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Alongside Kick It Out, English football’s equality and inclusion organisation, the FSA is calling on England fans to stop the boos, support the team and applaud players taking the knee.

For almost 25 years now, the Free Lions team have been following England home and away providing England fans with on-the-ground support and information through our Fans’ Embassy service. They’re no strangers to the controversies surrounding the Three Lions’ support and today have issued the following comment on the pre-match booing of the England players before their fixture against Romania…

England are back on the road this weekend as the Three Lions head to Kosovo to finish off their European Championship qualifying campaign.

England are off to Sofia as the Three Lions head to Bulgaria for their latest European Championship qualifying match and as always we’ve produced a handy guide for the trip.

England are back on the road this month as the Three Lions head to the Czech Republic following on from their convincing victories against Kosovo and Bulgaria on home soil.

Following England’s defeat to Holland in Portugal last night the Three Lions will be heading back to Guimarães on Sunday to take on Switzerland in the UEFA Nations League.

Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters’ Association, said:

England are off to Portugal this week as they prepare for the first-ever finals of the new UEFA Nations League – and the Free Lions team will be on hand to help fans once more.

Following the release of tickets for this summer’s Women’s World Cup and the problems reported by fans, Deborah Dilworth from the England women’s fanzine Free Lionesses said:

England begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign this week and will be heading off to the Adriatic Sea on Monday to take on Montenegro.

Tonight the Fans for Diversity campaign and Free Lions are launching an exhibition of work by David Shaw celebrating the England fans’ contribution to the World Cup in Russia. Here England fan and tournament veteran Billy Grant tells us about a special summer…

Due to play their fixture against Croatia behind closed doors tonight, England return to action in full public view on Monday against Spain in the UEFA Nations League. 

Following England’s semi-final defeat to Croatia, they’ll be heading off to Saint Petersburg to play Belgium in the 2018 World Cup third place play-off.

England are through to a World Cup semi-final for the first time since 1990 as they take on Croatia in Moscow on Wednesday 11th July.

England are on their way to Samara – you can find our guide to the sixth largest city in Russia in Free Lions 161 here and in our England Fans’ Guide to Russia. Here Goal.com journalist Nizaar Kinsella, who’s been based their for the duration of the tournament, tells us about its charms…

England are through to the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup and heading off to Samara to play Sweden on Saturday 7th July.

England’s 2018 World Cup campaign continues on Tuesday 3rd July as they take on Colombia in the last-16 in Moscow on Tuesday, and the Free Lions team will be there once more.

It seems that one article in the last edition of Free Lions has caused a bit of a stir.

England’s final group game at the 2018 World Cup takes place in Kaliningrad this Thursday 28th June as they take on Belgium, with a place in the last-16 already secured.

The prospect of following England into the knock-out stages of the tournament was probably already enticing enough even before our progress was confirmed by an emphatic and stylish 6-1 victory.