The FSF’s TV Kick-Off Times tracker collates our affiliated fan groups views on their club’s away games which have been moved for TV. Using a simple traffic light system FSF affiliates can rate the impact of games moved for TV.
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Clear filterThe FSF’s TV Kick-Off Times tracker collates our affiliated fan groups views on their club’s away games which have been moved for TV. Using a simple traffic light system FSF affiliates can rate the impact of games moved for TV.
FSF National Council members Ian Todd, Tim Hillyer, and FSF Caseworker Amanda Jacks visited Sky Sports HQ last month to talk football and TV fixture selection. Ian is also the FSF’s representative on the Fixtures Working Party and explains how the meeting went, below…
Last minute fixture changes are a nightmare for many fans, particularly those who follow their teams away or who have long journeys to home games. Travel and time off work all his to be rearranged, sometimes at a few days notice. Blades fan Chris Brook (left) explains how tonight’s Port Vale v Sheffield United clash was moved because Spurs crashed out of the Europa League. Really…
The Home Office has today (Thursday 13th March 2014) launched a two week consultation on the proposal to relax licensing hours for England matches in this year’s World Cup. The consultation is open until 11:59pm on 26th March.
Complaints relating to rescheduled fixtures are one of the more common that the FSF receives – fixtures are subject to change and that can cause strife.
Southampton to Sunderland is one of the longer trips in English football so you’d think the authorities would be extra careful when scheduling it, wouldn’t you? Think again. Ten days after the Capital One Cup fixture was confirmed, it was moved on police advice. In an open letter to Northumbria Police, FSF National Council member Ian Todd explains fans’ frustration…
Thousands of Bradford City and Tranmere Rovers fans have seen matchday plans disrupted after their upcoming game was moved on West Yorkshire Police’s advice to avoid clashing with an English Defence League march.
The Premier League has warned pubs they face legal action for using unauthorised broadcasters to show live games on Saturday afternoons. In this excerpt from The Blizzard Gabriele Marcotti argues that new models are required in the digital age and the 3pm blanket TV ban should be scrapped for the sake of all clubs, especially smaller ones…
Sky and BT have little interest in match-going fans, except as window dressing for their broadcast, but they could make things a whole lot easier for us. So argues Jamie Redfearn…
Ian Todd, the FSF representative on the Fixtures Working Party, sheds some light on the process by which ‘the fixure computer’ comes up with something that never fails to cause grief and annoyance for some…
Michael Sweeney is a lifelong Liverpool fan with a soft spot for Wigan Athletic, which makes them officially his second team. He’s been a match going fan for 25 years and says he’s been at the “sharp end of the FA’s incompetence” since the 1980s.
Arsenal blogger Vic Crescit has a good, old-fashioned rant about the FA’s decision to move its showpiece event to a tea-time kick-off.
Premier League managers constantly talk about the need for squad rotation and resting players, but while they typically have the resources to cope with a ‘fixture pile-up’, spare a thought for those lower down the football pyramid.
Premier League fans have long been accustomed to league games shuffling around to accommodate European glamour ties. But who would have thought that last night’s Manchester United v Real Madrid tie could have similar knock-on effects for fans in the Blue Square Bet Premier?
The European Union’s Court of Justice (ECJ) has backed Yahoo! in a court clash with Britain’s biggest football leagues. The internet search giant argued that it should not have to pay for the right to publish British fixture lists. European judges agreed and said that “a football fixture list cannot be protected by copyright when its compilation…leave no room for creative freedom”.
Liverpool’s managing director Ian Ayre has said the club should be able to sell its own overseas TV rights – a move which would end the “collective agreement” between all 20 Premier League clubs. Ayre believes the current set-up is “disadvantaging” English clubs as Spanish clubs, such as Barcelona and Real Madrid, can sell rights individually.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled against the Premier League in a crucial TV dispute. The ECJ’s decision means that the Premier League can no longer sell top-flight football’s TV packages at different rates in different countries. Instead one pan-European price is likely to be set meaning a possible reduction for subscribers in the UK.
Sir Alex Ferguson has branded TV “the devil” and said broadcasters have too much control over football’s fixture lists. Speaking to BBC North West Tonight Ferguson said clubs did not have enough say when it came to arranging games and claimed the top sides lose out.
