Ken Major

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@LegacySiu Michael Owen

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@CharxRafc So do you @CharxRafc But then, EVERYBODY matters! Every individual will matter to someone, it's just a case that sometimes those individuals forget that. 🫂

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@soberfootball @BristolCity Enjoy your day mate, I'm off to Notts. County with my son to watch @Official_BRFC for the last time this season!

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

BREAKING NEWS! 💥The Women’s Sports Union, founded by @TracyEdwardsMBE and @sharrond62, is taking legal action against 10 sports governing bodies that have continued to deny women and girls their rights to fair and safe sport.

Sports governing bodies may be forced to comply with the Equality Act 2010 and protect the female category. EVERY sport that allows males to self-identify into the female category is flouting the law.

We are particularly pleased to see that @parkrunUK is on the list for legal action. We started our parkrun campaign in 2023. Since then, the organisation has refused to restore the sex categories to its race lists. Only last week the parkrun CEO told us ‘nothing had changed’ since the Supreme Court ruling last year and that they were ‘waiting for guidance’… maybe this legal action will concentrate minds.

Also on the list for legal letters are:

✅ FA Wales
✅ The Irish Football Association
✅ British Powerlifting
✅ Swim England
✅ British Gymnastics
✅ Royal Yachting Association
✅ British Baseball Federation
✅ BaseballSoftball UK
✅ Rounders England

Our Sports Listings have tracked policies since 2023. When we first started only SIX sports funded by @Sport_England excluded males from the female category from grassroots through to elite. Today, 32 sports are listed as fair and safe. We look forward to the day when fairness and safety is restored to every sport and fitness activity from recreational through to elite and at all ages.

Those sports that aren’t on the list for legal action but continue to flout the law should get their house in order… it’s only a matter of time!

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

Playing U18's but not sure what you're doing next season? Don't want to or feel ready to play adult football? Well, there's a new U21 league starting which will allow you to continue playing! Please get in touch if interested.

Fully backed by Gloucestershire FA

@GlosFA

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.

'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.

If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.

Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.

Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

A year ago, I was moved to tears when govt agreed to consult on Council Tax debt collection. I’m reposting that video as today IT'S DONE. On the back of @mmhpi campaigning the govt said this morning it WILL change the rules

- Currently miss a monthly payment & within 3 weeks, you can be told "pay the whole year". From Apr 27, Councils must wait 63 days to do that & signpost people to help meantime
- The max added admin cost is also being capped at £100

Here’s my official quote on it….

“Council Tax debt collection is so aggressive it’d make banks blush. It’s the most vicious and damaging form of legal debt collection out there - causing counterproductive misery for millions. We’ve spent the last 18 months campaigning hard to change this hideous system, and having seen so much pain caused by it, I’m genuinely moved by this huge first step towards making things better.”

“Currently, in England, if you miss a monthly payment, many councils, within usually 3 weeks, demand payment for the entire year. How people who can’t find a month’s money are expected to find a year’s I don’t know. Yet if they can’t pay, within just three more weeks, they are often taken to court, have ‘admin costs’ added, and soon see bailiffs sent in. No commercial firm would be allowed to do anything close - constituents are treated worse than customers.”

The new rule from next April means councils must wait two months, not 3 weeks, to ask for a year’s money, and the ‘admin costs’ will be capped at £100. In a perfect world, it would be even longer and the lower cap would apply, but this is still a hugely welcome change to a 33-year-old process. For councils too, it is worth remembering that this grotesque system is often catastrophic for people’s finances and wellbeing, leaving many needing more help and support, and ultimately the same council having to pick up the pieces.”
last May. Today ITS DONE! Govt has announced

[Bristol Rovers @Official_BRFC]

Gasheads are asked to be in their seats early at The Mem ahead of tomorrow's fixture against Crawley Town.

We invite you to join us at 12.15pm to be part of a special announcement by the Club 💙

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@Awaydays23 @ClassicoDeCosta I was there, drove up from Dawlish with the FIL as we were on holiday! Great day out despite the result. And a quiz question as, along with Chelsea that season, we are the only two clubs to play in 2 finals at 2 different stadiums in the same season!

IGIIGGIGIISYIMD🟦⬜️

[Her Game Too @HerGameToo]

💛 This International Women’s Day, we’re asking one simple thing:

Look deeper than the surface.

#HerGameToo

[BRFC Her Game Too @HGT_BRFC]

TODAY’S THE DAY!! 💙💙💙

Check out what we have going on at our @HerGameToo dedicated fixture at @Official_BRFC today ⬇️⬇️

And if you see us, please come and say hello! 👋

[BRFC Her Game Too @HGT_BRFC]

📣 Calling all Gasheads!

THIS Saturday is our @Official_BRFC dedicated fixture

• Face painter
• HGT stall
• Player warm up T-shirts
• Gift bags

We’re also delighted to have donated match tickets to grassroots girls teams in Bristol 💙

P.S keep an eye out at HT for us 👋

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@PatDela03682363 @HallenFC @swsportsnews No worries Pat. Always great to see the local teams doing well, especially on the national stage. Here's hoping you can go one step further than Bitton did in 2020 and reach Wembley! 🤞

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@_theawayends 2,300 away fans at Swindon yet STFC doesn't even have toilet facilities in the away end. Instead, they provided just 8 portaloos for the away fans to use. Absolute joke that a club with a ground this size cant provide basic facilities for the fans. 😡😡

[Her Game Too @HerGameToo]

💻💜 Her Game Too Webinar!

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting our first-EVER Webinar as part of our International Women's Day celebrations. 🌟

Join us on Tuesday 10th March from 7-8:30pm to learn all about our campaign, our work to make sport more inclusive and hear from some very special guests!

🎟️ To register your place for this FREE event, sign up via our website at: https://t.co/ResrmhGwX8

Whilst tickets are free, you are able to support Her Game Too by leaving a donation, helping fund our operations and invest back into Women and Girls' sport.

We hope to see you there! 🙌

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@Eliot_Richards You beat it once Eliot, you can beat it again! All the best. #UTG 🟦⬜️🟦⬜️

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

@LongwellGreenFC @DevizesTownFC @_WesternLeague_ @swsportsnews Wow indeed, 4-1 against a team unbeaten all season! Well done Longwell Green. 👏👏👏👏👏

[Ken Major @majorbrfc]

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