The far-right is attempting to return to football. These are the fans fighting it

The Football Lads Alliance claimed to be politically neutral – yet Tommy Robinson was present at marches, and anti-Islam speakers addressed crowds.

In the aftermath of the June 2017 London Bridge terror attack, the Football Lads Alliance was founded to protest what it considered an inadequate response to terrorism by the British government. Yet what the group claimed was simply a platform for ordinary, working-class football fans to unite against extremism quickly fell into the clutches of the far-right.

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