Posted on 23rd February 2017
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Football supporters in the north west are being invited to a meeting of fans next week.
The meeting, to be held at 7pm Wednesday 1st March, follows on from a meeting in November 2016 when fans came together to discuss the region’s “crisis clubs” such as Blackpool and Blackburn.
A full agenda will be published in due course and those wishing to attend should contact Andy Higgins from Blackpool Supporters’ Trust.
The venue for the meeting is the Leyland Hotel, Leyland Way, Leyland Preson, PR2 4JX – just off Junction 28 of the M6.
It’s not just the courts at Wimbledon that are busy at this time of year – a worrying increase in football clubs facing administration and liquidation is creating more work for the High Court in London, as winding up petitions are served against a growing number of clubs unable to pay their debts.
For the third year running the FSA will be supporting the North West Football Awards – an event celebrating the best and brightest across all levels of football in the north west.
Two derbies in the north west this week have drawn criticism from supporters, not for what’s happening on the pitch, but for fans’ voices being excluded from major decisions around derby-day operations. FSA caseworker Amanda Jacks explains more…
The new phoenix club, Bury AFC, set up following the expulsion of Bury Football Club back in August 2019, will start their life as a member of the North West Counties League Division One North on Saturday 3rd October with a game against Steeton at their new home sharing with Radcliffe FC. Richard Irving spoke to Phil Young, chair of the supporters’ trust at the community owned club, about the challenges that the club has faced since its set-up in March of this year.
