Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.8.2
Object Name
leaflet
Title
'We Want Football Not Fascism. [...] Mass Picket Sat 14th October. Meet at 1.15pm 4 The Cloth Mkt prior to the game. Newcastle United Against Racism & Fascism. Tyne & Wear Anti-Fascist Association. 1, Drury Lane, Newcastle'
Place
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear
People
Newcastle United, Newcastle United Against Racism & Fascism, Tyne & Wear Anti-fascist Association
Description
A black and white flier titled 'We want football not fascism' made by Tyne & Wear Anti-fascist Association whose logo - a black hand shaking a white hand with the slogan 'Geordies are Black and white' is in the top right corner. The text contains details of a protest. A large picture of a football surrounded by the words 'Newcastle United Against Racism & Fascism' is at the centre right.
This flier was created by Tyne & Wear Anti-Fascist Association to organise a protest outside a Newcastle United football match to oppose National Front (NF) members selling fascist newspapers at matches. The flier declares the desire to 'make Tyne & Wear a "Fascist Free Zone!"'
During the 1980s anti-fascist football fans created associations to oppose fascist presence at football matches. NF members would sell fascist papers at games, and both verbally and physically abuse Black and Asian players and fans - even those playing for the same team. Newcastle United goalkeeper, Shaka Hislop, funded the founding of Show Racism the Red Card, an anti-racism education charity, after he was subjected to racist abuse on his way to play a match, only for the people abusing him to request his autograph when they realised he was the goalkeeper for their team.
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