ILSA and RAWK have been asked to help out with some research being undertaken by the Football Unit at Liverpool University.
They're looking into the way football fans are policed when travelling abroad to support their team. They're already started working with fans of other clubs in Europe but with our recent experiences in the UEFA Cup last season (e.g. problems at Athens airport, Roma) and Champions League games this year they feel we would have plenty of information and data to help them in their research.
ILSA/RAWK supports this work as it will provide information that actually leads to people making improvements. The researchers have an online questionaire which we'd ask you to fill in if you have time, and feel free to get in touch with them if you anything else to add. We hope to set up a couple of meetings with the researchers as well so that interested fans can relate their experiences.
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Football Unit, University of Liverpool
We are a group of researchers who would like to hear from you if you have travelled abroad to watch your team in the last few years and have views on the way the local police treated you before, during or after watching the game.
We are particularly keen to hear from you if you have been, or are planning to go, to any of this season's Champions league games.
You can contact us in various ways. You can leave a completely anonymous message or fill in an anonymous online survey for us on our website
http://www.footballfans.org.ukYou can contact us by email c.stott@liv.ac.uk or by telephone on 0151 794 1417.
You can also write to us at the following address.
Dr Clifford Stott,
University of Liverpool,
Department of Psychology,
Bedford Street South,
Liverpool L69 7ZA.
Your views are important so please get in touch. Please note: We are independent researchers based at the University of Liverpool. We are simply seeking to document as accurately as possible the experiences of fans. To do this we attend football matches both in the UK and continental Europe, observing the behaviour of the police and of fans and talking to fans about themselves and their experiences. All the information we record is treated with absolute anonymity. Under no circumstance will any incriminating details about specific activity or person be passed on to any police force, club or football authority.
