Podcast: Football Lads Alliance – The Rise of Fascism in Football?

Podcasts 28th September, 2018

Welcome to episode three of W.G. Grace’s Sports Surgery. Terry and Duke sit down with Dick Gherkin from cult podcast, From Bristol With Love, to discuss the emergence of the Football Lads Alliance (FLA), a self-proclaimed anti-extremism movement, but have they been infiltrated by the far right?

The trio chat about the Football Lads and Lasses Against Fascism, a national network set up to counter fascism on the terraces.

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