Srtrc Hall of Fame Ceremony Downing Street 12Th May 2008
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Introduction Ged Grebby UK Project Co-ordinator The 2007-8 season was officially the most successful season in the history of our campaign with more posters produced, events at clubs and community education work than ever before. We are now working on our Annual Review for this period, which we hope to have finished for July 2008. This newsletter can only give a flavour of the work we have carried out since our last newsletter in Leroy Rosenior and Robbie Earle presented the December. We managed to cap a brilliant season for our Hall of Fame Ceremony. anti-racist campaign with a fantastic event at 10 Downing Street with our patrons, supporters and sponsors. Work is progressing well on our four new films: 1. A film in conjunction with Fifpro the international players’ union called “Racism and the Beautiful game”. This DVD will be used by players’ unions around the world to promote ideas on how football can combat racism. 2. A film and education pack to combat the growth of Islamophobia in society. 3. An updated version of our Show Racism the Red Card DVD. 4. A new Scottish Show Racism the Red Card DVD. The aim is to have all four films finished and ready to launch for the beginning of the new season in August. We have interviewed the following players and ex- players: Thierry Henry, Lillian Thuram, Samuel Eto’o, Gareth Southgate, Ryan Giggs, Wes Brown, Brian McClair, Gordon Taylor, Robert Earnshaw, Danny Gabbidon, Leroy Sol Campbell and Fabulous Flournoy were Rosenior, Freddie Eastwood, Jermaine Easter, Gareth Bale, amongst the guests at 10 Downing Street. Shola Ameobi, Sam Allardyce, Lee Clark, Obafemi Martins, Geremi, Rio Ferdinand, Darren Fletcher, Louis Saha, Jermain Defoe, Jermaine Jenas, Aaron Lennon, Dimitar Berbatov, David Nugent, Matthew Taylor, Noe Pamarot, Benjani Mwaruwari, Justin Hoyte, John Beresford, Mido, George Boateng, Craig Gordon, Nyron Nosworthy, Niall Quinn, Anita Asante, Kelly Smith, Faye White, Rachel Yankey, Gary Bennett, Brendon Batson, Paul Davis, Paul Canoville, Hope Powell, Chris Hughton, Stephen McManus, Barry Ferguson, Jean Claude Darcheville, Gavin Peacock, Garth Crooks, Gary Lineker, Les Ferdinand, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole, Al Bangura, Aidy Boothroyd, Jason Roberts, Avram Grant, Sol Campbell, Shaka Hislop, Anton Ferdinand, Chris Kamara and Kolo Toure. Avram Grant and Peter Kenyon of Chelsea FC came to show their support. As you can see we have had an excellent response from footballers, football clubs and managers and the prospect of having all these new resources available to us with education packs by September 2008 means this is going to be a very exciting year for our organisation. My thanks go to all our staff, volunteers, management committee and patrons who have worked so hard to make this season such a successful one for our campaign. Show Racism the Red Card, PO Box 141, Whitley Bay, NE26 3YH. Tel: 0191 257 8519. Fax: 0191 257 8541. www.theredcard.org 2 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD SRtRC Hall of Fame Ceremony Downing Street 12th May 2008 The Prime Minister recently hosted Show Racism the Red Card’s Hall of Fame Ceremony at 10 Downing Street. The Hall of Fame was initiated in 2004 as a way of thanking the high profile role models who have so generously given their time and commitment to our campaign. The first Hall of Fame Ceremony was held at Coutts HQ in the Strand and awards have previously been given to Thierry Henry, John Barnes, Brendon Batson, Rio Ferdinand, Shaka Hislop, Gordon Taylor and Sir Bobby Robson among others. This year’s Ceremony was sponsored by Reed Smith, Unison, PFA and Unite the Union. The Ceremony was very well attended and was tribute to NON-FOOTBALLING ROLE MODELS the time and effort people are willing to put aside to Rugby: Joe Shaw, Colin Charvis support our anti racist message. Sol Campbell came along to Basketball: Fabulous Flournoy accept an award, the same week that he captained Actors: Tracey Wilkinson, Patrick Miller Portsmouth FC to FA Cup victory. Avram Grant and Peter Music: Heather Small Kenyon of Chelsea took the time to attend in one of the busiest weeks of their professional careers leading up to the COMMUNITY EDUCATION WORK Champions League final. The Reading chairman John Leroy Rosenior, Brian Irvine, John Anderson, Jim Duffy, Madejski was there to pledge support, even though his club Gerry Britton, Kieron Brady, Derek Ferguson, Dean Gordon. had been relegated the previous day and he was on crutches because he broke his ankle a few weeks ago. The SCHOOLS COMPETITION Manager and Chairman of Cardiff City FC, Dave Jones and Peter Risdale also took time out from their FA Cup final Bobby Barnes, Chris Freestone, David Collins, preparations to show a united front against racism. Howard Gayle, Tony Higgins, Dave Bennett, Robbie Neilson, Bob Bolder, Iffy Onuora, Paul Elliott. We were also fortunate enough to have senior Government Ministers present on the day to champion our cause, Gerry UNSUNG HEROES Sutcliffe, Minister for Sport and Jim Knight, Minister for Don Cowper, John Last, Kamber Kimti, Kim Burns. Schools and Learners. Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, kindly agreed to open the Ceremony After the awards, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown spoke with a speech backing our campaign and paying tribute to to thank all recipients for their hard work fighting how far the campaign has progressed from its inception in discrimination and working towards eliminating prejudice. 1995. SRtRC Honorary President, Shaka Hislop took up the Mr Brown was then presented with a framed Show story, sharing his personal experiences of racism and his Racism the Red Card/Raith Rovers poster to thank him for pride at how his original donation of £50 over ten years ago hosting the Ceremony and for backing our campaign. set the wheels in motion for the campaign which is now prevalent tackling the scourge of racism throughout Europe. The event was afforded extensive media coverage including slots on Newsnight and Channel 4 News. The Ceremony hosted 170 footballers, managers, Shaka Hislop wrote an article that featured on The basketballers, rugby players, and many other celebrities Guardian website, which can be found at: and dignitaries. Many, many high profile players and Managers turned out for the campaign including Scotland http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/may/15/ Manager George Burley, Roy Hodgson, Alan Pardew, Anton majorleaguesoccer Ferdinand, Nicky Shorey, Liam Rosenior, Justin Hoyte, Jason Roberts, Chris Powell, Moritz Volz, Al Bangura, Simon One of the aims of the day for our campaign was to lobby Grayson, Simon Davey and Tony Pulis. Football Clubs were the Ministers present to help us achieve our goal of also represented at the highest level, Chris Mort of providing every school in England with a copy of our Newcastle United, John Reid and Peter Lawwell of Celtic, educational DVD. We have already managed this in both Martin Bain and Sandy Jardine of Rangers, Lex Gold of the Scotland and Wales and it would be a landmark SPL, Campbell Ogilivie of Hearts, Gordon Smith of the SFA achievement for us if we were able to secure a and representatives from both FA and PFA in England. commitment from the Government to make it happen in England. Leroy Rosenior was interviewed on the day The presenters were ex-footballers Leroy Rosenior and outlining the work of the campaign and the interview can Robbie Earle, both members of our Hall of Fame, and the be found at: awards were allocated according to the following categories: http://youtube.com/watch?v=i2yi5jULNpE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AT SPORTING CLUBS The day was a resounding success thanks to the hard work Sol Campbell, Jason Roberts, Brian Deane, Danny Shittu, of staff and Management Committee members and the Jason De Vos, Trevor Sinclair (received by his Manager significant contributions from Unison, Reed Smith, the PFA, Dave Jones), Justin Hoyte, Efe Sodje, Jim Smith, Craig Unite, Dave Anderson MP, Jack Nicholas, Paul Burgess, Gordon, Jackie McNamara Snr, Brian Hall. Lee Dobson and Potts Printers. NEWSLETTER 2008 3 Campaign in WALES Sunil Patel Welsh Campaign Co-ordinator Since the last newsletter, we have continued to promote our work throughout Wales and our campaign has attracted support from up and down the country. The last few months saw us deliver our first ever football club workshops with Swansea City and Welsh Premier League side Welshpool FC. Both the workshops were held at local schools and saw first team players sharing their views and experiences of racism with young people. We have had a tremendous response from the football clubs in Wales and we will look to broaden our events by holding workshops with Rugby clubs in Wales next season. The campaign has taken on a new Information and Support worker for Wales to assist in developing the work in Wales. Jason Webber has been working for the Football in the Community department at Merthyr Tydfil FC for the past few seasons, he is currently working towards Level 3 (B Licence) UEFA coaching award and will assist us towards increasing physical activity as well as adopting new ways of delivering our anti-racism Leroy Rosenior visits Barry Comprehensive school to spread workshops. He will also support the Co-ordinator and our message. manage administration for the campaign in Wales. The Vale of Glamorgan Council became the first in Wales If you would like to be involved with the campaign to give us funding towards our anti-racist workshops that in Wales, please email Sunil at [email protected] are being delivered by ex-professional footballer Leroy Rosenior. The workshops have been a great success with us visiting 10 schools and 6 youth clubs throughout the area in the last few months.