FSF aims to help genuine Supporters

At the Prenton Park Cup-tie several Hereford United supporters claimed that they were unfairly 'arrested' after one of the Hereford goals was being celebrated.

The FSF (Football Supporters Federation) is aware of these sorts of situations and is looking at ways to help such supporters.

The FSF is in the process of establishing a network of Solicitors to help represent football supporters who believe they’ve suffered unjustly at the hands of police, stewards or other club officials.

We are currently receiving an ever-increasing number of complaints from fans the length and breadth of the land, bemoaning the fact that they’ve either been ejected from a ground or arrested at a game for “offences” like looking at a steward the wrong way, daring to answer a policeman back, or attempting to enter a ground having recently drunk one pint of beer.

Whilst we can make representations to the football authorities, the police (at A.C.P.O. level) & the stewards (Football Safety Officers Association), we have no expertise among our ranks to deal with the legal side of things.

So if you are, or if you know someone, in the legal profession and feel you could either offer your own services, or encourage someone else to offer theirs, please contact the FSF’s ash.connor@fsf.org.uk or call him on (m) 07813154586 to discuss the matter further.

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