Showing articles from the year 2008
Clear filterThe Football Supporters’ Federation has recently launched a Northeast Division, meeting this Thursday 21st August at the Irish Centre inNewcastle at 7.30pm. The venue (Irish Centre,43-49 Gallowgate Street,NE1 4SG) is close to St. James and Monument Metro stations. The division has representation from across the region and beyond (we even let in the odd NE-basedHalifax fan).
Barcelona and Zagreb should be familiar to regular England followers as they visited both in the doomed Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, with neither bringing especially fond memories.
Chelsea and England star Joe Cole hopes the Premier League will scrap its proposals to play competitive domestic matches abroad.
Here at FSF Towers we love nothing better than an online football game as we’re always keen to use our considerable expertise (honest) to win a few prizes. This year we’ve hooked up with two of the best online games around and guaranteed some fantastic prizes for FSF mini-league members in the process, including flights to New York for one of our competition winners! Best of all, they’re both entirely free to enter.
The Football Supporters’ Federation is calling on the Premier League to clarify the current position regarding its Fit and Proper Persons Test for potential owners of Premier League clubs.
The Football Supporters’ Federation is extremely disappointed to learn of Portsmouth FCs new ticketing scheme. From the start of next season those supporters wishing to buy tickets to watch their team against the ‘big four’, as well as Spurs, Newcastle and West Ham, must also buy combined tickets for ‘coupled’ games.
England fans have been warned to get their visa applications for Belarus as soon as possible as the Football Supporters’ Federation has learned that prices are to rise by £50. Consular processing changes are to blame for the rise although fans may still be able to secure visas and vouchers at the old rate if they act quickly.
England fans have been warned to get their visa applications for Belarus as soon as possible as the Football Supporters’ Federation has learned that prices are to rise by £60. Consular processing changes are to blame for the rise although fans may still be able to secure visas and vouchers at the old rate if they act quickly.
For those of you with an unquenchable thirst for stats and facts the FSF has hooked up with a few publishers and secured discounts on 2008-09 football year books for our FanMail recipients, should you be interested, including The Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2008-09 (formerly Rothmans), Playfair Annual 08-09 and the Nationwide Football Annual 2008-09.
Planning to let the train take the strain as you travel to pre-season friendly or over the next fortnight or so?
ENGLAND fans planning to travel to Belarus for the World Cup qualifier in Belarus on October 15, 2008, are reminded they will require a valid Belarusian visa.
ENGLAND AND WALES fans planning to travel to Belarus or Russia for their respective World Cup qualifiers are reminded that they will need a visa to enter the countries.
Fans across England are once again letting off steam on message boards and newspaper letter-pages as news filtered through of the Premier League’s re-scheduled kick-off times.
The FSF Fans’ Parliament is over for another year, and we’re pleased to say it was a great success with hundreds of football supporters turning up to see Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP speak on his experiences as Sports Minister and the 2018 World Cup bid. This was followed by a very encouraging speech from Lord Triesman, Chairman of the FA. A
News has just arrived that The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media can no longer make Fans’ Parliament due to unforeseen commitments which is obviously a disappointing development as we were looking forward to a good debate with Burnham, who follows Everton.
So none of the home nations qualified, still, what a tournament from start to finish. And it’s been pretty great to see a team who actually throw caution to the wind win the thing. Combined with Manchester United’s double hopefully it’ll persuade managers that negativity isn’t a necessity. Anyway, here at the FSF we’re always looking for a way to (legitimately!) waste an hour or two, so thought we’d pull together a few bits and bobs on Euro 08. If you disagree with any of our choices please email someone else about it, cheers!
With Fans’ Parliament (FP) less than a week away we thought we would upload some more FP related goodness for you members to feast your eyes upon!
Encouraging news as it’s came to our attention that the Lib Dems intend to debate safe standing at their conference (follow this link to their conference paper, page 23). This means that it could become part of an election campaign. Well how can I have any influence on this you may ask? Easy.
Here at the FSF we were interested to read Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe’s comments yesterday in response to Denis Murphy MP’s question on the issue of safe standing, a campaign we have been running for some time.
