Football Collective and Fair Game join forces in coordinate effort to fix football
“We both believe football can help bring people together, transcend boundaries and inspire positive change.
This partnerships opens the door for our members to use their research and knowledge and apply them to the football.”
Paul Widdop, Co-founder Football Collective
FAIR GAME, a group of 34 professional football clubs seeking to improve the game’s ecosystem, today officially joined forces with the nation’s No 1 football academic membership body, the Football Collective.
The new partnership is a huge boost to both organisations’ aims to transform the future of football. It opens the door for football academics across the country to apply their work to help develop and implement realistic long-term solutions to the problems our National Game faces.
Paul Widdop, co-founder of the Football Collective, said:
"The Football Collective are delighted to be working with Fair Game. As an organisation they are 100% committed to evidence-based research on issue facing football, and share a passion for developing long-term realistic solutions to these problems football faces.
"The values and ethos of Fair Game are closely aligned to The Football Collective.
"We both believe football can help bring people together, transcend boundaries and inspire positive change.
"This partnerships opens the door for our members to use their research and knowledge and apply them to the football."
Niall Couper, CEO of Fair Game, said:
"It is great news to have sealed this partnership. Fair Game's strength has always been it's research. We want to engage with the very best minds in the football sphere to answer the big issues in our National Game and help change the sport for the better - and there are few organisations better placed to help in that mission than the Football Collective."
The members of the Football Collective will be encouraged to work with Fair Game across the 16 research areas to help develop position papers, metrics and academic papers.
The Football Collective aims to showcase best practice and help share academic peer-reviewed research in an accessible and understandable format for all. This includes:
Sharing evidence-based commentary on football issues
Disseminating peer-reviewed research on football
Opening debate around key issues in related to football
Reaching wider audiences through diverse mediums such as articles, videos and podcasts.
