Posted on 22nd April 2016
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Talent hooverer uppers Manchester City paid £12m for 19-year-old Patrick Roberts last summer before loaning him out to Celtic in January. Wherever he ends up, the young talent may never live this down – a shocking miss in his first Old Firm game against Rangers in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup…
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The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) was contacted last night by the Sports Ground Safety Association (SGSA), who told us that the option for football clubs to offer licensed standing at all levels of the game in England and Wales has at last been passed into official Government policy.
Registration is now open for the FSA AGM, which will be held online on 11th December at 6:30pm.
As England moves out of its second lockdown, this week sees the first steps of fans returning to stadiums in elite sport since March, along with a return of fans to non-elite sport at Steps 3 and below of the non-league pyramid who had been attending matches since earlier in the autumn.
Tottenham Hotspur and the club’s supporters’ trust have joined forces in a new partnership which will support local foodbanks – the latest example of fan work in the field.
