Everyone involved in Fans Supporting Foodbanks speaks of how the project confounds negative stereotypes of football fans
Outside Ibrox subway it's pitch black and a light drizzle has just saturated the pavement and everyone on it. But in the fluorescent light piercing from the train station a group of fans are holding a now-routine food collection.
The 20-year-old has been volunteering from the start, when Celtic fans joined together with the four other founding clubs in March this year. Everyone involved in Fans Supporting Foodbanks speaks of how the project confounds tired, negative stereotypes of football fans, which it undoubtedly does. Govanhill People's Pantry is receiving the first load of donations, overseen by Dave Kelly, some of the Rangers Fans Supporting Foodbanks volunteers and Joe Rollins, organiser with the union Unite.
"We had this unusual mission statement when we first started and our mission statement was our number one aim was to be closed down," Kelly said. "I was jokingly saying that FSF was going to take credit for signing the Good Friday Food Agreement," he added. Not all groups have the support of their clubs, various members say, because they are seen as"too political" with union involvement, criticism of the Conservative government and their lobbying efforts.
One of the most creative of the Scottish groups has been Jags For Good, the Partick Thistle arm of the collective. Sneddon said: “When Jags For Good was first established the players got together immediately and agreed that we wanted to help and support the initiative as much as we possibly could. "I'd much rather just go along to Firhill and be miserable because of what's on the pitch rather than what we're having to do. It's a shame that it has to be.
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