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certainly doesn t constitute an excuse three cheers for ian and pasoti and three boos for sir roy and gang not that this is a unique occurrence pompey fans stepped in earlier this year to pay club creditors st john s ambulance when the club went into administration 3 as did crystal palace fans 4 and see too a good news story for football club staff so loyal that they were willing to take a pay holiday where i cited five instances it s a shameful state of affairs in any business sector that this should be a worryingly often repeated incidence it s not exactly the case that there isn t money going into the game it s just pouring out in obscene amounts to an elite amongst the employees in the christmas spirit i would point out that david james and colleagues at portsmouth did put their hands in their pockets to keep some of the ground staff away from the dole queue 5 again in the christmas spirit perhaps his greedier colleagues might like to think twice as they sit by and let their agents push their salaries up to even more ridiculous levels who knows perhaps they might even donate to the fund details of how to make a donation can be found here share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans human resource management tagged fans human resource management 2 comments fsf writer of the year award for 2009 10 posted by john beech on december 16 2010 as this is after all a personal blog i hope readers will allow me this self indulgence this morning i was presented with the football supporters federation writer of the year award by their chair malcolm clarke the funny angle reflects not our drunkenness but rather the fact that malcolm is very tall i must say i m dead chuffed i m particularly pleased to receive an award from the fsf as i really appreciate the voice they have given fandom their campaigns on behalf of individuals and for all supporters deserve widespread praise video available here share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans tagged fans 5 comments manchester city s aspirations of global hegemony posted by john beech on december 14 2010 manchester city are the latest addition to a strategic alliance of football clubs across the world which atlético madrid have been building atlético s international agreements go back as far as november 2009 when they started to collaborate with shanghai shenhua of china 1 collaboration was essentially sporting with the use of player loans to gain playing experience the pace at which atlético is developing strategic alliances has stepped up a gear of late recently atlético has signed up muangthong united of thailand 29 oct 2 al ain of uae 12 nov 3 raja casablanca of morroco 30 nov 4 club américa of mexico unknown date and now manchester city 8 dec 5 targets for further expansion are reported to include brazil atlético paranaense palmeiras and internacional usa red bull new york san jose and chivas usa and japan yokohama marinos and fc tokyo not surprisingly the emphasis within this alliance is no longer so clearly sporting 6 to quote david redshaw of a different league the pioneering scheme aims to seek sponsorship and expand each club s image to all continents while sharing information on players through a wide scouting network it also comes at a good time for atlético as they need investors to help finance the construction of their new 73 000 capacity stadium la peineta which will cost around 175m the club hope to move in for the 2012 13 season and there are also plans to build a state of the art sports city in the alcorcón area of madrid he also reports that atlético have asked la liga if they can play home games at 12 00 this would allow their games to be shown live at peak times in the far and middle east amazingly atlético received a favourable response from their own supporters clubs who have agreed the change of hour is the way forward there s more a pre s e ason tournament involving all ten is already being lined up before the start of next season it s the now increasingly familiar sound of the untapped markets argument what seems to be being forgotten is the tapped market loyal local fans sport and business are troublesome bed fellows at the best of times but surely it doesn t make sense to kick one of them out of bed in any case the need to boost revenues is rather less significant to manchester city than to atlético manchester city have probably the most free spending benefactor ever to grace the director s box of an english football club but wait what s that on the horizon oh dear it s uefa s financial fair play protocol to keep on spending at the rate manchester city is becoming used to see an earlier posting manchester city following in pompey s footsteps they are going to have to do something about boosting their revenues if they want to carry on being a viv nicolson click here if she was before your time ironically a measure designed to reign in spending unearned money may well result in a situation that leaves loyal fans fuming at how to raise the money for global air fares and having to reschedule their saturdays during the main season to accommodate kick off times all for the benefit of new fans in the far east yet another example of what can only be described as the harlem globetrotterisation of english football how long before the premier league is reduced to the ten teams with the richest benefactors endlessly touring the world playing exhibition matches in front of currently untapped fans and to hell with the real fans share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans globetrotterisation tagged fans globetrotterisation 2 comments pride and prejudice posted by john beech on november 13 2010 prejudice is always a hard one can we really be so certain that someone else s position is irrational and wrong to what extent should we take account of the context in which opinions are expressed is football really the place to drag personal ideologies in to certainly the last week or so has seen more than it s share of issues vlatko markovic the head of the croatian football federation has caused a storm of protests about anti gay remarks he made in a newspaper interview 1 he is now threatened with court action 2 and has subsequently apologised 3 not that that is particularly significant it is the bedrock of prejudice that underlies the original remarks that is disturbing and court action and an apology will not result in a sudden change of perspective not the we don t have issues nearer home in a different area of prejudice there has been the anti poppy protest by some celtic fans the offending banner can be seen here if instinctively you condemn the banner and see celtic and rangers as a simple catholic republican v protestant unionist divide try looking at these two blog postings remembrance sunday an alternative view and the response let me wear my poppy with pride they come from an excellent website called the celtic underground which is run by a group of angry middle aged men so it s bound to get my vote oops betraying my own prejudices but you may have already spotted them together they make a compelling case against stereotyping fans and for the complexity of issues that are often dismissed as black