 Last week, the Board of Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust asked the Board of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for a meeting to discuss the Club’s medium to long-term strategy. The Club has decided it does not want to address the questions many fans are asking. It has declined to speak to the Board of its official Supporters’ Trust.
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Safe standing victory Update on Club Board Premier League / FSA Meeting on COVID FSA Premier League Network Meeting ECL and Premier League Away match ticketing Concessions and Ticket Exchange Europa Conference League Away Games Football Supporters Europe Away Fans Survey Supporting Tottenham Foodbank on match days FSA #TerraceTalk campaign Andy's Man Club Cycling to Spurs: Pedal to the Pitch London to Amsterdam 2022 Gary Mabbutt event special offer for members THST Forum  Over the past few weeks we’ve been contacted by an increasing number of Trust members and the wider fan base who are extremely concerned about the current direction of THFC.
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Return of fans to games Digital ticketing update and Manchester City debrief Other ticketing issues THFC Sanctions and Banning Policy THST Fan Survey 2021 results Governance Supporting Tottenham Foodbank on match days THST Q3 Board Meeting Blowing the whistle on online hate Women at the Match FSA survey Cycling to Spurs and Amsterdam THST Forum  It’s the start of a new season and, for the first time in 17 months, Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium will be open to full capacity. The overwhelming feeling is that it is good to be back and, as always, we start the season with optimism.
 The start of a new season has focussed our minds on a problem that has not disappeared over the summer. Tottenham Foodbank and North Enfield Foodbank are still in need of our help to support those less fortunate than ourselves in our local community.
 The scale of discontent with the way the Board of Tottenham Hotspur FC is running the Club has been laid bare in the largest-ever independent survey of fan opinion carried out by the Supporters’ Trust. Of the 8,358 fans who responded, 75% said they felt ENIC’s stewardship of the Club had declined over the last year. That’s significantly up from just 6% in our last survey in 2019. Only 9% thought it had improved, significantly down from 61% in 2019. On-field events have undoubtedly had an impact on supporter sentiment, but our findings show substantial discontent with decisions made off-field too.
THST ran its seventh annual Fan Survey from 9th to 18th June. After a pause in 2020 owing to the disruption to the 2019/20 season caused by the pandemic, we were keen to gauge fan sentiment on a wide range of issues affecting Spurs fans. The online survey was open to all Tottenham supporters, including members of the Trust.  Updates on:
Government’s Fan Led Review: THST written submission and next steps Update on supporter representation at Spurs Preparing for the return of fans from August Club ticketing meeting – 14 July Club atmosphere meeting – 13 July Business and Community matters Combatting online hate THST Fans Survey 2021 Programmes Cycle on you Spurs and Football to Amsterdam The Antwerp Arms THST Forum  If you’ve ever thought you don’t know much about art, but you know what you like, you might be interested in the OOF Gallery that has opened on the site of the old supporters’ club at Warmington House, next to our new stadium.
Trust Board member and photographer Rob White spoke to the gallery’s founder and curator, Justin Hammond, to find out a little bit more about the project at the first exhibition – pithily entitled BALLS – which promised “twisted, manipulated, deformed football sculptures” when it opened on 23 July.  The interim findings of the fan-led review into football, published yesterday in a letter from Tracey Crouch MP to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, are an encouraging start to a long-overdue process. THST is one of the fan organisations that has provided some of the 100 hours of oral evidence to the review, and our written submission is one of over 70 such supporting documents submitted to the review panel.
 In the aftermath of the ill-fated European Super League, the governance of football has come under the spotlight, most notably through the Government’s Fan-Led Review of football governance, to which THST has already submitted evidence. As part of our work, we have conducted a review of the legal structure of the Club.
Tottenham has a relatively complex set of arrangements (although comparable with those at Arsenal) and understanding how they work is important to inform discussions on future governance and ensuring fan influence.  After 18 months away and despite the continued presence of COVID-19, fans are confident about returning to full capacity stadiums, but worried about transport to and from the ground and split over mandatory testing to gain entrance.
The results come from our latest annual survey of fan opinion, this time completed by a record 8,358 people. The survey was open from 9 to 18 June 2021. With clubs and the football authorities currently discussing the return to stadiums, we thought it was timely to release figures on this important issue ahead of the full survey results being published at the start of August.  We have formally sent our submission on the reform of Club governance to the Government review being led by Tracey Crouch MP. The document sets out the context of the relationship between supporters and THFC, details how that has developed, and suggests how supporter representation could be improved without compromising the Club's ability to operate in the modern football business.
 Since we published our contribution to the conversation about change in the way our Club and the game in general is run, we’ve received a lot of support. The latest message backing our Fans and Football First campaign comes from Spurs fan and former chair of the FA, David Triesman, now Lord Triesman of Tottenham.
He says: “I support the statement and the message in the Dear Board film. It is a sensible way to move forward and while I know that club owners have not typically responded well to these kinds of ideas, they would be prudent to do so.  Updates on:
Fans and Football First campaign: Proposal for future fan engagement at THFC THST Fans Survey 2021 Football Supporters’ Association VAR survey findings Business and Community Liaison Group meeting Support for Foodbanks during Euro 2020 THST Q2 Board Meeting THST Forum |
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