Monthly Archive: August 2007

Show Racism The Red Card 0

Show Racism The Red Card

As you may have seen on the club’s website, the Show Racism The Red Card fortnight of action is coming up soon. This is something that was discussed earlier this week in the Trust’s board meeting, and we’re very keen to support this initiative again. In a couple of previous...

Medium Term Planning Session, 11th August 2007 0

Medium Term Planning Session, 11th August 2007

Venue: The Boat House, Aberdour Present: Alan Russell (AR), Graeme Condie (GC), George Howie (GW), John Mainland (JM), James Proctor (JP), Tam Cunningham (TC) and Tom Phillips (TP) Apologies: Blair White (BW) and Mike Melville (MM) After taking “a year off” there was a lot of interest in re-energising the...

A league with a social conscience 0

A league with a social conscience

Really interesting article from ESPN Soccernet: A league with a social conscience Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger Every once in a while, I glance with a bit of envy at columns sent in by Phil Ball, Roberto Gotta or Jon Carter and Norman Hubbard. They are often about big clubs, bigger names and...

Football In The Community 0

Football In The Community

The BBC have an article today about the community initiatives across England at each of the Premier League clubs. There’s a link to the community page of each club’s website, and they make interesting reading – and there’s probably a few ideas there that we could borrow for ourselves! At...

Supporter ownership taken to the extreme… 0

Supporter ownership taken to the extreme…

I’m not sure if the idea of “every major decision, on and off the pitch, being put to a members’ vote” is going to work in practice, but MyFootballClub will certainly raise the profile of supporter ownership if it is successful. My big worry (other than the possibility that this...

Scots to use video to beat cheats 0

Scots to use video to beat cheats

How’s this for the first major policy announcement of the SFA’s new Chief Executive’s reign? Gordon Smith’s indignation at gamesmanship as a pundit have been followed up with action now that he’s in the top job, if he continues in this vein the game in Scotland can only change for...