Showing articles from the year 2014
Clear filterIs football losing a generation of fans? Harry Fairman (@HarryFairman) is a 16-year-old Palace fan who’s often forced to pay sky high prices to follow his team – £42 at West Ham United. Harry says the game is at risk of losing its young supporters by charging extortionate prices for children still in education.
Twelve Leeds United fans have reluctantly discontinued a claim against Greater Manchester Police which stemmed from an incident on 3rd January 2010.
The Football Supporters’ Federation has teamed up with The Blizzard – The Football Quarterly to offer a prize-winning fantasy football game throughout the 2013/14 season. Entry is totally free using the official Premier League game and there’ll be weekly, monthly and yearly prizes.
Football club owners and CEOs are always quick to tell us fans that we can’t halt the onward march of progress. Stadiums, strips and club names are apparently up for grabs, all in the name of the free market and modernity. Don’t like it? Then you can die as soon as you like…
The FA has today (Monday 17th March) launched the Reporting Discrimination campaign – a series of short films designed to help you help us eradicate discrimination from the beautiful game.
Alison Gurden is a lawyer who works with the FSF and has defended many football fans, including those caught with pyro. She has concerns with current legislation but says “whether or not I agree with the law as it stands…possession of pyro remains an offence”.
Sky News are reporting that the Football Association’s Membership Committee has rejected Hull City owner Assem Allam’s bid to rebrand the club Hull Tigers. The news will receive a rapturous reception among fans and the FA deserves great credit for coming to the correct conclusion.
The below is a statement on behalf of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust
Kick It Out, in conjunction with Manchester Jewish Museum, is hosting a debate on the ‘Y-Word’ and the issue of anti-semitism in football at the National Football Museum on Tuesday 8th April 2014.
The Home Office has today (Thursday 13th March 2014) launched a two week consultation on the proposal to relax licensing hours for England matches in this year’s World Cup. The consultation is open until 11:59pm on 26th March.
An array of Cardiff City fans’ groups and forums have joined forces to march for their “heritage and tradition” before the club’s home game against Liverpool on Saturday 22nd March.
Norwich City supporters are the latest to give the thumbs up to safe standing following a survey by fans’ group Barclay End Projekt. 89% of 853 respondents gave their backing to a safe standing trial at a top-flight English ground.
Every month the Football Supporters’ Federation features an affiliate or associate member to highlight good work carried out by fans. If you’d like to appear email [email protected], this month it’s the turn of Kidderminster Harriers Independent Supporters Trust (KHIST). We spoke to Chairman Geoff Coles about their general work and fundraising activities…
In past seasons we’ve been very critical of clubs who are happy to take TV’s money, even if it means games are moved and away fans lose out on pre-booked travel and hotel costs. So we were interested to read that Portsmouth refunded fans’ travel and hotel costs after the club’s game at Chesterfield was moved from Saturday 1st to Monday 3rd March for TV. We spoke to Pompey CEO Mark Catlin to find out more.
The Football Supporters’ Federation has teamed up with The Blizzard – The Football Quarterly to offer a prize-winning fantasy football game throughout the 2013/14 season. Entry is totally free using the official Premier League game and there’ll be weekly, monthly and yearly prizes.
The FSF works with Kick It Out and Level Playing Field, and both organisations are recruiting. If you’d like to work for either organisation see the links below for details and deadlines.
The decision of Arsenal’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) to refuse full away allocations for the club’s home FA Cup games caused a great deal of anger from travelling supporters. Groups such as the Blue Union, Spirit of Shankly, and Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust have been very vocal in their criticism and the general principle is spot on – away fans should be given full allocations unless there are truly exceptional circumstances.
A number of Manchester United fans have alleged the club is threatening to suspend their season ticket for March’s derby with Manchester City… unless they buy tickets for the club’s Champions League home tie with Olympiacos.
