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UEFA meets Supporters Direct and FSE

Yesterday, Football Supporters Europe and Supporters Direct met with UEFA to further improve the dialogue between them.

Cambridge United fans bid to Buy Back the Abbey

05/03/2010
Cambridge Fans United (CFU) Press Release
For immediate Release

Cambridge United fans bid to Buy Back the Abbey

The Cambridge United Supporters’ Trust, Cambridge Fans United (CFU) has unveiled a bold plan to buy back the Abbey Stadium – for the whole community, and they’re asking for the whole town to pull together to achieve it in record breaking time!

1,000 Sign up to Keep the Cup Free for All

Over 1,000 people have now signed up to Supporters Directs Keep the Cup Free for All campaign, which aims to keep the Rugby League Challenge Cup on the list of protected free-to-air TV events.

Bournemouth & Cardiff�s Risky Strategies

Two clubs that haven’t yet resolved their differences with the taxman are AFC Bournemouth and Cardiff City, and both of them are still fighting off winding up orders. Mark Murphy has been taking a look at both clubs, and finds a bit of a high risk strategy taking place at each.

Farsley Celtic Are Back On The Brink

Hidden away in the back pages of a couple of local newspapers, another football club is dying. It’s a club that has been to the brink before and, unlike, other, bigger clubs that have faced financial problems this season, they haven’t exactly hogged the headlines over the last couple years or so. Farsley Celtic have crossed our rainbow, firstly when their chairman openly considered changing their name to “AFC Leeds” to try and grow their local support and secondly when they fell into serious financial difficulties during the summer over an unpaid a £200,000 bill to HMRC which resulted in their near expulsion from the Blue Square North. It was only at the last minute that a new consortium was believed to have stepped in after the club entered into administration.

Statement from the Crystal Palace Supporters Trust

Trust statement 02/03/10

The Trust is delighted to welcome Paul Hart as manager of Crystal Palace and wish him every success in his new role. It is particularly pleasing to welcome back Dougie Freedman, a strong supporter and member of the Trust, and John Pemberton back to Selhurst Park.

Never Say Die

In amongst all the stories at clubs that we document here; of the creaking structures at Liverpool and Manchester United caused by foolish over-borrowing; falls from grace caused by egos at Chester and Kings Lynn; or collapses at Portsmouth caused by...well, a variety of things really, it's easy to forget what so often comes out the other end after all the heartache and hard work. We've got so many good stories to tell, of clubs saved, reborn, brought back from the brink.

Nick Spencer, Telegraph journalist and Exeter City fan has chronicled the journey that the Club has been on from the dying days of the regime of Lewis and Russell (not to mention Michael Jackson, Uri Geller and the Green Cross Code Man), through to the second promotion under supporter-ownership.

Equally Exeter City through-and-through, Nic Mimmack, reviews Never Say Die...

Statement from City Fans United - The Chester City Supporters Trust

Since Chester City were expelled from the Football Conference on Friday, there have been a number of rumours circulating about the future of football in Chester, specifically a number of misunderstandings about CFU's work towards the reformation of the Club.

Statement on Behalf of the Cardiff City Supporters� Trust

The board of the Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust understands and shares the frustration that many Bluebirds fans are feeling as a result of the club’s current predicament. Our beloved football club appears to be in a precarious position with a High Court appearance scheduled for next week, various bills remaining unpaid and sources of future income seemingly already exhausted.

Beyond The Debt � Are You Going To Be A Part Of The Solution?

It was standing room only in the social club at Gigg Lane, Bury on Saturday lunchtime for the “Beyond The Debt” rally as a crowd of hundreds watched an impressive array of those in the know explain that the time for debate on the ownership of football clubs is coming to an end. We seem now to be entering a different time. A time when action is required. A time in which shrugging your shoulders and muttering that, “well, my club is alright” is no longer enough. When opening speaker and rally chair Andy Walsh from FC United of Manchester spoke, he talked of the rivalries between supporters of football clubs being an artificial construct which masked the true enemies of football supporters – the people that run the game itself.