Posted on 8th November 2012
The FSF’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Football Supporters will be meeting in Parliament next week to hear about the safe standing campaign.
Posted on 8th November 2012
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
The Football Supporters’ Federation’s Safe Standing Campaign is back in the news thanks to a stream of clubs (see below) who have come out in support of the FSF’s plans and an MP’s Early Day Motion (EDM) in Parliament calling for safe standing trials to be allowed.
Nearly half the Football League already have standing or support the call for safe standing trials while Aston Villa and Peterborough United have told the authorities that they’d like to pilot safe standing areas. Brentford, Bristol City, Crystal Palace and Hull City have all offered their support in the past week or two.
Their names can be added to a list that also includes the entire Scottish Premier League, AFC Wimbledon and Derby County. Of course not every fan knows the ins and outs of the argument – so why does the FSF back safe standing areas?
A big part of the FSF’s Campaign is education. Not all fans (or clubs and MPs come to that) understand what safe standing’s about and a good place to start is to watch the embedded video on the FSF’s Safe Standing Campaign page.
The major misconception is that standing is unsafe. It’s not true and the Government acknowledges there is no evidence to suggest it is. Opponents often cite the Hillsborough Disaster but this was caused by appalling policing and stadium neglect (among other things). Neither the Taylor Report nor the recent Hillsborough Independent Panel blamed standing – read more at the FSF’s Safe Standing Mythbuster.
The FSF needs you to act
The message from the FSF is this – lobby your MP to sign the EDM, sign their petition, tell your mates. These types of things force the powers-that-be into change and you can do it all online in about five minutes from the comfort of your sofa from this link.
Join the FSF for free today from this link.
The Football Supporters’ Federation on Facebook.
The FSF’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Football Supporters will be meeting in Parliament next week to hear about the safe standing campaign.
If you’re reading this there’s a very good chance that you know about the Football Supporters’ Association’s campaigns which have brought about away price caps, new safe standing areas, secured 7,000 more FA Cup final tickets for fans, and supported trusts who wish to bring their club into fan ownership. These campaigns have helped hundreds of thousands of supporters.
On Monday 25th June MPs will debate the issue of standing at football as Parliament considers an e-petition “relating to allowing Premier League and Championship football clubs to introduce safe standing”.
Following on from months of work with fan reps across the EFL, the FSA is pleased to launch #TerraceTalk – a supporter-led mental health initiative.