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Guerrilla History

A Football Manifesto w/ Robert E. Wilson

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have an extensive and fascinating conversation on football with Robert Wilson! This was a great conversation, not only if you are a fan of the sport.  We highly recommend you also check out the interview Robert did on Rev Left Radio.

Be sure to also check out our past episodes on football, each of which featured Alexander Aviña: Football! Palestine, Copa América, & the Euros, The World Cup: Sport, Politics, History, and Propaganda, and Intelligence Briefing: The Beautiful Game

Robert E. Wilson  is author of The Football Manifesto and The Supporters Trust League Manifesto. Check out Gaia Labs HERE.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You don't remember Den Van Booh?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:14.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

0:17.0

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

0:28.9

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

0:39.2

I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckmacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein,

0:45.6

historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.

0:49.5

Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?

0:51.8

I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you.

0:54.1

Absolutely. Always nice to see you and always nice Henry. It's wonderful to be with you.

0:55.1

Absolutely.

0:59.1

Always nice to see you and always nice when we can come together to talk about football,

1:00.9

which will be the topic that we'll be discussing.

1:04.9

However, before I introduce the guests that we have and the topic,

1:07.7

the more specific topic focus for today,

1:10.7

I would like to remind the listeners that they can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can follow guerrilla history on various social media platforms, although to be honest, I have not been able to put anything on the social media platforms for a while because of sanctions,

1:28.6

but you can still follow us wherever you get your social media fix.

1:33.4

That's not true, not anywhere.

1:34.8

You can get it on Twitter, you can get it on Instagram, and you can also subscribe to our email newsletter.

1:39.9

Eventually, I'll be able to post on there again, I think.

1:43.7

With that being said, we have a terrific guest today and a really fascinating topic.

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