AFC Liverpool Support Memorial Tournament
Sun 3rd July 2011 | AFC Liverpool | By Ian Templeman
AFC Liverpool successfully teamed up with Liverpool Community College to organise the annual Anthony Walker Memorial Shield Football Tournament on 25th May.
The club supported the event and supplied bottles of water, a player of the tournament trophy and two referees, and the day was again hailed a huge success by all involved.
Anthony Walker, who was a Black British A-level student from Huyton, Merseyside, a Christian and a keen basketball player, was brutally murdered in a racially motivated attack on 30 July 2005 near McGoldrick Park in Huyton. The crime shocked Anthony's community, as well as the people of Liverpool, and gained widespread national publicity.
The tournament, which took place on UEFA's Grassroots Football Day at Kensington Sports Centre, Liverpool, was organised with the aim being to promote the message kick racism out of football”.
Paul McCombs, AFC Liverpool's Vice Chair and Community Officer, stressed the message in his opening address to the students at the tournament.
It is the perfect opportunity to bring together so many good things in football; the Respect Campaign, one game one community, and grassroots football in memory of Anthony Walker.”
Eight diverse teams from across the college competed in the tournament and the overall winners were Nike 5, a group of students from Clarence Street and Vauxhall Road Centres who beat runners up LCC boys, sport students from Vauxhall Road.
Anthony Walker's mother Gee expressed her pleasure in such an event taking place. Please convey my gratitude to the organisers of the Anthony Walker memorial football tournament with a vision to promote racial harmony amongst our young people.
"I am really hopeful that through Anthony's legacy of acceptance and tolerance they are impacting lives by doing the things they enjoy. It is really comforting to know so many are playing a part in what my son enjoyed and what he would have doing had he lived."
AFC Liverpool Support Memorial Tournament
Sun 3rd July 2011 | AFC Liverpool
By Ian Templeman
AFC Liverpool successfully teamed up with Liverpool Community College to organise the annual Anthony Walker Memorial Shield Football Tournament on 25th May.
The club supported the event and supplied bottles of water, a player of the tournament trophy and two referees, and the day was again hailed a huge success by all involved.
Anthony Walker, who was a Black British A-level student from Huyton, Merseyside, a Christian and a keen basketball player, was brutally murdered in a racially motivated attack on 30 July 2005 near McGoldrick Park in Huyton. The crime shocked Anthony's community, as well as the people of Liverpool, and gained widespread national publicity.
The tournament, which took place on UEFA's Grassroots Football Day at Kensington Sports Centre, Liverpool, was organised with the aim being to promote the message kick racism out of football”.
Paul McCombs, AFC Liverpool's Vice Chair and Community Officer, stressed the message in his opening address to the students at the tournament.
It is the perfect opportunity to bring together so many good things in football; the Respect Campaign, one game one community, and grassroots football in memory of Anthony Walker.”
Eight diverse teams from across the college competed in the tournament and the overall winners were Nike 5, a group of students from Clarence Street and Vauxhall Road Centres who beat runners up LCC boys, sport students from Vauxhall Road.
Anthony Walker's mother Gee expressed her pleasure in such an event taking place. Please convey my gratitude to the organisers of the Anthony Walker memorial football tournament with a vision to promote racial harmony amongst our young people.
"I am really hopeful that through Anthony's legacy of acceptance and tolerance they are impacting lives by doing the things they enjoy. It is really comforting to know so many are playing a part in what my son enjoyed and what he would have doing had he lived."
