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Whose game is it? Football governance through the eyes of the supporters [Paper #4: Supporter ownership and the Supporter Trust model in football]
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posted on 2015-11-27, 10:21 authored by Borja Garcia-GarciaBorja Garcia-Garcia, Joanna WelfordWithin the FREE policy papers on football governance, papers #1 and #2 focused on the demand
for further regulation of football from supporters and concluded that supporters have an acute
understanding of the problems with current football governance, and are highly critical of the way
the sport is governed at the top level. Various suggestions were made to address the problems
highlighted including reform, government intervention and increased supporter involvement.
Policy papers #3 and #4 explore the issue of increased supporter involvement in football
governance further. Policy recommendations in the area strongly focus on the role of supporter
trusts and the work of Supporters Direct. However, one of the findings in our conversations with
supporters is that there is a variety of avenues through which they would like to be involved with
football. Given that variety, it is necessary to disaggregate the analysis of this complex issue. Thus,
the FREE policy paper series addresses forms of supporter engagement in two different papers.
First, policy paper #3 focussed on wider fan activism via a variety of avenues, in an attempt to
understand the perceived opportunities for and barriers to supporter engagement. Second, policy
paper #4 focuses exclusively on club ownership and supporters’ trusts.
Funding
The FREE – Football Research in an Enlarged Europe – project has received funding from the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development & demonstration under grant agreement № 290805.
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GARCIA, B. and WELFORD, J., 2015. Whose game is it? Football governance through the eyes of the supporters [Paper #4: Supporter ownership and the Supporter Trust model in football]. The FREE Project Football governance policy papers, 21pp.Publisher
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