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Novara FM: The People Vs Football w/ Juliet Jacques & Tom Williams

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Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Is football the place for political struggle? Is there a limit to the success of fan-owned clubs? How disappointed can we be when pundits and players turn out not to be comrades? Cultural critic Juliet Jacques and Pro Revolution Soccer host Tom Williams unite for a conversation inspired by Mickaël Correia’s book, The People’s History […]

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0:00.0

Hello I'm Jans Valfakis I'm at Novara Media and I have a message for you.

0:05.0

The best way of underpinning any kind of potential resistance to a very toxic establishment

0:14.6

without being a populist anti-establishment

0:18.4

and by supporting good irrational humanist causes is to support left-wing media like Novara media.

0:27.0

Novara media and all such media need your support because they certainly do not have the support of the establishment.

0:34.8

Capidim. Oh, yes, I'm a... And I'm a...

0:44.0

And I have a...

0:46.0

F. F. F. F. F. F. F. Hello and today I'm your host Juliet Jakes and today I'm joined by my friend and comrade Tom Williams,

1:08.6

hosts of Navarro's Pro Revolution soccer podcast and co-organizer of Acid Football, which some of you may know from the World Transformed Festival, which Tom has helped to organize.

1:21.0

That should give you a clue as to the subject of today's conversation.

1:24.3

Hi Tom, how you doing?

1:25.8

Hi Julia, I'm good. Are you all right?

1:28.2

I am not bad, although I've spent a lot of time watching Norwich City lately and I really wish I hadn't.

1:33.7

Let's not talk about them. Let's talk about acid football. Do you want to just quickly explain

1:39.7

what the concept behind acid football was and what it meant to be involved with it?

1:44.4

Yeah so it was I think it came about as a as a combination of you and me and Kia

1:50.5

Milburn who was was my co-host for the Pro Revolution soccer

1:57.5

podcast that we did for Navarro around the World Cup.

2:00.3

And I think the initial sort of animus for it was this kind of Mark Fisher consciousness raising stuff and it was rooted in Fisher's idea of acid communism.

2:12.3

And it ended up being kind of like what people were doing in the

2:17.6

at the beginning of the women's movement which was you know women sitting around and

2:21.9

talking about their experiences and kind of

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