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At their home game against Manchester City yesterday, a group of Tottenham Hotspur supporters organised an extremely successful “Show the FLA the Yellow Card” protest in an area of the ground where standing and vocal support go hand in hand. The protest emphasised the right of the supporter to choose whether to sit or stand in pre-designated standing areas areas. THFC respected the protesters’ freedom of speech and enabled them to distribute and hold up the yellow cards. The Manchester City supporters’ group, Atmosphere Action Group, lent its support to the Spurs protesters.
The action consisted of supporters raising yellow cards just prior to kick off and it was very well observed. Regrettably, demand for yellow cards in the South Stand outstripped supply – many other people clearly wanted to show their support for the campaign. The protest organiser, Lynn Hancock, was interviewed for BBC Radio London, which was aired on the Danny Kelly programme on the afternoon of Sunday 20th March.
We would now like to arrange similar peaceful protests at clubs of all divisions across the UK but to do this we need YOUR help, both physical and financial! The season is fast drawing to a close so we need to act quickly to take full advantage of the growing interest in Stand Up Sit Down.
If you would like to be involved in an unprecedented action, where club loyalties are put to one side and supporters are, for once, united in their common aims, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.
· This is NOT a protest against your club. It is a protest against the Football Licensing Authority the people responsible for ensuring local authorities and clubs do all they can to ensure supporters sit, regardless of their personal preference.
· We will provide you with a template of a yellow card. You will have to arrange to get this printed locally at your own expense. If supporters of neighbouring clubs are willing to arrange a protest then perhaps the cost could be shared between the two groups. Again, we will put supporters in touch with each other.
· We suggest the distribution of cards is concentrated in the area of your ground where supporters tend to persistently stand – and ordinarily where your most vocal supporters are!
· You will have to get enough people to distribute the cards to supporters. We will put like minded supporters of the same club in touch with each other and if we can arrange a protest so both home and away support can simultaneously hold up their yellow cards, then so much the better.
· Once we have your guaranteed support, we will arrange press releases to national newspapers and provide you with a template to contact local newspapers.
· We will provide you with a letter for you to send to your club to explain what you are doing and why.
· Ideally, this would happen on the same day. Once we have your responses, we can arrange a date whereby the fixtures are simultaneous but not a problem is this is not practical.
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In the meantime, we will carry on our work behind the scenes lobbying those with the influence to force change, but just think how great our much greater OUR influence could be, if we truly united over this issue so important to so many of us.
Please contact [email protected]
[email protected]
At their home game against Manchester City yesterday, a group of Tottenham Hotspur supporters organised an extremely successful “Show the FLA the Yellow Card” protest in an area of the ground where standing and vocal support go hand in hand. The protest emphasised the right of the supporter to choose whether to sit or stand in pre-designated standing areas areas. THFC respected the protesters’ freedom of speech and enabled them to distribute and hold up the yellow cards. The Manchester City supporters’ group, Atmosphere Action Group, lent its support to the Spurs protesters.
The action consisted of supporters raising yellow cards just prior to kick off and it was very well observed. Regrettably, demand for yellow cards in the South Stand outstripped supply – many other people clearly wanted to show their support for the campaign. The protest organiser, Lynn Hancock, was interviewed for BBC Radio London, which was aired on the Danny Kelly programme on the afternoon of Sunday 20th March.
We would now like to arrange similar peaceful protests at clubs of all divisions across the UK but to do this we need YOUR help, both physical and financial! The season is fast drawing to a close so we need to act quickly to take full advantage of the growing interest in Stand Up Sit Down.
If you would like to be involved in an unprecedented action, where club loyalties are put to one side and supporters are, for once, united in their common aims, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.
· This is NOT a protest against your club. It is a protest against the Football Licensing Authority the people responsible for ensuring local authorities and clubs do all they can to ensure supporters sit, regardless of their personal preference.
· We will provide you with a template of a yellow card. You will have to arrange to get this printed locally at your own expense. If supporters of neighbouring clubs are willing to arrange a protest then perhaps the cost could be shared between the two groups. Again, we will put supporters in touch with each other.
· We suggest the distribution of cards is concentrated in the area of your ground where supporters tend to persistently stand – and ordinarily where your most vocal supporters are!
· You will have to get enough people to distribute the cards to supporters. We will put like minded supporters of the same club in touch with each other and if we can arrange a protest so both home and away support can simultaneously hold up their yellow cards, then so much the better.
· Once we have your guaranteed support, we will arrange press releases to national newspapers and provide you with a template to contact local newspapers.
· We will provide you with a letter for you to send to your club to explain what you are doing and why.
· Ideally, this would happen on the same day. Once we have your responses, we can arrange a date whereby the fixtures are simultaneous but not a problem is this is not practical.
·
In the meantime, we will carry on our work behind the scenes lobbying those with the influence to force change, but just think how great our much greater OUR influence could be, if we truly united over this issue so important to so many of us.
Please contact [email protected]
