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Registration is now open Is the notorious "modern football" a safe and secure event? Is it a threat to fan culture(s)? Is it really a welcoming place for all people? What are you willing to pay for a ticket to watch your team play in the stadium these days? Would football need billionaire investors if fans were more involved in running their clubs? Are you ready to follow your national team play a European Championship Tournament all over Europe? In times of economical crisis, football clubs need their supporters more than ever. The loyalty of fans to their clubs is what regular businesses would be longing to have and satisfy as a customer base. In football, however, measures like bubble matches, intimate body searches upon entry, kombi tickets, fan ID cards, new regulation and legislation aiming to tackle an alleged comeback of hooliganism, ever increasing ticket prices, fierce sanctions for fan banners meant to celebrate rivalries.. When your chocolate bar or change is seen firstly as missile, when media or political shit storms target fans collectively as a problem for the actions of a tiny minority, when they equal ultras with hooligans, equal pyro with violence - then resultant restrictions posed to fans sometimes reach levels suggesting that watching football automatically makes you a potentially dangerous person. Likewise, racism and violence on and off the pitch committed by a small minority but resulting in police repression for all fans, particularly at away matches, or match-fixing, corruption or economic exploitation of clubs via billionaire investors do the rest to making some fan think sometimes, others more and more often: How far can loyalty of supporters go and at what cost? What can we all do together, to tackle the problems that there are and (re)vive the stands? We want to discuss these questions at our 6th European Football Fans' Congress (EFFC) around Frietjes, Graachten and.naturally the Coffee Shops and the Amsterdam Arena, home to the fans of Ajax Amsterdam and - very often - also to the Dutch national team supporters who are both co-hosts of this year's EFFC! _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
