Football supporters’ trusts Articles

Labour’s announcement on Friday of more rights for football fans and the opportunity for supporters’ representatives to sit on the board of their clubs is a welcome attempt to reconnect the modern game to the supporters who are all too often taken for granted....

Progress is an often overused word, particularly where lobbying and campaigning organisations are concerned. This is also a particular truism where such an organisation operates in a sphere like football, a sport with a global reach and a fan loyalty beyond most;...

Nothing shows working people's emotional, less rational side than the passion and depth of support millions demonstrate for 'their' team. Consequently, few things are more important to a community than the survival of ‘their’ clubs, especially amongst growing...

When Downing Street briefed its intention to include a plan to give football fans more powers in the running of their clubs in Labour’s 2010 general election manifesto, the critics carped that this was another pie-in-the-sky proposal from a government that was gasping...