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In This Months's Edition November 2020 Newsletter IN THIS MONTHS’S EDITION CHANGING TIMES AT WREXHAM PAGE 19 LIVERPOOL’S CHANGING HISTORY - PAGE 10 SEE THIS MUST HAVE APP FROM VSITEPASS - PAGE 12 Tel: 01254 841771 Web: www.fsoa.org.uk Football Came Home to Plough Lane Moves, Appointments & New Members The month of November finally saw AFC Steve Copp has now completed his move from Luton Town to Wycombe Wanderers. He is Wimbledon return to their spiritual home in replaced at Luton Town by Andrew Bracken. Plough Lane. Their new stadium sits 250 yards from their original on the site of the now defunct The FSOA has also heard that Sarah Lemon, Safety Officer at Crystal Palace is to leave position at Wimbledon greyhound track It has been a long and the end of December. Sarah told the Association’s Premier League WhatsApp group that “I am stony road from the days when labelled as “ The sadly leaving Palace to explore opportunities elsewhere” She thanked her PL colleagues Crazy Gang” by John Motson, Wimbledon FC for all the help given to her during her tenure at Selhurst Park. This provoked a large number of well beat Liverpool (the Culture Club) in the 1988 FA Cup Final at Wembley, but it is a great story that wishes from safety officers around the Premier League including one from ourselves. Once again we supporters of the former Wimbledon FC created wish Sarah all the very best in her new venture. AFC Wimbledon in 2002, re-entering the game This month we welcome new members Jason Dunford of Abbey Hey FC, very much a at the ninth tier and becoming the first 21st century community club based in inner-city Manchester, and play in the North West Counties Football League. I seem to recall refereeing a match at their ground back in the 90s! club to reach the EFL. Carl Broughton has now also joined us representing Hartlepool United who compete in the Their resplendent 9300-seat stadium has National League Conference Premier League. the ability to increase to 20000 should their resurgence continue. They are already sitting It really is a pleasure to have new appointments and clubs from the lower echelons of the pyramid proudly in League 1. Throughout the pandemic joining us. and the continued suspension of football-with- spectators there has been much comment On the Corporate side, VSitePass has become members. Already clubs are showing interest about the importance of a football club to its in their multi-faceted product for controlling who enters our stadia. There is a feature in today’s community, and as we saw with Port Vale newsletter which shows how it can help your club mitigate some of its responsibilities under the in last month’s newsletter, this homecoming SG02 guidelines. Mike Dodd will be known to some of you, especially around the North West and demonstrates the vision those supporters had his company and product were strongly recommended by Ray Whitworth, once of SGSA fame when what was then described as a “phoenix” club rose from the ashes. and a great supporter of the FSOA. It is almost incredible that AFC Wimbledon hold the record for consecutive matches undefeated in English professional football playing 78 matches across 2003/2004 without a loss. I think these days most people think all records belong to the Premier League. Threat Level Moved up to SEVERE. During the month of November and following on from a number of incidents largely in France, the Terrorist threat level in the UK has been moved up to SEVERE. This means that an attack is highly likely, although we have no specific intelligence to follow the “Ws”, Why? What? Where? When? Which? (and How?) In many ways this is a return to “business as usual” as although the threat level was reduced to “substantial” in 2019, I don’t think any safety officers eased their foot off the pedal Independent Member Michael Moody keeps the FSOA posted on these situations and has received a notification from the Emergency Planning College. The link below gives us the narrative from HM Government. There are a number of additional links within the document. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/crowded-places-guidance/introduction Tel: 01254 841771 E Mail: [email protected] Tel: 01254 841771 Web: www.fsoa.org.uk Alderdale Seating’s partnership with Bradford City is well under way. David Caddick, An Evening With Simon Inglis & Lee Child – Operations Director at Bradford City, on Webinar Fund Raiser LinkedIn sent a vote of Our great friend from the SGSA, Ken Scott MBE, has sent me this which concerns an evening webinar where Simon thanks to Alderdale Inglis and Lee Child reminisce about Aston Villa. whose logo now appears on Both Inglis and Child are published authors and, like me, I’m sure you’ll have read a “Jack Reacher” novel while enjoying their shirts. yourself on a beach, cruise or around a pool. Tickets for the event are £8 