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Video replays and refs - what do fans think?
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From goal-line cameras to vanishing spray, the increasing use of technology in the game seems to be ramping up season-by-season and it’s important that supporters are kept informed.
That’s why at next week’s Supporters Summit we’ll be taking a closer look at...
Mad experiments & ignoring fans: A history of football law-makers
Arsenal blogger Vic Crescit tells us about the games law-makers, IFAB, how they came into being and what "interesting"changes they've tested down the years...
You can always tell a football anorak. They’re the ones who know a) that the game of football doesn’t have playing rules it has playing laws and b) the playing laws are decided not by the game’s world governing body FIFA but by something cal...
Sixth equals third? Re-thinking the play-off format
The Championship play-off final is one of the highlights of the footballing calendar in England, but is it fair to the team that finishes third in the league? Birmingham City fan Steve Walcott shares proposals to make the play-offs more equitable...
With just one game remaining of the regular 2014-15 Football League season it’s inevitable that fans’ attention is starting to turn towards the play-o...
Passion and effort: Glossop North End head to Wembley
Ken Gaunt, former football reporter for the Press Association, tells us about Glossop North End's rich history and their latest quest to win the FA Vase at Wembley...
So AFC Bournemouth are the smallest town in England to host a top flight team? Try telling that to another title-winning side Glossop North End. The Hillman graced the First Division in the 1899-90 season when they faced the likes...
Shaking with expectation: North Shields seek Wembley date
Ken Gaunt, a former football reporter for the Press Association, tells us about North Shields' quest to reach the FA Vase final at Wembley...
They are the talk of the Tyne and on the brink of booking a trip to Wembley for the first time in 46 long years.
North Shields is shaking with expectation at the prospect of the Robins sealing their place on Saturday at the national stadium.
The 1969 Amate...
Punishment for denying goal-scoring opportunities may change
Arsenal supporter and blogger Vic Crescit reports on the annual general meeting of football’s playing law-makers, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), hosted by the Irish Football Association near Belfast recently...
Yes to changing the so-called “triple punishment” where a foul prevents a clear goal scoring opportunity was the biggest decision to come out of the IFAB AGM held at a...
Football League set to approve 3G pitches
Artificial pitches could “return” to English football as early as 2015/16 after clubs from Leagues One and Two voted in favour of their reintroduction, says industry magazine FC Business.
29 out of 48 clubs backed a rule change which would allow FIFA 2-star-rated 3G surfaces for games in League One, League Two, the League Cup, and Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.
So-called plastic pitches were banned in...
No appeal in Blatter’s latest idea
TV replays could be used to challenge a ref's decision as soon as next year’s FIFA Under-20 World Cup, says Sepp Blatter. But is it the right move for football? Reading fan and FSF Secretary Jon Keen thinks not…
Although not completely unexpected, Blatter’s idea is terrible news, and I think rates in the top three of ludicrous ideas coming from FIFA’s President, slightly behind his 2004 idea of en...