Jason Button

Newcastle World • 25/02/2022

New football fan engagement study gives final damning indictment into Mike Ashley's ownership of Newcastle United

A new survey has ranked Newcastle United as one of the worst clubs for fan engagement in the country across the 2020-21 season.

Jason Button's Blog • 11/01/2022

2021: A review of UK fan culture’s much-needed breakthrough year

The act of fencing-in and labelling periods of time can often be naïve and short sighted, especially directly after an event has happened. Without the wider context of what building blocks can create, develop and influence, it can be easy to assume...

Sunderland Echo • 09/08/2021

Sunderland fan blog: Laughter, hope and joy in equal measure as supporters return to the Stadium of Light

Those memories of opening fixtures gone by may have been held by the majority of the 31,549 fans at the Stadium of Light on Saturday but very few August openers will compare to the range of emotions as fans started streaming back into their second home, as Sunderland faced Wigan Athletic.

VAVEL • 07/07/2021

How could football fans be impacted by new policing bill?

On Monday night the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill moved a step closer to becoming a part of UK law after passing its third reading in the House Of Commons, but why are fangroups concerned about the proposals? And how can it impact the way football fans experience matchdays?

VAVEL • 08/06/2021

European Super League fallout - where do the English six's fan groups stand now?

The top supporter's groups of each English member club publicly went against their teams’ decision to join the league, which would see 20 of Europe’s top clubs battle it out with only five clubs entering meritocratically.

VAVEL • 20/04/2021

Fans criticism towards The Super League - explained

As such a vital part of the game, fans and supporters groups see themselves as protectors and custodians of football as well as offering the best true representation of the sport’s culture, past and present.

VAVEL • 19/04/2021

UK fangroups unite against European Super League

"Football supporters across the world have experienced the ultimate betrayal" explained the Chelsea Supporters Trust in a statement on Sunday night, with Tottenham Hotspur's Supporters Trust mirroring the sentiment, calling the move "the betrayal of Tottenham Hotspur" while asking the club to remove themselves from the new setup.

VAVEL • 18/04/2021

Supporters groups rally against European super league

The plans, which were exclusively reported by The Times on Sunday lunchtime, suggested that 12 clubs from across the continent have agreed to join a super league, with six of those coming from within the English pyramid.

VAVEL • 06/12/2020

Millwall FC and Kick It Out release statements following boos at The Den

As both squads took the ceremonial knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a wave of boos reverberated around the South East London stadium. This morning, Millwall released a statement condemning the fans who vocally opposed the gesture.

Kent Sports News • 05/11/2020

Angels fundraiser raised over £5k

A fundraising campaign set up by Bradford City fans for Tonbridge Angels has reached the £5,200 mark with the FA Cup fixture only a few days away. Bantams fan Jonnie Carrington set up the JustGiving online fundraiser on the evening of the First Round draw last week following the news fans won’t be able to attend First Round fixtures this weekend.

VAVEL • 22/10/2020

Newcastle foodbank celebrates most successful weekend on record following fans' PPV protest

The team behind the Newcastle United Fans Food Bank, which raised over £20,000 this weekend thanks to a fan protest over Premier League pay-per-view matches, have said the amount raised over the weekend is a record for the foodbank.

Vavel • 21/08/2020

Football supporters call for urgent action for clubs with new campaign

The newest campaign from the FSA, the representative body for fans in England and Wales, is looking for urgent action to offer support and legal protection to clubs in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic as all levels of the sport look forward to the 2020-21 season.

Vavel • 17/07/2020

Major League Soccer, ESPN work with supporters to reduce impact of artificial fan noise

Fans watching England’s Premier League, La Liga in Spain and the German Bundesliga matches since the leagues began after the postponements due to COVID-19 may have heard fan noise despite the empty stands but an agreement between MLS, ESPN and the Independent Supporters Council, a prominent supporters association, means the network will not be using the artificial sounds throughout the tournament.

Vavel • 17/06/2020

Opinion: Sky Sports' crowd noise is disrespectful to fan culture

As soon as it was announced the Premier League would be returning to see out the remainder of the 2019/20 season, fans looked to see how they would be able to support their teams while keeping to guidelines set by the UK Government. However, the idea agreed by Sky Sports and the Premier League is disrespectful to the fans who make an effort to get behind their teams across the country.

The Culture Division • 19/05/2020

FOR WHEN FOOTBALL RETURNS

Football feels stuck at the moment. With the majority of the globe on lockdown, so many heads are turning to fixtures and moments of the past, but fan culture never stops. Fans from Bosnia to Buenos Aires are looking to the future for their next big event, and so are we here at TCD.

Morning Star • 21/01/2020

St Pauli reacts to inclusion on terror watchlist

BRITISH fans and players of German second-tier side St Pauli have hit back at British counter-terrorism police after the club’s Totenkopf symbol was included on a document distributed to raise awareness of potential terror groups.

University final project (Story five) • 10/05/2019

Against The New Wave

In the final part of our Power Play series looking at the societal an cultural impact of sport, Jason Button moves from the left of the political spectrum to the right as we explore those who look to remain true to tradition. Since the political right have become more vocal within society, so have their followers and this has led to a rise of sporting fans showing similar leanings. “I think that there has most certainly been a rise in these groups since it has become more sociably acceptable f

University final project (Story four) • 09/05/2019

Supporting a Team and a Movement

In the previous edition of this five part series, we looked at those who are often on the edge of fangroups and fan culture and how they are looking to improve diversity within sport as a whole.

University final project (Story three) • 08/05/2019

Representing The Unrepresented

In the third portion of our Power Play series following the social and cultural power of sport, Jason Button looks at those who are still struggling to feel fully included in the world, as well as the sporting communities we explored in the previous article.

University final project (Story two) • 07/05/2019

Offering A Way In

As we saw in the first article in this series, sport has the power to both unite and divide. Offer inclusion and separatism. Whilst we have already looked at what that means on a national scale, how can it affect those where the clubs unite a city rather than a county? A community rather than a nation?