Mayday festival of football. Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. RTS Quick Search Mayday festival of football. Clissold Park, Stoke Newington.
Football unites more than it divides.
I love that line and have used it frequently to justify my obsessions. Saturday was all about celebrating our love for the working man's ballet, to bring people together for what was thankfully, a sunny day in the park and in some part to strip the game away from its increasing commodification, returning it to the grass roots level of participation for all. There were two meat wagons full of coppers present all day. They spent a fair amount of their time filming and photographing the action and when they weren't doing that they quietly turned pink in the sun. They'll probably be pouring over their footage as you read this, alarmed by the high levels of tactical sophistication on display and note, will no doubt have been taken, of the organisational genius as we bumbled about asking each other for a pen to write down the scores and argued about the pass back rule.