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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...

Trust says “We’ll romp it!” 1

Trust says “We’ll romp it!”

With pre-season preparations complete – three wins (including one against SPL club Kilmarnock), a draw against Dundee United and a defeat on astroturf to Conference North side Southport, whose third goal was scored by one of the Rovers players they had borrowed for the match – the conversation while the...

Strange how a new job makes the minister change his mind 0

Strange how a new job makes the minister change his mind

The Guardian’s David Conn writes about the backbencher who campaigned for an independent regulator for football, but no longer sees the need for one now that he’s become Minister for Sport. Conn argues that the issues that so concerned Gerry Sutcliffe when he tabled his bill as a backbencher have...

Trust Board Meeting, 25th June 2007 0

Trust Board Meeting, 25th June 2007

Venue: Novar Bar, Kirkcaldy Present: Alan Russell (AR), Graeme Condie (GC), John Mainland (JM), plus Tom Phillips (TP) for half of the meeting Apologies: Blair White (BW), George Howie (GH), James Proctor (JP), Mike Melville (MM), Tam Cunningham (TC)