time being recorded in the city.”  - Originally posted on Indymedia, November 2011 (via footballisradical)

Tranmere Rovers Anti-fascists

“But perhaps the most interesting of recent developments on the terraces of Prenton Park has been the formation of Tranmere Rovers Anti-fascists (TRAF). With their mighty 12ft high banner declaring working class unity, TRAF have been promoting anti-fascism in the local area as a response to the increased presence of the EDL at home games. They have already had a mass leafleting campaign outside the ground and been involved in joint actions with other anti-fascist groups, including joining anarchists in Liverpool to counter the BNP’s protest against Question Time being recorded in the city.”  - Originally posted on Indymedia, November 2011 (via footballisradical)


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Sparta Rotterdam

Sparta Rotterdam - founded 1888

The Sparta March

Red and white is our glory, Red and white is in our blood, In defeat or victory, Red and white is never lost (or words to that effect) (via redwhitestripes)


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Football & street art come together. Sadly this piece by Sheffield artist Rocket01 is no more.  (via ferrets64: Favouritest Rocket01 piece ever - demolished now)

Football & street art come together.

Sadly this piece by Sheffield artist Rocket01 is no more. 

(via ferrets64: Favouritest Rocket01 piece ever - demolished now)


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Mahatma Gandhi - Passive Resisters It’s a little known part of Gandhi’s life but whilst he was in South Africa he founded three football clubs as part of his work to raise awareness of equal rights and take his movement of non-violent resistance to the people. The three clubs all took the same name - Passive Resisters. The photo above shows Gandhi (marked with the peace symbol) with the Passive Resisters of Pretoria & Johannesburg in 1913. Further reading: When Bapu Kicked the Ball | Mahatma Gandhi: Football Legend

Mahatma Gandhi - Passive Resisters

It’s a little known part of Gandhi’s life but whilst he was in South Africa he founded three football clubs as part of his work to raise awareness of equal rights and take his movement of non-violent resistance to the people. The three clubs all took the same name - Passive Resisters. The photo above shows Gandhi (marked with the peace symbol) with the Passive Resisters of Pretoria & Johannesburg in 1913.

Further reading: When Bapu Kicked the Ball | Mahatma Gandhi: Football Legend

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St Pauli - ahoi ich hearties

St Pauli - ahoi ich hearties

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“ You will be nearer to heaven through football than through the study of the Gita Swami Vivekananda on the need to cultivate health & physical fitness whilst on the journey to spiritual enlightenment. a sound mind needs a sound body
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Bring Tradition Back To The Stadium

Bring Tradition Back To The Stadium


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reblogged from footballphilately
Österreich 100 Jahre Fussballmeisterschaft 100 years of the Austrian Football Championship 1911-2011 Unusual Austrian Football Stamps (via  footballphilately)

Österreich 100 Jahre Fussballmeisterschaft

100 years of the Austrian Football Championship 1911-2011

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The Welfare Ground

AFC Emley 2-1 Hallam FC

NCEL1

03/08/12 Att:155


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Amazing image of #Wisla #Krakow #Ultras doing what English people like to call “the Poznan” a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash… — Ed Gibbons (@Gibbe84) August 21, 2012

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Ole! Naranjito - World Cup mascot 1982