Posted on 7th September 2011
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
The next meeting of the Football Supporters’ Federation’s North Wales and North West Division will take place on Wednesday 21st September (7pm) at Hyde FC’s Ewen Fields (SK14 2SB). Further directions are available on Hyde FC’s website.
Register your attendance with divisional secretary Ian Lyon: ian.lyon@fsf.org.uk. Non-members are welcome to attend although it is free to join the FSF and will only take a few minutes of your time: www.fsf.org.uk/join.
On the agenda:
Non-league structure – with the ever increasing costs of running a football club, regional leagues are meant to help keep costs down. However, a club such as Hyde FC, who play in the Blue Square Bet North (football’s sixth tier) travel as far south as Bishop’s Stortford (near Stansted) and Gloucester for league games. Is this right for a ‘northern’ league? Should leagues be regionalised further? Or do you think the current structure is correct?
Ticket pricing – just what is a ‘fair’ price to pay to watch a game football? Is football still the working class game for the masses? Or is this a tired cliché? Categorisation is becoming an increasingly common trend meaning it costs more to watch a ‘better’ class of opposition, even within the same league. Is this right? Are supporters of category A clubs being unfairly penalised for their team’s success?
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The next meeting of the FSF Southern Division will be held in the Trophy Room at Reading FC’s Madejski Stadium on Sunday 10th September 2017. The room will open at 11.30am, a buffet lunch will be served at noon and the meeting will start at 12.30pm.
A meeting of FSF members in the north west will take place in Saint Helens on Wednesday 11th April.
The FSF, along with our friends at Supporters Direct, have partnered with the North West Football Awards to help celebrate the region’s brightest and best in the world of football.
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.
