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Whitby Town usually host a biannual charity game involving locals and visiting goths. Now the friendships that have been forged are helping the club survive
Football’s unlikeliest fixture began as many of the very best ideas do, as a drunken bet. Yet the magnificently monikered clash known as El Gothico has lasted long after the hangover. This biannual meeting of goths and Whitby locals has fostered emotional ties that span beyond football, beyond music. As the game feels the financial pinch of lockdown, the friendships formed since Real Gothic began playing Athletico Gazette resonate with a feelgood factor that is making a real difference at Whitby Town FC and banishing the gloomy goth stereotypes.
First and last and always in the tale of El Gothico is Jon Stokoe, a cheery, far from eldritch character who became a junior reporter at the Whitby Gazette in 1995. He arrived at the paper one year after the first Whitby Goth Weekend, which has become a twice-yearly celebration of the music scene that has, appropriately, refused to die. Continue reading...