Showing articles from the year 2018
Clear filterStan Kroenke has launched a £1.8bn bid to take over Arsenal Football Club much to the despair of the Arsenal Supporters Trust, with the news that shares of supporters will be forcibly removed representing a significant change in Arsenal’s history and the relationship between the supporters and the club.
Maria Horner, the FSF’s newest member of staff, tells us why she wants to hear from fans, supporter groups and clubs to promote diversity at non-league level…
This weekend Shrewsbury Town unveiled a new rail-seating section at New Meadow, the first to be used in the history of professional football in England. Here Jon Darch, from the Safe Standing Roadshow, tells us what that means for the standing campaign…
In the weeks following the world’s most spectacular of sporting events, football’s World Cup, perhaps inevitably, American minds ponder recurring feelings about it’s notable absentee, the United States.
LA Galaxy’s Michael Ciani treats us to a stylish own goal for this week’s And finally… Ciani tied himself in knots before back-heeling the ball into his own net. Luckily, an unknown Swedish striker scored a hat-trick to save the game for LA.
Below is a joint statement from the Football Supporters’ Federation and Supporters Direct following the decisions taken by their respective members last weekend:
Tottenham Hotspur fans are unhappy with the price of season tickets at their new ground, according to a survey by Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust (THST).
New Lodge, home to Billericay Town has been added to the long list of sports grounds registered as an Asset of Community Value.
A new coalition of Newcastle United supporter groups have written a letter to the club’s owner urging him to sell the club as soon as possible.
Football fans from across the country gathered at the Royal National Hotel in London last Saturday (28th July) for the FSF’s 2018 AGM to discuss another 12 months of campaigning and propose new policies for the organisation on a range of issues affecting match-going fans. Below is a summary of the 2018 AGM…
The FSF Annual Review, presented and accepted at the FSF annual conference in London this weekend, is now available to download.
We love it when a ‘keeper goes up for a corner in the dying moments of a game. And we love it even more when they’re exposed on the counter. Here, Clint Dempsey almost makes the San Jose Earthquakes pay…
The debate surrounding the cost of policing football was raging again this week as the BBC revealed how much forces across the country spend.
Cardiff City supporters recently said goodbye to long-serving Trust member Brian Mertens, who has died at the age of 66. Tim Hartley pays tribute to a founding member of the Cardiff Trust and one of the great advocates of the trust movement.
VAR has many detractors (and we don’t have an official position on it as yet), but Rosenborg’s match against Valur in a Champions League qualifier this week shows us why the debate around the technology isn’t going away anytime soon.
The 2018 FSF AGM is just over a week away and the delegate pack for the event is available to download now.
Standing is a hot topic at the moment and its popularity continues to grow. But what do young fans think? Sunderland fan Luke Rose went along to the Stadium of the Light to talk to the club about the future of standing on Wearside…
Supporters Direct have teamed up with the Football Business Awards this year and we are currently collecting nominations for the ‘Best Club/Supporter Group Relationship’.
The sale of Wembley to fund grassroots football would be a “short term play” and not improve community access to football in the long run, according to former-England defender Gary Neville.
Supporter representatives from the EFL’s three divisions met league officials on Friday 25th May 2018. The meeting took place under the auspices of the Football Supporters’ Federation as part of the EFL’s commitment to fan engagement, which includes bi-annual group meetings.
