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Memories: Netters get their shinnies on

Posted by on Apr 1, 2020 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

Thought I’d start a series of ‘memories’* posts (as I’m bored in isolation) to take us all down memory lane together. If you have a memory you’d like to share, send it my way webgimp@eastoncowfolk.org.uk

So, Beesands 2015-ish. There was no women’s tourny so we’d been watching the blokes play all weekend feeling kinda jealous. Then we realised if we roped in some of the netters lasses and put a wig on wee Charlie we’d have enough for a game against the Yard ladies. Charlie was duly wigged up and Linner, Peg and Emma sorted themselves some proper shin protection using the nearest thing to hand. A tunnel of honour was formed outside the marquee and we made our glorious entrance to the pitch led by Kaz doing his best and only aerobics routine. What happened on the pitch? Who remembers, and quite frankly who cares.

I wonder which made the best shinnies, Thatchers Heritage or Somerset Tree Shaker?

*Disclaimer: my memory is not the most reliable, maybe something to do with all that cider who knows. Any amendments, retractions, clarifications or complaints, post em below.

Dance for Palestine fundraiser

Posted by on Mar 28, 2020 in Club News, Community News, Events News | 0 comments

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the Cowfolk fundraiser at Easton Community Centre on 6th March. We raised £1553 for the Community Centre and a Palestinian family on the edge of a settlement who are facing eviction. The family is raising funds to develop their agri-tourism operation which is crucial to making it easier for them to make a living where they live.

And a big thanks and well done to everyone who helped organise and run this, massive team effort.

St. Pauli AntiRa 2020!

Posted by on Mar 28, 2020 in Diary, Events News, Tours/Tournaments | 0 comments

You know you want to…

Remember that one time the Cowgirls won the women’s tourny (albeit joint with Republica Int.)? No, neither do we…
But who could forget this epic group photo!

Our friends from Hamburg and Leeds are visiting!

Posted by on Mar 28, 2020 in Diary, Events News, Team News, Tours/Tournaments | 0 comments

NOTE: CURRENTLY POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 :-/ WATCH THIS SPACE!

Well, we invited them…

Our friends Frau Dorte Becker from Hamburg and Republica Internationale from Leeds are due to be visiting us for a long weekend 10th-13th April, yippee!

There’ll be chatting, a radical history tour of Bristol, kick-arounds, a ‘Football Welcomes Refugees’ tournament on the Sunday and of course lots of merriment in the Plough. So you have been warned!

Casual League food bank donation

Posted by on Dec 8, 2019 in Team News | 0 comments

The cowgirls contributed £86 worth of foods and hygiene products to the Bristol Womens Football Casual League food bank collection on Saturday! A massive thank you to everyone for donating.

Solidarity with Rojava

Posted by on Nov 7, 2019 in Club News | 0 comments

A message from the Easton Cowgirls…

“We’re the Easton Cowgirls and we stand here tonight in solidarity with the Kurdish people and Internationals that are currently in Northern Syria which is under invasion from the Turkish forces. We firstly want to send a message to our friends that are over there volunteering and tell them that we are thinking about them every day, we’re scared for them but we are immensely proud of what they are doing and we give them all of our support. We would also like to send a message to the UK government asking them to stop arming Turkish Forces. They’ve put out a message to say they are going to put a ban on sales but it’s not enough. They are still exporting arms now and will be for the next few months. So we are asking them to stop. And finally, we would like to ask all our friends and family and supporters to stand up for Rojava. Talk to your MPs, go on demonstrations and boycott Turkey. Thank you very much”

From Riseup4rojava.org:

This month the Turkish occupation army and its Islamist allies began their long prepared war of aggression against the liberated areas of Northern Syria. Turkey promotes this as a military operation aimed at securing the boarder and establishing a so called “peace corridor”, but the fact is that the Turkish army and Islamic mercenaries under its command are concerned with nothing less than the occupation of the mostly Kurdish populated area along the Turkish-Syrian border. The regime in Ankara speaks of the “fight against terrorism” and emphasizes that their war of aggression is not about the war on the civilian population, but indiscriminate bombing of civilian settlements, looting and mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of people, arbitrary executions and the brutal abduction of hundreds of civilians speak a different language. The further the war against northern Syria progresses, the more it becomes clear, what Erdogan is really about, namely ethnic cleansing through the violent expulsion of millions of people and the long-term demographic change of the entire region.

For more information please visit riseup4rojava.org

Bristol Cable podcast on the Cowfolk

Posted by on Nov 6, 2019 in Club News | 0 comments

Listen: When football meets anti-fascism – The Easton Cowgirls and Cowboys

Cowboys in Umm Al Khair

Posted by on Nov 6, 2019 in Club News | 0 comments

In cooperation with the Easton Cowboys, HIRN has rehabilitated the soccer
playground at Umm Al Khair Bedouin community.

We have replaced the goals, placed nets on them and bought a uniform for the Umm Al Khair soccer team.

After putting the goals up, a game of soccer took place. We all won !!!!!

There’s nothing friendly about Israeli Apartheid

Posted by on Nov 6, 2019 in Club News | 0 comments

An open letter from the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls Sports and Social Club

The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls stand in solidarity with our fellow footballers at Khadamat Rafah FC in Gaza and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel in calling on the Argentinian and Uruguayan national football teams to cancel their match due to take place in Israel on 18th November.

The “friendly” between Argentina and Uruguay is planned to take place in Tel Aviv, part of a campaign by Israel to use championship teams and players to ‘sports-wash’ its regime of occupation, apartheid and oppression.

We call on players of both teams to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle, to boycott the match and not travel to Israel.

Both our men’s and women’s football teams have visited the West Bank of Palestine. We have met footballers unable to follow their passion due to travel and other restrictions placed on them by the occupying military regime of Israel. We have witnessed the harassment, oppression and human rights abuses taking place with our own eyes.

In the words of Khadamat Rafah FC: do “not… allow the beautiful game to be used as cover for gross human rights violations”.

Signed: the members of Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls Sports and Social Club.

For more information and to sign a letter of support, see: https://bdsmovement.net/argentina-uruguay

To read the open letter from Khadamat Rafah FC, visit: https://bdsmovement.net/news/gaza-championship-football-team-urges-argentina-and-uruguay-national-teams-cancel-friendly

And for coverage of their cancelled match: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/football-final-cancelled-israel-denies-gaza-team-travel-permit-190925133252447.html

Bristol Community Kickabout

Posted by on Aug 31, 2019 in Community News, Diary | 0 comments

A monthly gathering of Cowfolk, their friends and families to build
community and get to know each other through an informal, non-competitive
football match. We would also like to to reach out to refugee and asylum
seeking groups to see if there would be an interest in getting to know each
other through football. Happening on the last Sunday of every month, meet
at the Netham Park Pavillion at 2pm. This is an inclusive setting where all
are welcome to play mixed football, but this is not obligatory. Please
bring some drinks and food to share for after the match, kid friendly.

The next gathering on Sunday, July 28th.

For the Facebookers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2259400407662705/