with all money going to Aston & Nechells Foodbank, which serves the area around Villa Park. Simon Wake, Sales Director at Alderdale told Please follow the link to get on board. If you can’t make it, please try to make the donation anyway. me that this has been a https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8-3-to-7-2-the-football-grounds-guy-talks-villa-with-the-reacher-guy- great arrangement to take tickets-128411421017 <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8-3-to-7-2-the-football-grounds-guy-talks-villa-with-the-reacher- on board and he has another similar arrangement in the pipeline which we can hopefully guy-tickets-128411421017 disclose to you when we next go to press. We are still all trading in adverse times caused by the dreaded “pandemic”. At least Alderdale continue to gain successes. Simon is one of our longest-standing Corporate supporters and a regular exhibitor at our Conferences. Alderdale are always happy to talk to you about your seating requirements and projects whether it is a new stadium, new stand or simply a new dugout. You can contact Simon on simon.wake@ alderdaleseating.co.uk Tel: 01254 841771 E Mail: [email protected] Tel: 01254 841771 Web: www.fsoa.org.uk From the loved Griffin Park to the state-of-the-art Brentford Community Stadium Brentford FC is another great story of how a football club did not want to abandon its roots, but to remain in its own community. Indeed, the new recently- opened stadium is known as the “Brentford Community Stadium”. It’s barely a month or two since the 17250 capacity stadium opened its doors and already it looks like a hit with the fans, even though they were deprived of seeing the club’s last ever match at the famous Griffin Park, clearly visible as planes approached Heathrow Airport. Similarly, they have not as yet been able to watch their team at the new stadium and by the time football returns with spectators it will be a totally different experience for their long-standing loyal fans. Last season the Bees came so close to achieving their dream promotion to the Premier League, only to lost to fellow West Londoners Fulham in the play-off final. The unique approach to player recruitment has earned Brentford a lot of respect around the game and their new stadium will add to this. “I AM ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT THAT THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE SITE WILL RESULT IN A STADIUM THAT IS STILL DIFFERENT TO THE MAJORITY OF NEW STADIUMS, IS SMALL ENOUGH TO CREATE A FANTASTIC ATMOSPHERE YET BIG ENOUGH TO ENABLE THE CONTINUED GROWTH OF OUR SUPPORTER BASE AND OFFERS A BRILLIANT MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE FOR ALL FANS.” Said Matthew Banham, owner of the Club. Safety Officer Dave Gregg told the FSOA, ” After 116 years Brentford FC left Griffin Park Stadium in Summer 2020 moving to their new 17250 all seater home at Brentford Community Stadium. This stadium being less than 1 ¼ miles from their old stadium. Such a move would present challenges under normal circumstances, but this move occurred during a worldwide pandemic and country wide lockdown. This meant that sadly Supporters and Staff alike were unable to say a proper ‘Farewell to Griffin Park’. In March 2020 with the stadium nearing completion and a hive of activity on site, within a matter of days the developers Buckingham Group were required to reschedule works splitting the stadium into seven social distanced working areas including welfare areas and an enhanced cleaning programme. Brentford FC had wisely decided at the beginning of the build to allow Alan Walsh the Club’s Director of Operations to be part of the Project Management Team. This meant that valuable knowledge was shared at an early stage with the Stadium Operations team. Brentford FC’s Safety Officer Barney McGhee meticulous attention to detail enabled the club to produce and share stadium management documents with the Safety Advisory Group (SAG) and Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA) in a timely manner.stadium practical completion was achieved on 7th August 2020. Supported by SAG Chair Ian Innis & SGSA Inspector Geoff Galilee the Stadium was issued with a Safety Certificate on 24th August 2020.The stadium held its first competitive game on Tuesday 1st September 2020”” Read more https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/2020/august/brentford-fc-move-in-to-new-home/ https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/2020/september/griffin-park-handed-over/ Source: Thanks to Brentford FC Tel: 01254 841771 E Mail: [email protected] Tel: 01254 841771 Web: www.fsoa.org.uk Dallmeier – Delivered, the new Panomera S-Series As promised last month, our Gold Partners, Dallmeier, have released their very latest version of Panomera, a CCTV product that is used in many of our stadia.
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