Arsenal, Man City, Sunderland and West Brom all used this money to benefit fans visiting their grounds.
I'd be interested to know if any of these clubs asked a working group of their fans how they would like the money spent, and if they did whether they ignored them.
Arsenal knocked £2.50 off every ticket for every away game this season and gave all travelling fans a £10 food/drink voucher for their Christmas games. Sunderland discounted tickets for their away games at Southampton, Palace and Spurs. West Brom offered free coach travel to a game, along with reciprocal discount ticket details for Newcastle and Swansea, along with a 'kids for a quid' deal at Burnley.
"Hull: Offering free travel to away games, and now have nearly 30 coaches going to Everton (19 October). The club are also offering free travel to Spurs (League and League Cup), Southampton, Arsenal and Swansea, all before the Christmas period. Hull are also considering subsidising match-ticket prices for one of the games." For the 13/14 season I assume. Be interesting to compare how all the clubs spent it for this season. QUOTE="originallambrettaman, post: 7754236, member: 1000044"]Arsenal knocked £2.50 off every ticket for every away game this season and gave all travelling fans a £10 food/drink voucher for their Christmas games. Sunderland discounted tickets for their away games at Southampton, Palace and Spurs. West Brom offered free coach travel to a game, along with reciprocal discount ticket details for Newcastle and Swansea, along with a 'kids for a quid' deal at Burnley.[/QUOTE]
There isn't a recent list, but these are the ones already announced by Sept 16th 21014... Arsenal supporters receive a £2.50 discount on every Premier League away ticket. The Gunners will also provide away supporters with a refreshments voucher worth £10 at an away fixture this Christmas. Aston Villa announce subsidised tickets to a minimum of five away games during 2014-15, including £5 off Chelsea away. AVFC will also put on five free coach trips for longer away days and midweek games (Crystal Palace, Hull City, Newcastle United, Sunderland, and Southampton). Chelsea offer £10 per person travel for every league game outside London and knock £10 off three away league fixtures after consultation with the Fans' Forum. Everton introduce the “Road Trip” initiative at four games (Burnley, Southampton, Crystal Palace, QPR). Depending on number of away games attended in 13/14 the Road Trip offers free coach travel, food, matchday programmes and journeys accompanied by former players. Palace and QPR fans receive meal deals at Goodison Park. The club's reciprocal deals against Newcastle United and Swansea City are also funded by the ASI. Hull City **** all Leicester City discount £10 off tickets for Swansea City away (25th October). The Foxes say they will implement more deals through the season. Liverpool reduce ticket prices for their own travelling fans by £2-£4. The club says further benefits to improve the away supporters' experience “are expected to be” announced during the season. The club also subsidise tickets by £10 for the trip to Old Trafford on Sunday 14th December. Manchester City knock 50% off ticket prices for Arsenal away reducing an adult ticket to £32. Newcastle United reduce away match tickets for its supporters who travel to Spurs (Sunday 26th October) and Manchester United (Boxing Day) by £10. Reciprocal deals with Everton, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke City, Swansea City and WBA introduced. Queens Park Rangers offer free coach travel and reduced match tickets for the trip to Swansea City on Tuesday 2nd December. There’ll also be free coach travel to Merseyside for the R’s match against Everton on Monday 15th December. Sunderland offer discounted tickets for trips to Southampton (Saturday 18th October), Crystal Palace (Monday 3rd November), and Spurs (Saturday 17th January). Swansea City reciprocate Leicester City’s ticket deal so travelling fans save £10 when they make the return journey. The club say they will also reward fans attending away games with incentives including discounted tickets and travel. Supporters who went to on the opening day's match get up to £15 off Manchester City away. Stoke City offer free coach travel to all away fans from the Britannia, at every single Premier League game, for the second successive season. Tottenham Hotspur will offer coach travel to all away games outside London at minimal cost and charter trains to up to four destinations out of Euston. There is also the possibility of food/programme vouchers for selected games. West Bromich Albion have informed us they will be offering free coach travel to one game this season (TBC), have organised reciprocal deals with Newcastle and Swansea, and ran 'Kids for a Quid' at the Burnley match. West Ham United commit to £10 off away fixtures (TBC) through the season. The club are also trying to set up a £20 reciprocal deal with a visiting team (TBC) and will announce six "Kids for a quid" fixtures for visiting fans. - http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/away-supporters-initiative-201415#sthash.Xn1HTZwt.dpuf
The fund isn't a joke at all. Our owners are a joke; pettily refusing to spend the fan fund on the fans and trying to hide it.
Didn't Ehab say recently that supporters are irrelevant? so no surprises at the way we are treated. We are going to Palarse anyway but only because our sons live in London and so we can get a room and parking for free
Man Utd, Southampton and Burnley are also missing from that list. It also doesn't say which teams spent the money on visiting fans like we have. There needs to be a serious audit to show where exactly this money has been spent.
What on earth made anyone think they would spend this money on you irrelevant lot? If you'd argued with the Council on behalf of AA maybe, but sadly none of you started any campaigns at all encouraging the council to give him the stadium for free It's your own fault
My guess is that the money goes into a central pot at the club rather than a distinct account of its own. That being the case, they can look at expenses, and claim they would have charged more for some events, but subsidised it, therefore the money was used for those things.
Just read on another board that we had reciprocal ticket reductions for our games with Newcastle, Southampton & Stoke Can anyone confirm or deny this as I can't remember if we did
