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We don't like Mondays: lessons from Germany's Monday protests
You may have seen England midfielder Jadon Sancho being pelted with tennis balls recently in the Bundesliga – the Dortmund man in the wrong place at the wrong time as the Nuremberg fans delivered their protest against Monday night football.
“Gegen Montagsspiele” has been the simple message plastered across banners at every ground in the Bundesliga this season as the league and broadcasters attempt...
TV villans: Sky Sports disregard away fans once more
Fans are all to used to broadcasters mangling the fixture list, but not many have experienced a kick-off being moved twice within 24 hours. David Michael from Villa blog My Old Man Said tells us about Sky's hokey-cokey with their Norwich City away trip...
The switching of kick-off times for television has long been a bugbear to football supporters, especially season ticket holders and away support...
Premier League TV picks: assessing the impact on match-going fans
Some of our Premier League supporter groups do great work analysing TV kick-off issues on behalf of the FSF and their fellow fans, identifying issues with each batch of fixtures and lobbying the football authorities and broadcasters for better treatment.
It's relentless work and difficult to deliver results but it's still a relatively new area of work and they're making progress.
Yesterday, the P...
Fans respond to 2017/18 PL fixtures
A working group set up under the auspices of the Football Supporters' Federation, made up of representatives from Chelsea Supporters’ Trust, Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust and Liverpool’s Spirit of Shankly, has been meeting the broadcasters to fight for a better deal for match-going fans. This group was formed at, and reports to, the 20 fan reps who make up the Premier League Structured Dial...
Football and TV kick-off times tracker
The FSF's TV Kick-Off Times tracker collates our affiliated fan groups views on their club's away games which have been moved for TV. Using a simple traffic light system FSF affiliates can rate the impact of games moved for TV.
This isn't an exact science and, as thousands can travel to an away game, there's never going to be a perfect time which inconveniences nobody ("It clashed with my Great Au...