LONDON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ — Unite, Britain’s biggest union and one of the main sponsors of ‘Show
Racism the Red Card’ has welcomed the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown’s decision
to host The Red Card Hall of Fame awards ceremony at 10 Downing Street on
12th May, 6pm.

Joint General Secretaries, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley will both
attend the awards ceremony.

Show Racism the Red Card is now in it’s 12th year. The Hall of Fame
awards have been designed to recognise the contribution high profile role
models have given to the fight against racism.

Tony Woodley, Joint General Secretary of Unite says,

“We are extremely proud to be one of the main sponsors of ‘Show Racism
the Red Card’. This event gives us the opportunity to pay tribute to those
people who are working to eradicate the scourge of racism in sport.”
Derek Simpson, Joint General of Unite says,

“We’ve come a long way, but unfortunately racism in sport is still going
on. ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ does an extremely important job in educating
young people and using footballers as anti-racist role models.”
Unite the Union