Fan Mail - The FSF Newsletter (August 20th 2010)
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Your chance to quiz PFA boss in ManchesterGordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers’ Association will be speaking at a Q&A organised by the FSF at the City of Manchester Stadium on Thursday September 9th (7pm KO). This is your chance to question one of the most influential men in domestic football. Do players earn too much? Is the bond between player and fan broken? What does the PFA do and what responsibilities does it have? Is the PFA doing enough to challenge discrimination in all its forms? Get along to this free event, which also doubles as an FSF North West and North Wales Divisional meeting, and find out. |
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Arsenal Supporters’ Trust launch ownership planA big well done to Arsenal Supporters’ Trust who this week launched Arsenal Fanshare, the first time that any Premier League club has entered into a formal partnership with its fans to actively promote supporter ownership. Given the controversy that often surrounds issues of club ownership, be it leveraged buy-outs at Liverpool or Manchester United, or lack of transparency at Leeds or Portsmouth, it’s easy to forget that club ownership can have positive connotations too. |
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ADVERT: Would you spit to save a life?Spitting into a tube is the first step in saving a life – it’s how Anthony Nolan can identify your tissue type and use that to find matches for patients who need life-saving stem cell transplants. Many leukaemia patients need a transplant to save their life. There are millions of tissue types and for every person who finds a match another doesn’t. We urgently need more football fanatics like you to be prepared to donate. Donating stem cells isn’t painful and is much easier than many people think. It can be like donating blood. |
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Euro ticket rip-offs challenged by FSEFootball Supporters Europe this week launched their new Whistleblower Campaign which calls on all European clubs and FAs to stop ripping off away fans. Supporters following their side in Europe might be familiar with paying over the odds for tickets and there have been reports this season of clubs charging away fans up to 10 times as much as home supporters. So if your club’s fans are being overcharged do something about it - collect the evidence and email FSE who will take it to UEFA and put an end to this dodgy practice. |
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...and finally.Here at the FSF we love a proper own goal and all the classic ingredients are in this one. Defender awkwardly facing his own goal? Check. Tries to clear with his wrong foot? Check. Ball rockets into top corner past helpless keeper? Check. Take a bow Jan Lecjaks of RSC Anderlecht. |
