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Changes at THST

30/6/2022

We’ve reached the end of an extraordinary season in which Tottenham Hotspur achieved a return to the Champions League, and where a change in approach from the Club’s owners has boosted optimism for the next campaign. We can also, mid-season World Cup excepted, hopefully look forward to a return to a ‘normal’ season for the first time in some years.

This pause, and the start of what could be a bright new era for Spurs fans, has given the Trust’s three longest-serving Board members the opportunity to do something we have been considering for some time. And so, from the THST Q3 Board meeting on 14 July, Co-chairs Katrina Law and Martin Cloake will be stepping down from our positions, and Treasurer Adam Bailey will be leaving the Board at the end of the financial year in August.

THST News - May 2022

31/5/2022

Updates on:
ENIC’s £150m investment in THFC
Away Ticketing Points Data 2016-2022
THST Summer BBQ for Prostate Cancer UK
UEFA European Competition Reforms
Atmosphere at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Behavioural messaging
Bag policy at Anfield
THST Fan Survey 2022
THST Forum update

Away Ticketing Points Data - 2016 to 2022

28/5/2022

Each year, we collate the ticketing points required for THFC Premier League away games and summarise those points in a handy infographic. Data from the last five seasons with fans present can be viewed below, up to and including the 2021-22 season.

What ENIC's £150m cash injection means

27/5/2022

On 24 May, the Club announced that majority owners, ENIC, were putting up to £150m into the Club by way of an equity increase in the form of convertible shares and warrants. This is the first new money contributed by the majority owners for some years and, assuming that most of this money will go toward squad development, can only be described as good news. The majority owners appear ready to capitalise on the perhaps unexpected success of qualifying for next season’s Champions League, in a way that they didn’t in the summer of 2018, and back the manager in a summer transfer market in which our main rivals are also set to be active.
What does the new equity issue mean for the Club’s valuation and for the c.14% of minority shareholders, many of which are regular fans who bought shares when they were freely traded on the London Stock Exchange and AIM?

Chanting at Anfield: THST comment

9/5/2022

Singing about the opposition has long been a feature of English football, and we are reluctant to tell fans how they should support the team. Nevertheless, we were disappointed to hear the “Sign on” chant at Saturday's away match at Anfield.

THST News - April 2022

29/4/2022

Updates on:
Fan-Led Review and Governance update
UEFA European Competition Reform update
Ticketing: NLD and Brentford allocations
Atmosphere
Human Rights Not For Sale
Her Game Too at Tottenham Hotspur
April’s Catering Survey
THST Charity Spurs Quiz for Studio 306 Collective
THST Summer BBQ for Prostate Cancer UK
Football to Amsterdam cycle ride
Tottenham and North Enfield Foodbanks during May
Antwerp Arms Trust offer for May
THST Official Video Podcast
THST Forum

THST Catering Meeting with THFC

26/4/2022

THST Catering Lead Rachel Martin met with Ray Watson, THFC Head of Catering, Andy O’Sullivan, Venue Director and Levi Harris, Supporter Liaison Officer, to go through the feedback and issues raised from March’s catering survey. After two years of emails and Zoom calls it was great to be able to return to face to face meetings at Lilywhite House.

Human Rights - Not for Sale

1/4/2022

In advance of Spurs v Newcastle on Sunday 3 April, members of Proud Lilywhites and THST will be on Tottenham High Road to highlight the Saudi state’s ownership of Newcastle United.

Football Clubs are important cultural and heritage assets and their use as shields for regimes that murder their citizens, jail their LGBTQ+ community and cause atrocities (as in Yemen) is something we want to keep a focus on, so this is never allowed to happen again.

THST News - March 2022

31/3/2022

Updates on:
Fan-Led Review – lobby your MP
Season Ticket Renewal deadline
THFC supports Hillsborough Law Now campaign
European competition reform
THST Charity Quiz Night at the Annie
Online Safety Bill update
Support for Ukraine
Marine presentation
Antwerp Arms Trust offer for April
Tottenham and North Enfield Foodbanks during April
THST End of Season BBQ
March’s Catering Survey
Football2Amsterdam 2022
THST Official Video Podcast
THST Forum

THFC rejects proposal to delay Season Ticket deadline

25/3/2022

After the Club told us it had decided to bring the deadline for renewing Season Tickets forward, we joined the Proud Lilywhites and SpursAbility in asking for that decision to be reconsidered. Our original letter can be read here.

Following an exchange of views over the last week, which we reproduce below in the interests of transparency, the Club has confirmed it will not be changing its decision.

You can help us fix football's broken model. Here's how.

18/3/2022

The renewed focus on club ownership over the last few weeks has underlined the need for the reforms put forward in the Fan-Led Review of Football Governance. The review made a series of recommendations that would put supporters at the heart of the game, help to protect our clubs and our game as the cultural and community assets they are, and block domestic clubs from entering a breakaway European Super League.

We need you to do your bit by joining fans across the country in urging the Government to implement the recommendations of the Review in full, and to legislate to give the proposals some teeth.

Already, we've seen some club owners and the football authorities attempt to cherry-pick the Review's recommendations rather than accept them in full. Fans of every club in England and Wales are being asked to contact their MP to ask them to press the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to ensure legislation is included in the Queen's Speech, and that the Review recommendations are implemented in full.

Below is a template that will help you put these points to your MP. If you don't know who your MP is, go to members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP. You can use the template below, or you can write your own letter. Please remember to be polite, and to make clear points. If you bcc the Trust at info@thstofficial.com and the FSA at mp@thefsa.org.uk that will help us monitor which MPs have been contacted.

If you are not a member of the Trust, please change the word "member" to "supporter" in the first line of the letter. Better still, join us!

Season Ticket Renewal Deadline: Joint letter from THST, Proud Lilywhites and SpursAbility

11/3/2022

This morning, the three officially recognised supporter groups at THFC wrote to the Club Board to request an extension of the Season Ticket Renewal deadline from 29 April to 31 May 2022.
We are reproducing the letter here for full transparency.

THST Podcast - March 2022

9/3/2022

The THST Official podcast team - Martin Buhagiar, Rachel Martin and Rob White - are joined by two new board members - Simon Sullivan and Henry Ellis - and talk about our recent AGM, the Y Word, ticketing and briefly mention that 'cruel' FA Cup exit.

THST News - February 2022

27/2/2022

Updates on:
THST AGM and New Trust Board
Fan-Led Review and Fan Engagement at THFC
THST Quiz at the Annie
Ticketing changes in post COVID era
Analysis of THFC Financial Statements 20-21
Match planning for Leeds United away
Y Word: THST position
Tottenham Foodbank during March
Antwerp Arms Trust offer for March
THST End of Season BBQ
Catering at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Football2Amsterdam 2022
THST Official Video Podcast
THST Forum

Information for Spurs fans travelling to Elland Road

24/2/2022

It’s been some time since we played a league game at Elland Road so Trust reps, alongside the THFC stewarding team and our Supporter Liaison Officer Levi Harris, met with the stadium team at Leeds United ahead of the game for a planning session.

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