{"id":2273,"date":"2021-09-10T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2021-09-10T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:03:22","slug":"heed-sign-up-to-fair-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed sign up to Fair Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gateshead Football Club has signed up to a new <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">coalition of\u00a0value-driven\u00a0football clubs working together to improve governance of football in England and Wales, called Fair Game.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gateshead join 24 other clubs including <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Accrington Stanley, Basingstoke Town, Bury AFC, Bristol Rovers, Cambridge United, Carlisle United, Chester FC,\u00a0Chesterfield,\u00a0City of Liverpool, Curzon Ashton,\u00a0Darlington,\u00a0Dorking Wanderers, Ebbsfleet United, Grimsby Town, Leyton Orient, Lincoln City, Luton Town, Maidstone United, Newport County AFC,\u00a0Rochdale AFC,\u00a0Tonbridge Angels, Tranmere Rovers,\u00a0AFC\u00a0Wimbledon\u00a0and Worcester City\u00a0as members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Fair Game is working\u00a0with a team of over\u00a040 world-renowned experts\u00a0to find long-term solutions to\u00a0issues around\u00a0the game, including protecting the heritage of clubs, a fairer distribution of TV revenues, opposing the European Super League, and tackling discrimination.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The organisation also\u00a0has the backing of\u00a0several leading\u00a0politicians, including the\u00a0Shadow minister\u00a0for\u00a0sport Alison McGovern,\u00a0the mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham,\u00a0and the Conservative MP Damian Green, a leading member of the influential DCMS committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Club Chairman, Neil Pinkerton said: &#8220;Gateshead has always been a community club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe our fans are our greatest strength. But the collapse of the likes of Bury and Macclesfield and the debacle of the European Super League have shown clearly that football needs to change.<\/p>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">&#8220;We believe Fair Game have the solutions to make it happen and that&#8217;s why we are delighted to join their growing numbers.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">&#8220;We want to turn the national game into something everyone can be proud of.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Niall Couper, director of Fair Game, said: \u201cI am delighted that Gateshead Football Club have joined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cFair Game is calling for fairness, sustainability and success. At Fair Game, we want long-term realistic\u00a0solutions\u00a0and we believe we can deliver them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe want a\u00a0sport where every fan can put their shirt on in the morning proud in what it stands for, safe in the knowledge that the traditions and heritage of their club will always be there.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To\u00a0find out more about Fair Game\u00a0visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairgameuk.org\">www.fairgameuk.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gateshead Football Club has signed up to a new coalition of\u00a0value-driven\u00a0football clubs working together to improve governance <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/\" class=\"readmore\"> Read More  &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news-media","category-club-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Heed sign up to Fair Game - Gateshead FC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heed sign up to Fair Game - Gateshead FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gateshead Football Club has signed up to a new coalition of\u00a0value-driven\u00a0football clubs working together to improve governance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gateshead FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatesheadfc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-10T10:02:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-10T10:03:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sponsor.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jack McGraghan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Jmcgraghan6\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@GatesheadFC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jack McGraghan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jack McGraghan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a8d634ec4d2039bb9714c1f16cdfcbff\"},\"headline\":\"Heed sign up to Fair Game\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-10T10:02:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-10T10:03:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/\"},\"wordCount\":339,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/heed-sign-up-to-fair-game\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sponsor.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"All News &amp; 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