Get Involved With The Football Supporters Ferderation Weekend Of Action Thursday, 3rd Sep 2015 22:37 Football fans will make their anger at ticket prices known in a “weekend of action” protests taking place on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October — and Football Supporters Federation want you to get involved. Supporters’ groups from every club in the top-flight are set to be involved, with many more from the Football League. The protests will once again shine the media spotlight on the issue of high ticket prices. Since the early 90s media money has poured into football and the financial benefits have been felt by players, owners, executives and agents — yet fans are continually expected to pay more. The increase in the latest domestic TV deal alone equates to more than £40 for every single fan, at every single top-flight game. Clubs have more than enough money to reduce prices throughout the leagues and it’s about time fans felt the benefit via reduced ticket prices. Want to get involved? Here’s how: Email tickets@fsf.org.uk with your name and club. At some clubs we already have volunteers and we’ll put you in touch with them, at other clubs you might be the person to lead the charge. Make contact with the fans of your opponent club (we can help you with that if needed). Contact your local newspaper to send a photographer and reporter as they will be interested in rival fan groups teaming up on this subject. Let us know if you need help with contacts, we might be able to help. We’d also be interested to see any coverage you receive post-protest — send links to tickets@fsf.org.uk or @The_FSF. Don’t forget to take your own images and share via social media using #TwentysPlenty We would encourage fans to try and organise displays in their stadiums. Each fan base has a different relation with their club to the next, so there’s no “one-size-fits-all” model, but we’d recommend these steps as a general guide: Contact your club’s Supporters Liaison Officer (SLO) to let them know you would like to display a banner in the ground. If you’re an away fan let your SLO and the host SLO know — contacts for all here. We will contact all SLOs to let them know about the weekend of action, so they should have some idea of what’s going on, but if not, share this link with them. If your request is refused let us know and we'll do our best to help. Even if we aren’t able to persuade the clubs to allow banners in, we can publicise which ones are censoring fans’ views on ticket prices. We suggest that banners are displayed before kick-off, half time and, if possible, at full time. We would encourage all fans to include the slogan “Twenty’s Plenty” or “Twenty’s Plenty for Away Tickets” on banners plus any additional club-specific slogans/info you’d like to feature. Get involved! - See more at: http://www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Get-involved-Twentys-Plenty-Weekend-of-Action-Sa Photo: Action Images Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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