FFC Survey: The Standing Debate

For the last 6 years we've been tracking whether fans feel they should be given the freedom to stand or sit inside football grounds.

The results have consistently shown that the majority of supporters would like to have the option to stand and as a follow up, we've been asking fans - In an ideal world, which sections of your ground, if any at all, would you like to see as standing areas?

The survey will be closing shortly and the results will be shared with organisations like the Football Supporters Federation (FSF).

It just takes a minute to complete, clubs that have currently retained standing areas are included and there's also an option for fans who don't wish to see a return to standing to register their opinion as well.

Simply follow this link if you haven't already taken part.

Many thanks for your support

The FFC Team

FFC Survey: Destination Vienna

With England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales failing to qualify for the European Championships this year - which national team will you support....?

This research is being conducted for Nuts TV who are presenting a new football show - Destination Vienna - a definitive guide to all of the teams participating in the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland this summer, airing now, during the Nuts TV football slot - 9:00 - 11:00pm nightly.

Click here to take part

Many thanks for your support

The FFC Team

FFC Results: Football Rivalries Report

Football Rivalries, they underpin the game. Even when we're not playing each other, many of us take great pleasure in seeing our rivals take a tumble. Bragging rights secured - or lost - on derby day can make or break a season. But where does rivalry come from and which are the biggest rivalries in English football?

We hooked up with the stats folk at The New Football Pools to take a look at football rivalries, is it simply because clubs are near-neighbours, is it jealousy at another club's success? Are there social or economic reasons that are simply mirrored by the football clubs?

6,000 FFC members across all 92 League clubs took part in the study to identify who they thought were their biggest footballing rivals.

Having found out who those rivals were, we then asked why they were their biggest adversaries, to understand whether it was because:

• they are neighbours
• they have always been rivals, for whatever reason
• they're jealous, because their rivals have been more successful
• they meet regularly in the league
• or because the rivalry goes much deeper than football

Armed with those answers, statisticians at The New Football Pools then put together a league table of the top rivalries using a complex formula based on:

• the survey responses of both sets of fans
• the respective league and cup records of the two clubs
• the regularity of league and cup meetings between the rivals
• the two clubs' records when playing each other
• the impact on attendances when they meet
• transfers between the clubs, and fans' reactions to those transfers
• off-the-field factors, such as media coverage of the rivalry
  

Some of the results may surprise you, but we hope you enjoy debating it.

Click here to download the report.

FFC Results: New Football Pools Fanzine Awards Shortlist

The votes are in and the shortlist is up for the New Football Pools Fanzine Awards, check them out here

FFC Rewards: When Saturday Comes 255 May 2008

The latest issue of When Saturday Comes, The Half Decent Football Magazine is available for just 295 points in the FFC Rewards Redemptions...

Issue Details;

Editorial The nightmare plan to rename Mansfield after Dream Team’s Harchester United

Newswatch & Webwatch Player dissent and the fretting press; Ebbsfleet, the internet club, reach Wembley

Sidelines Grand Slam Sunday again; Gillingham’s ground plans; FA Cup ticket cock-ups; another points deduction for Rotherham

Shot! A day in the life of the Tranmere physio

Playing the Game Pitfalls of a new scheme to boost the grassroots game; plus England flop at five-a-side

FIFA Football’s governing body are bottom of an international league table and they’re in trouble over alleged corruption

Match of the Month Promotion contenders West Brom visit fading Charlton who can only hope for the play-offs at best

Shot! Archive West Ham players at the end of the pier in 1925

Ken Monkou The Dutch defender looks back on a decade in English football

Media Matters The changing face of football magazines for kids; the BBC loses live football

Gretna & East Stirling Struggling clubs at either end of the Scotish league, plus the rapid rise and fall of Colne Dynamoes

As Good As It Got The Saarland, whose national team nearly upset the future World Cup winners

Reviews Two takes on Best; the Corinthian spirit; football murder in Scotland; ball games in British history

Season In Brief The Premier League 1997-98, where Arsène Wenger made an immediate impact