Social Clubs: Old ideas, new solutions

Social Clubs: Old ideas, new solutions

As our high streets empty out, and we lose more and more of our community spaces, we in the co-operative movement know that sometimes it’s the old ideas that can be the most progressive solutions for our times. Bar and brewery closures have been a staple feature of the decline of our towns since the financial crash, but it’s in that sector that we’ll find one of the co-operative movement’s best kept secrets. A national federation of bars, each o…

Since he arrived at Deportivo Laferrerere, Pablo Nieva did not stop. He purged the plant, hired the guys he wanted -the majority sub 23-, promoted the club's kids, made the preseason, outlined the team according to his idea of play and debuted at the head of a First Division board for the first time. The first games were hard (three consecutive defeats), because the First B does not forgive you the mistakes, but, little by little, he was finding…