Duleep Allirajah
football writer; longterm spiked contributor; co-founder, Libero! network; season ticket holder, Crystal Palace

Duleep Allirajah is a football writer and long time contributor to Spiked. He co-founded the Libero! network which campaigned against the increasing regulation of football fan conduct. Duleep has written on a wide range of social and cultural issues as seen through the prism of sport including racism and national identity, violence on and off the field, sportsmen as role models, and the commercialisation of football. He is a season ticket holder at Crystal Palace and hates public weeping at football, the wearing of jester’s hats and open-top bus parades for runners-up.

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