On Saturday 11 June Momentum will be teaming up with Philosophy Football to start a new project: Momentum Football.

From 4.30 pm at El Vergel, 132 Webber Street, London SE1 0QL we’ll be building up to England’s first Euro 2016 match against Russia with talks, singing and special guests, before showing the game live at 8 pm.

Our pre-match special guest on the punditry sofa will be none other than Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, reflecting on what football and England mean to him and his politics.

In preparation for the game, Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football and editor of the superb new book 1966 and Not All That introduces the first in Momentum's People’s PPE of Football series. The theme ‘Football, England and the Big Match: Sporting Nationalism vs Popular Internationalism’ will be debated by a great selection of exciting panellists: David Goldblatt (The Game of our Lives, winner 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), Richard Weight (cultural historian), Claus Melchior (German football fanzine Der Tödliche Pass), Argentine football writer Marcela Mora y Araujo, Tom Perez (co-Director Football Beyond Borders) and Carrie Dunn (Roar of the Lionesses: Woman's Football in England). And, of course…you.

Our pre-match build-up concludes with a vote on whether England should have an anthem of its own. There will be Latino food, drink and Philosophy Football and Momentum T-shirts. And then…the big game itself, with John McDonnell and others providing half-time and post-match analysis of the sort you’ve never heard before. It will be a great way to start the Euros and a new way to talk politics.

Jeremy Corbyn’s unlikely Labour leadership bid and Leicester City’s even more unlikely Premiership campaign shows that the remarkable can happen and another future is possible. Momentum Football wants to contribute to that different future. We seek to establish a broad alliance of football fans, players, teams and organisations that, not only want to make football more inclusive, democratic and fair but also want to use football itself as a force for social, political and economic change.

Join John McDonnell and us on June 11 to share ideas about how we can make this happen.