Just under 600,000 people tuned into BBC3 last Monday to watch the documentary Football Fight Club. The one-hour programme followed the activities of the The Blazing Squad (Man City); The Yid Army (Tottenham Hotspur) and The Interchange Riot Squad (Bury) over the course of the 2013/14 league season. One of the individuals featured is 24 year-old Carl Moran from Bury, eight miles north-west of the City of Manchester. His is top boy with The Blazing Squad and is also connect to Burys firm which is seen as a feeder group to Man Citys casuals. Towards the end of the documentary (approx. 37mins onwards), the film crew followed Carl to Ireland as he hooked up with some of his friends in the Shamrock Rovers youth firm in Dublin. Of interest to anti-Fascists is that Carl is a BNP supporter who is listed on Facebook has having attended four EDL demos. He has been photographed posing next to graffiti saying BNP 4 EVA, in a group with a Northern Ireland Loyalist flag and in four different group photos in which numerous people around him are seig-heiling to the camera. See this picture (tinyurl/carlmoran) which is currently doing the rounds on social media. His Facebook likes include British National Party, UK Independence Party (UKIP), Stop the Astley Bridge Mosque Bolton and the British Army. No doubt his presence would not sit well with the Shamrock Rovers fans who are active Irish Republicans, Socialists and Anti-Fascists and were unaware of his presence or his politics.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:39:13 +0000
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