Football
AFC Liverpool Free To Unison Members
AFC Liverpool, the worker-owned football club I set up last year, is free entry tomorrow (Sat 5 Dec, 3pm) for UNISON members. Just bring your union card. The club is also joining in the climate campaign by wearing shirts the same blue colour of The Wave Climate Change Campaign for the day. So thats a [...]
German football remains owned by fans
When I set up AFC Liverpool two years ago I wanted to build a club for Liverpool supporters who were disenfranchised by what is regarded as “the modern game.” They were disenfranchised in two ways. Firstly, they have no say in the running of their club. Instead, it is sold off like a piece of [...]
Shankly – The Hero Who Never Let Me Down
28 years ago today the world lost Bill Shankly. I’m a Liverpool fan so Shanks is always going to have a place in my heart but it goes beyond that. Shankly represented everything great and everything I respect about humanity. You only need to watch him speak to get a sense of his honesty, charisma [...]
AFC Liverpool’s First Ever AGM
If you like your football with a dollop of socialism that means the fans own and control your club…. If the Premier League makes you feel like a mere customer….. If the news that a footy player gets £250,000 a week for something you’d do for free makes you reach for the vom bucket…… … [...]
The Road To Glastonwick – Part Four
The latest edition of the road trip video. A trip to Northampton Services doesn’t go too well. I couldn’t work out how to bleep out company names on my video software so they’ve stayed in. Booooo. Link to part five once you’ve watched this vid
New Song Live At Glastonwick
I’ve uploaded a new song from my gig at the Glastonwick Festival in Sussex. Let’s know what you think of it. The journey was a 16 hour round trip so I’ll be posting some of the antics from along the way over the next few days. How about some suggestions for a song name for [...]
Beating Berlusconi 2 for 1 Special Offer
As you know I’ve had some involvement on the music side this year with the Writing on the Wall festival. So let me put a special offer your way regarding the Writing on the Wall festival. On Thursday 7th May at 8pm, the WOW Festival are showing the play BEATING BERLUSCONI at The Contemporary Urban [...]
AFC Liverpool Win The Vodkat Trophy – A Pictorial
A moment of history happened tonight. AFC Liverpool, the club I founded last year on socialist principles, won our first trophy in our very first season. If you didn’t hear the official cup final song that I wrote and released last week, then check it out here In dreadful weather, Dean Thurston scored the winner [...]
AFCL Cup Final Song Played to 44,000 at Anfield
The buzz around the AFC Liverpool Cup Final song continues to build, with the track being played at half time today at Anfield. 44,000 people attended the game to watch Liverpool steamroll to a 4-0 win over Blackburn Rovers. And at half time they were played the AFC Liverpool Cup Final Song by Anfield’s resident [...]
Alun Parry Sings Official AFC Liverpool Cup Final Song
It’s traditional for football teams to release a cup final song in the run up to a Wembley appearance. But how many non league teams heading for a cup final get a cup final song? Well AFC Liverpool has. It was something of a sudden project. At the end of AFC Liverpool’s 3-0 win over [...]
