Stroud Park Walking Football Tournament
for Stroud Food Bank
Monday May 4 2026
Centenary Commemoration of the General Strike
May 4th 1926
STRATFORD PARK MONDAY MAY 4th 2026
9.25 -11.25
A unique event happened towards the end of the strike. A football match was held in Plymouth between the police and a team of strikers. The match was kicked off by the wife of the chief constable and thousands were in attendance. The strikers won by two goals to one.
Stroud Park Walking Football Club will be echoing that match from 1926 and echoing how football matches in 1926 often acted as fund-raisers for the destitute. We shall be raising funds for the Stroud Foodbank exactly 100 years to the day since the start of the General Strike.
Six teams will also echo the names of key participants and newspapers in the General Strike: Stanley Baldwin FC (the prime minister) Arthur Cook FC (miners’ leader) Winston Churchill FC (editor of the government newspaper, the British Gazette) Jimmy Thomas FC (TUC leader who wanted to avert the strike) British Gazette FC British Worker FC (Trade Union newspaper).
Feel free to come along and watch walking football and contribute to this fund-raiser if you so wish.
Here is a link to give you context to that 1926 football match if you are interested:
https://radicalstroud.co.uk/football-and-the-general-strike/