Showing articles from the year 2014
Clear filterSome of you may have long suspected that football fans are treated differently from other sports fans and concert goers; now, with the help of someone from the inside, we can reveal the extent to which football fans are treated differently at the home of football. To preserve the writer’s anonymity, we can refer to him only as ‘the Secret Wembley Steward’. He gives us his tale below:
We all have our favourite types of finish – some prefer a sweetly struck half-volley, for others it’s cheeky lob, while everyone can appreciate the insouciance of a backheeled finish. This goal from Marechal Rondon futsal player Márcio combines all three, with a hat-tip to @james_dart for bringing this superb effort to our attention…
Pubs in the area of Wembley Stadium will be designated to specific sets of supporters for the Community Shield on Sunday 10th August. Check out the information below to avoid any pub-based confusion. Manchester City have been allocated pubs on the east side of the stadium, while Arsenal have been given pubs on the west side of the stadium.
Non-League Day, the campaign to promote semi-professional and amateur football, returns for a fifth consecutive season on Saturday 6th September 2014.
You have to go a long way to see a goal like this. Manchester United went all the way to America for their pre-season tour, but their plane wasn’t the only long distance flying object they saw this week. Take a bow Miralem Pjanic, for your hefty effort for Roma.
Jim Keoghan is the author of Punk Football: the rise of fan ownership in English football, which is published by Pitch Publishing. He writes of “a tale that might not have the glitz or the glamour of the Premier League, but the rise of supporter power and that change in what it now means to be a ‘fan’ is still a story that needed to be told.”
It is a chant to warm the cockles of your heart: “Ormering, ormering, we’re the famous Guernsey FC and we’re going ormering.”
A cross-party group of Welsh Assembly members have penned an open letter to Helen Grant MP, Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities, calling for a pilot of safe standing.
Luton schoolchildren learnt what it takes to be world champions in an innovative project which combined their love of football with their studies.
More than 300 fans came together on Saturday (26th July) for the Supporters Summit at Wembley, jointly organised by the Football Supporters’ Federation and Supporters Direct.
We’re only a week or two into pre-season and we already have a goal of the season contender. Running full pelt, Serbian Young Boys midfielder Milan Gajic takes a half-volley beautifully in his stride and slams it in from 25 yards. Except something’s wrong. Very wrong.
Newcastle United fans gathered at St James’s Park this afternoon to pay their respects to John Alder and Liam Sweeney. Both fans lost their lives when the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, on which they were travelling to watch their team’s friendly games in New Zealand, was shot down over Ukraine.
Kick It Out will be shining a spotlight on grassroots and community activity during its second successive ‘Season of Action’ which runs from August 2014 to May 2015.
Two Newcastle United fans were among the 298 victims on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. John Alder and Liam Sweeney were travelling to watch their team play in New Zealand.
There’s only a week to go until the FSF and Supporters Direct ‘Supporters Summit’ at Wembley stadium. Quite apart from hosting the AGM of both organisations (on the evening of Friday 25th July), the Supporters Summit on Saturday 26th July is a great opportunity for fans to shape the campaigns and future of both organisations throughout the coming year.
Credit to zee Germans for a well deserved World Cup win AND the cheesiest celebrations seen at the Berlin Wall since Hasselhoff. Sunglasses at the ready for a rousing air guitar rendition of Seven Nation Army. Cringe (although we’re sure the World Cup is adequate compensation for our feeble mocking).
On Saturday thousands of Sky Blues fans hit the streets to demand their team return to Coventry (see the video below). FSF affiliates Sky Blues Trust organised the demo and have been working hard to return their club home. Their open letter below was sent to all parties involved in the Ricoh Arena dispute – ACL, Coventry City Council, Otium, SISU, and the Football League…
Looking after England fans at the World Cup is a complex, multi-agency job involving two Government departments, the FA, UK Football Policing Unit, ACPO, and the FSF. The Foreign Office have just released details of the consular assistance they provided to England fans during the World Cup in Brazil and they explain more of their work below…
