Vibe Bar, London, Thursday 4th March, 7p.m.
Sit Down, Shut Up: Are Football Supporters Discriminated Against? is the FSF’s free Question Time-style debate and gives you, the match-going fan, your opportunity to tell it how you see it to our expert panel of football journalists, police, and solicitors (see below).
The event is free but registration is required -- email your name to register@fsf.org.uk along with any questions you'd like to ask. All registered fans receive a free drink on arrival and non-FSF members are welcome.
Every day the FSF hears from fans telling us that they’re sick of being treated like criminals by over-zealous police, tired of taking orders from doormen dressed up as ‘stewards’, and had enough with clubs forcing them to sit down when they’d rather stand. Is this now the typical matchday experience?
Why are football supporters treated differently from other groups in society? Go to Wembley for a pop concert and you can stand without fear of ejection. Head to a rugby league match and you can drink in your seat. Try either of those at a football game and you could end up with a criminal record.
The panel will include Tony Evans, Liverpool fan and football editor of The Times; Duleep Allirajah, sports columnist for spiked, the independent online community; Roger Evans, former police match commander at Highbury; Nick Hawkins, the Crown Prosecution Service national lead on football; Henry Porter, a civil liberties campaigner and Observer columnist; and James Welch, the legal director of Liberty.
The event kicks off at 7p.m. and lasts for 90 minutes, with a 15 minute half-time break for refreshments.
Located at the Old Truman Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL and established in 1995, the Vibe Bar is one of the East End's longest running, and best loved drinking dens. The closest Underground stations are Liverpool Street and Aldgate East.
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