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England fans' forum
Nationwide Building Society, the England team sponsor is running another England fans' forum, enabling selected supporters to have the opportunity to meet with and chat to an England player. The event promises to be a relatively intimate affair, with the chance to ask a member of Fabio Capello’s first team squad a question or two, and get an autograph or two. As you may remember, Nationwide ran a...
Registration opens for the 2008 Football Fans' Parliament
Emirates Stadium, Islington, London, N5 1BU
Saturday 5th July 2008 – 10.00am to 5.30pm – FREE ENTRY
Fans from all over England & Wales will be converging on north London in July for the annual FSF Football Fans’ Parliament.
Registration and attendance is absolutely FREE (even if you’re not a member or affiliate, but you’ll only get to vote if you are).
There’ll be debates and seminar sessions on ...
Special Constitutional Conference
A Special Constitutional Conference to discuss suggested amendments to the FSF Constitution is due to be held in Wolverhampton on Sunday 18th May at 2.30pm.
All individual and affiliate members are welcome to attend and to vote on suggested changes.
Further information will be sent in the post with the next issue of tfs (or you can view a .pdf now), with relevant documents available to download h...
Three lions off to Trinidad
The FA have today announced not one but two summer friendlies starting with a home game against the USA at Wembley on 28th May. A second game away in Trinidad will follow four days later on the 1st June.
Asalways the FSF have produced a fans' guide for those of you wanting to travel to Trinidad & Tobago.
Click here to view the Trinidad and Tobago guide
Malcolm Clarke sums up the NO TO GAM£ 39 Campaign
“It
is just 5 weeks since the Premier League announced its plans for clubs
to play a 39th game abroad. The response of supporters at all levels
has been loud and clear – that this proposal is wrong and should not be
allowed to go ahead, a view which has been widely supported in the
football media.
A
delegation of fans chosen at regional campaign meetings met the Premier
League to present our v...
Uefa boss backs Cardiff's European dream
Uefa boss Michel Platini has pledged to fight Cardiff City’s corner
should the Bluebirds win the FA Cup but be refused entry to the Uefa
Cup. The Football Association is
currently maintaining Cardiff will not be one of England's Uefa Cup
representatives even if they win the competition, as the club comes
under the jurisdiction of the FA of Wales.
Under current FA regulations, Cardiff is consider...
The O's return to the Somme
More than 180 Leyton Orient Supporters' will travel to northern France to visit the First World war battlefields of the Somme, over the weekend of July 12 and 13.
And, accompanied by members of the Royal British Legion, they’ll be visiting the resting places of three former Clapton Orient footballers who made the ultimate sacrifice on the Somme back in 1916.
During World War One profe...
Rising costs of following football could price fans out
FSF Chairman Malcolm Clarke has warned fans are being priced out of football, after a survey revealed the average supporter spends more than £1,000 a year following their team.
Virgin Money polled 2,000 football supporters across the country, and found fans, across all four divisions, spent around £1,080 on tickets, merchandise, programmes, food, alcohol and travel during 2007. And an incredible ...
Champions League and Uefa Cup Final tickets now on sale
Since
so many English clubs are still left in European competitions we
thought we would inform you that tickets for both European finals have
now gone on sale through a ballot system.
Both
Champions League final and Uefa Cup tickets have gone on sale
exclusively through uefa.com. The Champions League final is to be held
in Moscow at The Luzhniki Stadium on Wednesday 21 May. The Uefa Cup...
Reading fans join the protest
Reading fans were the first to demonstrate their support for the NO TO GAM£ 39 campaign, when they unveiled a huge banner at Sunday’s home game with Aston Villa. With the Sky cameras rolling and Reading Chairman John Madejski – a backer of the Premier League’s proposals – out on the pitch for a pre-match presentation, the FSF’s NO TO GAM£ 39 banner was paraded around the ground. And, amid warm ap...