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Watford FC are the latest club to publicly support the work of the FSA and BeGambleAware around safer gambling.

It was announced this morning that all Premier League and EFL games have been suspended until April 3rd due to the Coronavirus now impacting a number of English clubs. The FA has also suspended the Women’s Super League and FA Women’s Championship.

The Gooner fanzine, covering Arsenal for the last 33 years, have launched a campaign drive to secure the publication’s future.

The bumbling, Clouseauesque star of this week’s #ICYMI is Grenoble Foot 38’s Brice Maubleu. The Frenchman put his side 2-0 nil down shortly after conceding the first with a catastrophic blunder.

With England’s She Believes Cup campaign getting underway shortly, as part of our Free Lionesses service we’ve pulled together some useful links and information for fans who might be making the journey out to the USA to cheer on Phil Neville’s side, who are aiming to retain the trophy they won in 2019. 

League Two club Oldham Athletic are the latest EFL club facing a financial crisis and supporters say they’re being kept in the dark.

Thousands of West Ham United fans turned out ahead of their game against Southampton at the weekend to protest against the club’s increasingly unpopular owners.

The She Believes Cup kicks off this week, but there are likely to be fewer England fans following the team at the annual invitational tournament organised by US Soccer than previously. 

Earlier this month the elected supporter representatives on the FSA’s National Council (NC) met to discuss the organisation’s ongoing work.

Wolves progressed through the to the last-16 of the Europa League with relative ease this week, beating Espanyol 6-3 over the course of two games. Their Portuguese winger Pedro Neto had a glorious chance to round the tie off in style for the midlands club but made a total hash of an open-goal chance. Plonker.

Welcome to the second newsletter of 2020 – which will of course be concentrating on the build up to Euro 2020 but we’ll first be looking at the minutes of our recent meeting with the Welsh FA (FAW).

Level Playing Field’s ‘Weeks of Action’, which help highlight the positive initiatives undertaken by clubs, sporting venues and their governing bodies to improve access for disabled fans, will run from Saturday 29th February to Sunday 15th March.

Supporter representatives from across Europe met in Belgium recently following the launch of the continent-wide “Fans Matter” supporter engagement campaign.

Manchester United fans have written to the Mayor of Bruges over the treatment they received in the Belgian city during their Europa League fixture last week.

This season saw the introduction of VAR into an English league for the first time and it’s fair to say it has not been well received. The FSA will have more work on VAR coming up in future, but for now here’s Neil Dady from the Wolves Fans’ Parliament talking about the impact it’s had on match-going fans…

You may be surprised to learn that Ryan Babel is still playing football and similarly (and pleasantly) surprised to see him taking the mick out of one of the most irritating parts of the modern game – feigning injury. After going shoulder-to-shoulder with Babel, Getafe’s Allan Nyom throws himself to the ground in comically over-the-top agony. Needless to say our former Liverpool and Fulham man was not impressed.

It’s not unusual for clubs to groundshare at non-league level. While each set of circumstances is unique, it is always distressing when a club is torn away from its local community and left with no option to play away from their traditional home. 

Bristol City are set to become the latest club to provide their supporters with standing accommodation after they unveiled plans to install just under 1,200 rail seats at Ashton Gate.

A ground-breaking survey of non-league clubs carried out by the FSA and disability campaign group Level Playing Field has shown disability access is improving, but there is still some way to go.

Some spectacularly clownish defending is the subject of this week’s #ICYMI – watch as Lyon’s Fernando Marçal thunders a clearance into his own net just as his side was on the verge of almost clearing a PSG attack.