Modern football is a disease.

Long gone have the days where you could sing on terraces, even when you could stand up in seated areas and support your team without any interruption from stewards. Nowadays you’re lucky if you can sneeze and not be threatened to be thrown out the ground. Enough is enough though, if we stand as one in the stands, support our beloved team as one, as FWFIN have said previously they won’t chuck us all out, because then there would be no noise coming from the terraces, it’d just be a soulless ground, the only sound coming from the players communicating on the pitch.

The thing is though, if you go back thirty years to 1982, do you think that if you told the people that watched football in those days that all stadiums would be seated and the rules would’ve got a million times stricter, they would have believed you? Of course they wouldn’t; now do you think it’s that unrealistic that modern football grounds will try and get rid of your average working class fan with ever increasing ticket prices? What will the next thirty years hold, because just that is maybe what will happen and we will do everything in our power to make sure that is not true at all. Supporters deserve the right to be able to watch their team on a Saturday and not have to worry about doing something wrong; it should be a relaxed atmosphere, not one where you’re always looking over your shoulder to make sure you’re not in anyone’s bad books.  

Well, we say that supporters should be able to watch their team on a Saturday, however, the chances of it actually being played on a Saturday is becoming too much of a rarity these days. This is another thing that will be looked into, because it’s not fair to make supporters travel hundreds of miles for a Sunday afternoon kick off, just for the sake of television. Sky Sports and ESPN should take a long look in the mirror with some the decisions that have made over recent years, with no thought whatsoever for the supporter. Take last night for example, Carlisle played away at Brentford, which is a ten hour round trip; ten hours is gruelling enough on a Saturday, but on a Monday? It’s inhumane, it’s actually borderline farcical.

Sky Sports has to be stopped, ESPN has to be stopped, and the gulf in football has to be stopped, to mention just a few. People say that it can’t be stopped, but believe us, it can. Whether it takes years, decades or more, FWFIN will not rest until the aforementioned has been sorted once and for all! Always remember that:

Football without fans is nothing.