At first, you’ve got all kind of mixed with emotions and thoughts about the next steps. The moment after, you usually immediately are confronted with some fellow supporters telling you that protesting will never work anyway and that you will never change the situation. Still, you launched an action or a campaign either as individual football supporter or as a fans’ groups and you managed to trigger a change, “just” via loudly and clearly speaking up for your positions and with a clever strategy or action!
Numerous supporters all over Europe encounter these issues and want to take action but are sometimes lacking ideas and/or experience. This is why FSE wants to encourage supporters all across Europe to tell each other about their greatest and/or most successful campaigns/actions, so that you as fans can support each other and yourselves with experiences from across the continent, to make a change and provide you with great ideas.
Why reinventing the wheel? Whether your campaign worked for you or not – it might be a good practice model that might as well work for other supporters! But if it worked - even if the campaign was totally simple - the more simple it is, the better! So, don’t hesitate to tell about it!
We will put all these campaigns together in a European FSE Fans’ Campaigning Bulletin by fans for fans to show and promote what fans all across the continent have already achieved or done to change the situation at their club/ in their country.
Contribute to this project with your vast experience and expertise as supporters to help each other to avoid situations / actions of which you wish that someone would have told you about before and told you “Don’t do that!”
The Fans’ Campaigning Bulletin will be an ongoing project that will be updated on a regular basis. Every national or local fans’ group/fans’ organisation or individual supporters are welcome to take part that can support the core principles of FSE!
Complete the online questionnaire in your preferred language and send us pictures and additional material (to campaigning@footballsupporter seurope.org) if you want! ![]()
Or pass the links on to other fans that you think should share their experiences!
At the end of the day, the guide will cover whatever you will contribute from your experience in this field and will take into account different geographic areas and various other parameters.
For the first round, please complete the questionnaire by 31 December 2010 at the very latest! Your input could be what makes the difference in fans winning their next campaigns!
Thanks a lot!
Ed (FSE member) and Shay (FSE Committee member)
BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS BELOW, YOU’LL GET DIRECTLY TO THE QUESTIONNAIRES IN THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES: