History for Doloras

coochiee

LG

I wonder why these same people didn't do the same ideas at Rugby games? Why pick on football?? All it would do is give the club & fans a bad reputation. I hope for footballs sake nothing happens and as Coochie hopes, that fans show up to support this football team. Escapsism for a couple of hours away from politics and life in general.

To be fair I think Doloras has said a few of T-AFC are already supporters of Manurewa FC (or was it Manukau), ie they are football not rugby fans

Manukau United, and the support goes both ways. MUFC board member and former captain Hone Fowler went on an aid mission to Gaza in 2010. His father Roger is a long-time radical leftist who was on the field at Hamilton in 1981, to link this back into the other discussion. (Although if everyone who says they were on the field in Hamilton really was it would have looked like Woodstock lol.)

Remember that one of the reasons the nation got in behind the All Whites in 1982 is that the All Blacks thoroughly disgraced themselves in 1981. Football participation went through the roof, the Halt All Racist Tours organisation had their own team operating out of Mt Wellington if I remember right. I enjoy wandering the very gentrified streets around Eden Park and marvelling that, a few decades ago, there was a near-civil war going on in these very streets.