Fan group warns football supporters against ‘fraud’ Farage

Fan group London Solidarity Football did an action over the weekend of 18-19 April. The group placed anti-Reform posters in bus stops outside football grounds around London. These included Millwall, Charlton, Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Leyton Orient and West Ham.

The posters carry an image of Reform’s grifter-in-chief Nigel Farage signing one of his ridiculous ‘football shirts’. He’s wearing a MAGA-style red cap that says: “Make my chums rich again”. The poster carries the text:

SCRAPPING WORKERS RIGHTS

SELLING OFF PUBLIC SERVICES

MAKING FAMILIES POORER

BLAMING IT ON IMMIGRANTS

All with a tick. Followed by:

DECLARING HIS INCOME

With a cross after it.

Then in large letters above the image of Farage, it says:

THIS TRANSFER WINDOW, DONT SIGN THIS FRAUD

The message ahead of the local elections on 7 May couldn’t be clearer. Reform has nothing to offer to football fans. Or anyone else. Except maybe the super-wealthy.

London Solidarity Football issued a statement:

We are a group of football fans from different clubs united in solidarity. We reject right wing influence in society and specifically in football.

Nigel Farage has made some pathetic attempts at using football to sanitise his image and endear himself to working class people. He sells ‘Reform FC’ shirts and recently went on a stadium tour at Ipswich Town.

This is the same man who said ‘politics has no place in football’ when players took the knee in support of Black Lives Matter. Nigel is no football fan and is more regularly seen at fox hunts.

We took this action ahead of the local elections on May 7. We encourage all football fans to reject the anti-immigration politics of the 1% and stand together with the fans and players from different races, religions and cultures that make their clubs what they are.

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London Solidarity Football was referencing Farage’s visit to Ipswich Town’s Portman Road ground. That turned into a PR nightmare for everyone involved with a mess of contradictory claims. Local rivals Norwich City were quick to suggest the Reform bandwagon wouldn’t be welcome at their house:

And when Farage hinted at attending a Sunderland match, fans were quick to let him know what they thought. It seems that many footy fans want nothing to do with Reform’s politics of division, fear and hate. They’d much prefer it if Farage actually did what he once said and kept politics out of football.

Featured image via London Solidarity Football

By The Canary

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