32 teams of football supporters will descend on the University of Central Lancashire’s Sports Arena to battle it out at WorldNET 2013 starting on Friday 19th July.
Showing articles from the year 2013
Clear filter32 teams of football supporters will descend on the University of Central Lancashire’s Sports Arena to battle it out at WorldNET 2013 starting on Friday 19th July.
Sky and BT have little interest in match-going fans, except as window dressing for their broadcast, but they could make things a whole lot easier for us. So argues Jamie Redfearn…
The Safe Standing Roadshow is looking for volunteers as it visits the FA’s football HQ at St George’s Park (Burton). The FSF works closely with the Roadshow and it’s been instrumental in persuading clubs to back the Safe Standing Campaign.
Sunday Mirror Sports Editor David Walker has always been a friend of the FSF so we’re more than happy to give his new book There’s Only One Arthur Bottom a little plug. We’ve got a copy to give away to one lucky fan too, read on…
Stephen Browett is co-owner and co-chairman at Crystal Palace, a club which communicates with fans better than most. Stephen regularly answers questions on www.cpfc.org and Palace topped the FSF’s 2012 Club Charter League Table.
Statement on Coventry City’s potential groundshare with Northampton Town.
Here’s a rather nifty little video courtesy of the FA which they showed at our Supporters Summit. It’s a run down of 150 years’ worth of English football history, all shown at a whippet-like pace. It’s worth two and a half minutes of anyone’s time.
Spurs have signed a deal with StubHub making them the club’s “Official Ticket Resale Marketplace partner”. They aren’t the only club to use secondary ticket agencies but the move has stirred complaints among fans. In an article which originally appeared on www.thstofficial.com journalist Martin Cloake (AOL, New Statesman, The Blizzard) explains why he’s opposed to such deals…
Accrington Stanley are heading for Europe… in an old £250 banger. Club staff are setting off on the mammoth trip on Friday 12th July to raise funds to improve facilities for fans.
Arsenal blogger Vic Crescit wonders if the bracing sea air hasn’t made a few Cherries board members a bit light-headed in signing up Real Madrid for a pre-season visit to Dean Court…
At the recent Supporters Summit FSF affiliate member the Gay Football Supporters’ Network presented a workshop on homophobia in football and a motion was passed to work with GFSN on creating an action plan for fans to tackle the issue. But who are GFSN and what do they do? Find out more…
Ian Todd, the FSF representative on the Fixtures Working Party, sheds some light on the process by which ‘the fixure computer’ comes up with something that never fails to cause grief and annoyance for some…
On Saturday 22nd June the Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) teamed up with our friends at Supporters Direct (SD) to bring fans together at St. George’s Park, Burton, which is the FA’s football centre. Around 300 fans attended.
Didn’t think you could be sent off for a poor first touch? Think again. Ukrainian U21 captain Olesandr Noyok receives his second booking just four seconds after his first yellow. Why? A terrible first touch of course.
Kick It Out, The Work Foundation and 7 Bedford Row are hosting a free seminar on current business examples which prove the benefits of diversifying your workforce.
Bristol City could become the first club in Britain to incorporate safe standing rail seat areas into their ground if a proposed £40m development of Ashton Gate goes ahead (rail seats take up the lower tier in the above image).
Wycombe Wanderers are the 25th club to officially back the Football Supporters’ Federation’s Safe Standing Campaign. The campaign has support from the top to the bottom of professional football in the English league system.
South Africa look set to miss out on Brazil 2014 thanks to a bullet header from Bernard Parker…into his own goal. “Oh my God,” the Kaizer Chiefs striker almost certainly didn’t say as it ripped past his own keeper.
Writing in Wednesday’s Independent, Football Supporters’ Federation Chief Executive Kevin Miles (left) explained why hundreds of fans came together to march on the Premier League’s HQ and why it’s in the clubs’ interests to listen…
