Tom Greatrex was elected FSA chair in July 2024, having served as vice chair since the organisation’s formation in 2018 when Supporters Direct and the Football Supporters’ Federation merged. Tom was previously chair of Supporters Direct. He also serves as a supporter representative on the FA Council.

Tom is a lifelong Fulham fan, having been “dragged along” to Craven Cottage 40 years ago, when their existence was under threat from property developers. Twenty years later, when Fulham’s owners secretly sold the ground while playing at Loftus Road, he founded the ultimately successful Back to the Cottage campaign, which became the Fulham Supporters’ Trust in 2003.

Having completed the 92, and the 42 in Scotland where he previously lived and worked, he tries to get to matches wherever work takes him around the world. He is also a regular visitor to Oxford United, the team closest to where he now lives.

Away from football Tom is CEO of the Nuclear Industry Association and was Labour MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2010-2015, while also serving as shadow energy minister.

Read more about Tom’s vision for the FSA here…

Chris Paouros is a business consultant, coach and anti-discrimination activist. She is vice-chair and trustee of Kick It Out, football’s anti-discrimination charity, sits on the FA’s Inclusion Advisory Board and is one of two FSA representatives on FA Council.

A life-long Spurs fan, she co-founded Women of the Lane, the club’s supporters’ association for women fans of the men’s game, the Proud Lilywhites, the club’s LGBTQI+ supporters’ association, and helped grow the LGBTQI+ fan movement nationally. She now chairs the Tottenham Hotspur Fan Advisory Board. Chris works across sport and business supporting senior leaders to build healthy, inclusive cultures in which everyone can thrive.

Heather is the current vice-chair of Charlton Athletic Supporters’ Trust. She is a charity trustee with a day job in advertising. She is motivated by clubs being a force for good at the heart of their communities and growing their impact beyond the pitch.

In the seven years since joining the Spirit of Shankly Management Committee, Joe has been both treasurer and chair before becoming chair of the LFC Supporters Board (FAB).

As chair, he led the Union on many successful local and national campaigns, (LFC attempt to trademark Liverpool, ESL and the fallout from the CL Final in Paris in 2022), holding LFC to account whilst at the same time building and maintaining constructive relationships with LFC, the FSA, FSE and football authorities.

Joe has worked alongside FSA colleagues on many developments over recent years and he is particularly proud to have led for the FSA on the eradication of tragedy chanting from football.

“I am very proud to represent the FSA, ensuring the FSA does what it always has, lead the way and rising to each and every challenge we face,” says Joe.

Tony Burnett is the former chief executive of football anti-discrimination charity Kick it Out. He is a very experienced business leader and a change specialist.

Tony has significant business leadership experience having worked for Greencore plc as a business unit managing director and Diageo plc in senior leadership roles within commercial functions and human resources. He also built and led his own consulting business for eight years working with a range of blue-chip clients across the UK, Ireland and Africa.

Tony has also held senior diversity and inclusion positions with West Midlands Police, Lloyds Banking Group and Ford Motor Company.

Tony holds a master’s degree in management from the University of Liverpool and a post-graduate diploma in Management from the University of Leicester. He is an enthusiastic leader within his local community where he acted as chair of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton and as a qualified UEFA Level 3 football coach, he worked with young people to develop their personal and sporting capabilities.

My experience:

• A volunteer since the formation of AFC Wimbledon in 2002, initially on turnstiles then for over ten years, managing the club shop,
• Currently one of the club’s supporter liaison officers.
• Two terms of two years each on the Dons Trust board,
• Several years of working on the election steering group.
• Attending Dons’ Trust SGMs and AGMs, as an ordinary member and board member.
• Served on the board and National Council of the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA); previously the Football Supporters’ Federation and also Supporters’ Direct.
• A member of the Metropolitan Police Independent Advisory Group for football.
• I conduct a biennial internal audit on the accounts of Football Supporters of Europe.
• I am a Trustee of Wimbledon in Sporting History.
• A ‘Gamesmaker’ at the 2012 Olympics where I was a team leader
• My day job is general manager of a charity which operates a listed heritage building.
• Previously I worked in retail for over 25 years as financial director of a high street retail chain

What I bring to the Board:

• A willingness to volunteer.
• Dedicated to democratic processes.
• I am committed to consultation, including supporter surveys, focus groups and especially to supporter engagement with all supporters.

As well as being on the FSA National Council and Board, Sarah is the co-founder and chair of the Fulham Lillies – a supporters’ group for women and girls that encourages supporter participation in both the men’s and women’s teams at Fulham.

Led by Sarah, the Lillies have also been looking at match day inclusion, particularly around young families and mothers with young children.

A report published by the Lillies examined the barriers facing new parents who want to take babies and infants to football. In recognition of her work within the supporter movement Sarah was awarded the Jacqui Forster Memorial Award in 2024 by the FSA.

Through following North Ferriby FC (and North Ferriby United) since 2015, I have witnessed non-league football at every level of the National League system. This gives me a unique insight into our pyramid.

In 2018/19 I led a campaign to resist plans to relocate and change the club’s name, with the support of the FSA. I’m the head honcho of an independent printed fanzine, View from the Allotment End, which I design and produce.

To date we have raised over £5k for local charities and the club.

My membership of the FSA Board is in my capacity as a member of the North Ferriby FC Supporters’ Club. I’m an active campaigner in support of fans’ interests.

Sachin with his daughter and Spurs legend Son Heung-min.

Sachin is a season ticket holder at Tottenham Hotspur and has followed them home and away as well as the national teams, and is a regular matchgoer with his young daughter.

Sachin co-founded Spurs REACH, the official race, ethnicity and cultural heritage supporters’ association at Tottenham Hotspur, as well as being a committee member for Apna England (the England supporters’ club for South Asians and its allies).

He is also an active contributor to the FSA’s Fans for Diversity network. To Sachin representation matters, whether it be on the pitch, in the boardroom or in the stands.

Christine is a lifelong, third generation supporter of Blackpool FC. She joined the committee of Blackpool Supporters’ Trust in 2015 and served as vice chair and then chair during the very dark days when Blackpool fans were boycotting the club to get rid of the Oystons. She is still on the BST committee.

Christine joined the FSA because of first hand experience of how football governance is not fit for purpose and says she feels privileged to serve as both a National Council member and Board member.

Christine lives on the Fylde Coast with her partner Andy (a season ticket holder at QPR) and their black labrador, Rufus, who is, of course, a Seasider.

Being born within the sound of the Bow Bells, Lee is a lifelong West Ham United fan and season ticket holder. Lee is a relatively recent addition to the football supporters movement and is a Hammers United Committee member and a FAB Ticketing subgroup member at West Ham United.

Lee is a firm believer in sustained pressure on issues that affect football fans, which was seen at West Ham with the near two-season campaign to rid the club of the regime that caused a breakdown of the relationship between the club and fans.

Lee is now retired and lives in Aldershot, Hampshire, with his wife Jackie and enjoys travelling the world, with sport being the excuse to visit different countries.

Robbie has been a Blackpool fan since the late 1960s and was an advisor to the Trust Board during the boycott.

Over the last five years he has worked on the FSA legislation team, drawing upon his professional experience of managing institutional failure in local Government.

His main aims now are to help the FSA in developing fan capacity and skills; and to assist in bringing more ethical investment into English football