or white even nearer home we have seen what i would view as prejudice manifesting itself in a football match that may yet not be scheduled afc wimbledon v mk dons now many readers will object to the name i have chosen to use for the latter team preferring the soubriquet franchise to them it is the club that should not be allowed to dare to speak its name their current anger and i have no wish to increase it is understandable some sections of the media have been presenting this pairing as some kind of derby match this i would suspect is simply because as this is the first time the clubs will have met and the pairing is a unique one there are no direct comparisons to be made in the english game yet and so people tend to fall back to assuming wrongly that the closest comparitors provide an example to be used for contextualisation one thing which some wimbledon fans seem to forget those who are offended that the two clubs have been bracketed as rivals is that rivalry is rarely two sided many coventry city fans for example would see aston villa as deadly rivals but i doubt that few of the latter s fans would reciprocate this feeling what the possible meting has undoubtedly stirred up is long held emotions hatreds even these i would personally label as prejudices i m very aware of why they are felt so strongly but there seems to me to be an irrationality in the way they are being applied by some fans and a dangerous one at that it s the invocations to neither forgive nor forget that bothers me never forget i have absolutely no problem with if you forget you have no basis for advocating never again which i would certainly advocate never forgive is on the other hand distinctly more problematic its totemic presentation begs the rather vital question of who is to be forgiven or not in this case the obvious contenders are sam hamman pete winkelman and the fa current fans of mk are a rather less obvious contender and yet it is they who bear the brunt of the abuse and hatred oh sorry banter there has even been talk about possible violence at such a game if there should be perhaps it will bring home to those who engage in banter that there is a fairly thin line between their position and that of the russians who defended the odemwingie poster as banter talking of violence is too often a self fulfilling prophecy typically if the context is overtly or covertly one of prejudice peace and reconciliation and bear in mind that i am based in coventry 3 and in coventry university 4 so i recognise that i am open to accusations of prejudice towards those two virtues between football fans is possible a great example can be found north of the border this very week 5 let s hope that should the encounter in england happen banter will take a back seat and that we do not carry on passing on our own prejudices to the next generation of fans who then feel the need to express the strength of their identity with their club through some rites of passage act of mindless violence let s see a bit more of the yours in football spirit after all you don t have to be prejudiced to be a loyal club fan or am i wrong in an act totally unrelated to this posting and the cages i may have inadvertently rattled in south west london i m off at silly o clock during the coming night for our rather delayed summer holiday i expect to be offline from late this evening for the best part of a fortnight so there will be a disruption to both moderating of comments and postings share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans identity media tagged fans identity media 4 comments political correctness in south africa posted by john beech on june 16 2010 you wait over a week for a world cup story to come up on this blog and then three come along almost at once this one the second has a very direct connection with english football finance nadeem khan a member of the south african liverpool supporters club accompanied by his wife and child put up a banner at the germany v australia game on sunday night in durban among other supporters banners full story here about half an hour into the game he was somewhat surprised to see three security officials taking it down and subsequently it was destroyed by fifa officials his crime as in the click liverpool report was identified by fifa officials that the flag contravened their rules against obscene or vulgar images being displayed at games despite no such guidelines existing in fifa s ticketing terms and conditions the only even remotely relevant prohibitions i can find in the official fan guide p 52 are on racist or xenophobic material and on promotional or commercial material well judge for yourself photo link to click liverpool site embedded here liverpool fan ziyaad hassam outside soccer city stadium in johannesburg with the banner obscene an absurd suggestion vulgar au contraire i think it has rather tasteful connotations of nineteenth century trade union banners this was plain and simple censorship for the extremely heavy handed handling of hassam click through to the full report here the same report also mentions two other incidents two irish fans were threatened with imprisonment for displaying an inoffensive flag during france s game with uruguay last friday whilst americans were also threatened with jail terms for holding up a banner claiming wayne bridge for usa during their clash with england i m afraid i find this approach to fans all too typical of the fifa way the naked commercialisation of their activities has led them to lose touch with the fans the episode has prompted me to add a censorship tag to the blog and retrospectively add it to two previous postings share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in 2010 censorship fans fifa tagged 2010 censorship fans fifa leave a comment warring at walsall posted by john beech on may 16 2010 rising up the pyramid when there are larger iconic clubs geographically close to you is always going to be difficult because the size of potential fan base is constrained in the case of walsall league 1 within ten miles they have west bromwich albion premier league next season wolves premier league aston villa premier league and birmingham city premier league that is not to suggest that walsall is not capable of having a committed set of ultra loyal fans rather it is to suggest that when ambition for the club is mentioned it needs to be tempered with some realism the club was an early mover into a modern stadium the bescot opening in 1990 it has a capacity of over 11 000 and conference facilities allowing non matchday revenue streams its form in modern times has seen it fairly stably around its current level in the pyramid the size of the stadium has not really been a constraint and of late it has not been well filled after a period of considerable turbulence the club was taken over in 1988 by a consortium led by maurice miller who appointed two directors ray clift and jeff bonser within ten years bonser was chairman a position he still holds and owner of the stadium for more on this turbulent period and the early years of this regime a particularly useful source was a series called the long road to bescot published on the walsall mad website but now 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