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Argyle Fans’ Trust has called an emergency meeting to take place tomorrow (Saturday 13th August) with fans fearing their club is teetering on the brink of existence. Potential new owner Peter Ridsdale will appear at the Save Our Club meeting along with the club’s joint administrator Brendan Guilfoyle.

Bizarre shenanigans over in the United States and we’re not just talking about the indignity of playing on an American football pitch. This keeper seems to think the best way to put a player off is to do a few girlish handstands – Bruce Grobbelaar eat your heart out. But how do you think the penalty taker gets his own back?

Wrexham FC fans have raised £127,000 in one day to save their club from potential oblivion. Following financial difficulties the Football Conference had threatened to throw the Welsh club out of the Blue Square Bet Premier. However, this nightmare scenario has been avoided as Wrexham FC have been given the green light to compete.

Tomorrow’s friendly (Wednesday, 10th August) against the Netherlands has been called off by the FA following police advice. England were due to face the World Cup runners up at Wembley but following three nights of rioting in areas of London the game has been cancelled.

England’s friendly (Wednesday 10th August) against the Netherlands has been called off by the FA following police advice. England were due to face the World Cup runners up at Wembley but following three nights of rioting in areas of London the game has been cancelled.

With tricky trips to Bulgaria (Sofia) and Wembley in the coming months the hard working bunch at FSF Cymru took the opportunity to meet with the Welsh FA on Thursday 4th August. These regular meetings aim to boost understanding and communication between fans and the FAW.

Back issues of Free Lions are available to purchase from the FSF, including the latest post-World Cup issues 107-115. Simply call 0330 44 000 44 with your credit/debit card to hand and we’ll take your order. (Please note some early issues are now out of stock.)

A few years back a Francesco Totti back-heeled penalty was doing the rounds. It was simultaneously arrogant, playful, fluid, and (most of all) skilfull. Anyway, over in the Middle East Awana Diab was taking notes and tries the same in UAB’s 6-2 win over Lebanon. Diab’s version is stuttering, slow, weak, and funny. To be fair it does trickle in but what’s the keeper doing?

The FSF believes that football’s governing bodies should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI). Sport’s governing bodies should be held accountable in the same manner as government departments, local councils, and civil servants.

The Austrian season’s kicked off already and it’s off to an astonishing start with the first goal of the season scored by a keeper. SV Mattersburg v SC Wiener Neustadt was only two minutes old when the away side’s keeper Joerg Siebenhandl lined up an innocuous looking free-kick just outside his own box. One massive punt upfield later and it was nestling in the back of SV Mattersburg’s net. Who says the long ball game doesn’t work?

The Football Supporters’ Federation welcomes the Report on Football Governance from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, and broadly backs its proposals. We are pleased to see the committee shares our view that substantive reform is required from the game’s governing body, and we back the proposals for the restructuring of the FA Board.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter paved the way for goalline technology to be introduced in the Premier League from as early as next season at a press conference ahead of the draw for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Ever wondered what it would look like if it only took one minute to build a stadium? Us neither but that didn’t stop us being impressed by this rather excellent video of the PGE Arena in Gdańsk (Poland) being constructed for Euro 2012. Days and seasons fly by in the blink of an eye.

Football industry magazine FC Business has launched a new campaign to scrap the laws which currently make it illegal to consume alcohol within sight of the pitch. FC Business says it intends to lobby for the support of all league Chairmen, Chief Executives, and Stadium Safety Managers, to change laws which discriminate against football fans.

A Barnsley fan has been awarded £3,750 compensation by South Yorkshire Police after he was bitten by a police dog and served with a Section 27 order on his way to Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane. The incident occurred on Saturday 3rd April 2010 and came to the attention of the Football Supporters’ Federation after 22-year-old Aaron Webber* contacted the FSF saying he had done nothing at all to deserve such extreme treatment.

The Supporters Direct Fans’ Weekend, encompassing the Annual Conference and Fans’ Day, and sponsored by long-term backers The Co-operative, gets underway today (Friday 15th July) at the Queen Hotel, Chester. The event takes place against the backdrop of the upcoming report on the inquiry into the governance of football, recently undertaken by the Parliamentary Select Committee for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. How can the coalition government best fulfil its pledge to ‘encourage the reform of football governance rules to support the co-operative ownership of football clubs by supporters’?

Yossi Benayoun hasn’t had the best of years since moving from Merseyside to West London. An injury hit season restricted him to only 209 league minutes but if his pre-season is anything to go by 2011/12 might be a little kinder to him. Check out his frankly ludicrous goal against Wycombe Wanderers in a closed door friendly earlier this week. Brilliant.

FSF Cymru is planning a meeting with the Football Association of Wales (FAW) sometime in the next few weeks. The meeting will most likely take place on Friday 29th July at 2.30pm in Cardiff. If any FSF members would like to attend email Paul Corkrey.

The inaugural Football Supporters’ Federation’s Football Writers Awards in association with Cult Zeros took place on Saturday evening (9th July) and what a night it was. Two hundred fans travelled to The Tabernacle in Notting Hill, London, to see awards handed out across six categories and the FSF was also very proud to hand out two Outstanding Contribution awards.