Gents.
If I told you there's a fairly quick way of getting a substantial football industry political weight behind this thing, would you believe me?
This is how to do it.
Read this page-
http://www.fsf.org.uk/campaigns/
I started a thread last week, saying how they'd emailed me to tell me that joining as a full member had now become free. It's probably sat on about page 28 of BM by now, alone, unloved, and unreplied :(
But anyway. I joined up. For information, this is what the FSF say about themselves:
About Us
The Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) is the national supporters’ organisation for all football fans comprising over 142,000 individual fans and members of local supporters’ organisations from every club in the professional structure and many from the pyramid.
Joining the FSF is your opportunity to make a difference. The Federation has regular meetings with the football authorities and the Department of Culture Media and Sport, discussing a wide range of issues, many of them placed on the agenda by the FSF to take forward our policies or in response to concerns raised by supporters.
We have more detailed meetings on specific topics with the relevant authorities or other bodies such as the Independent Football Commission and the Police Match Commanders. We also meet Government and the all-party football group of MPs when necessary.
The Federation regularly takes up specific complaints and cases which are raised with it by individual members or affiliated organisations and we encourage the participation of all supporters in this process.
This is right up there street. There are organisational members (ie non City fans) registered on this forum. If anyone can find them (they'll be in the list somewhere) a quick PM will send them a notification email and with a bit of luck they'll be reading this thread before you can say 'corruption in professional football is flipping rubbish'. If you're reading, chaps, please can you suggest how we proceed? If you've read the thread, perhaps you can see that what we have here is not a whinge about Adebayors fair enough punishment, but is a genuine complaint against the apparent willingness of the FA (and even UEFA) to massage discplinary procedures and punishments, relating to contraventions of the rules and laws of the game, on an ad hoc basis. It's not bloody fair.
I advise BMers, and any other visiting/ lurking football fans of any creed, to sign up. It costs you nothing. You don't need to send them anything other than your email address, but I understand they send you a free mag every now and then if you give them your address. If we start pursuing this at local meets, we'll be able to help get the FSF en masse to put this issue on their agenda. The FSF, as they say, represent the length and breadth of the football community, and no one will mistake them for a bunch of partisan City fans.
Any thoughts?
