Posted on 5th February 2013
The FSF continues to campaign on behalf of away supporters and in the 2017/18 season we asked away fans to help record their experiences once more.
Posted on 5th February 2013
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
The news that Manchester City returned 900 tickets for their January visit to Arsenal was the ember that sparked the current fire but match-going fans have long known that football is unaffordable for many. Twenty’s Plenty aims to do something about that.
In the past weeks, months and years there have been loads of different campaigns, petitions and surveys which highlighted this. Nine out of 10 fans agree that ticket prices are too high and thousands of you are prepared to do something about it. The FSF’s role is to try and harness that energy and our events in Manchester and London (January 2013) were a starting point.
Individual fans, fanzines, websites and supporters’ groups from dozens of different clubs came together to have their say. It’s the first time that many of these groups from rival clubs have joined forces and agreed on, well, anything!
That in itself is significant but it’s only the start.
The FSF can tell the story on a national level and we’ll be speaking to the FA, Football League and Premier League about Twenty’s Plenty in the near future but we firmly believe that this campaign will be won by fans at club level.
Clubs are more inclined to listen to their fans than anyone else. If a club’s fanbase is prepared to say, “We back Twenty’s Plenty and think away fans should be rewarded for their loyalty” then we might have a chance.
The London and Manchester events heard from fans with all sorts of ideas and we’ve listed some of them below. It’s by no means a definitive list but it’s a starting point. If you think we’ve missed a trick email your thoughts to tickets@fsf.org.uk.
Possible actions:
The FSF continues to campaign on behalf of away supporters and in the 2017/18 season we asked away fans to help record their experiences once more.
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