Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.409.12.125
Object Name
Poster
Title
Gordon McQueen Joe Jordan Please - Don't Play Ball with the Chilean Generals
Events
Scotland v Chile football match; Scotland's "Match of Shame" 1977; Chilean Coup
Date
1977
Description
Poster, campaigning against the Scotland-Chile football match in 1977, which became known as Scotland's "Match of Shame".
The poster is white with red printed words painted using stencil letters. The poster reads:
"Gordon McQueen
Joe Jordan
Please -Don't Play Ball
With the
Chilean Generals"
The poster was directly aimed at key players for Scotland, asking them to boycott the match. The Scottish team went ahead with the match, which was held in the National Stadium in Santiago - which had, only four years previously, been used as a temporary concentration camp to hold political prisoners following the military coup in Chile; during which many prisoners were tortured and killed.
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