The road to Wembley, the chance to walk down Wembley way, to look up at the archway, to sing with your family, friends and fellow fans to support your team in a final, that's the pinnacle of every football fan's dreams.  Unfortunately that is a dream that doesn't become reallity for many fans due to poor allocations.  The Respect Campaign is callng for a fresh look at allocations at finals, whether play off, Carling Cup or FA Cup, a fresh look which aims to give the best allocation to reward the real football fans and the real football family.

A Message To All Football Fans

The FA have called for respect in football. Respect referees, respect competitions by not fielding weakened teams, they've used the tag line 'Lose Respect, Lose the Game'.

After recently seeing at first hand in the FA Cup Final what happens to fans season after season in domestic Wembley games, we believe the respect in the game should be extended to the fans.

Each season upto 16 of the 92 league clubs will play a major game at Wembley, whether in the FA Cup, Carling Cup, play offs or community shield, and most of these clubs and their fans will have some form of problems with the FA over the poor allocations as many match going fans unfortunately miss out on being able to watch their team in what is most likely to be their biggest game of the season at our national stadium.

We understand the financial problems with the FA, and we understand the need for Club Wembley, but what is unexplainable is upto 23000 tickets given out to people who have little interest in the game itself and inevitably via an extortionate price tag, the tickets go back into the hands of the fans of the clubs playing. If most of these tickets will be taken up by fans anyway via touts, then surely the FA should cut out this extortionate middleman and supply the tickets directly.

The Respect Campaign is calling for a rethink from the FA about a fairer allocation, a look into who deserves to be counted as the football family, a greater protection of fans from touts, and a general show of more respect to the life blood of English football, the fans.

Support The Respect Campaign

If you agree with the Respect Campaign and our aim, please support our campaign.

We have a fast growing online petition and Facebook group which we'd greatly appreciate you join.

If you have a website. magazine or fanzine please feel free to promote the campaign and contact us so you can be credited on our thank you page.

And please tell everyone you know about the Respect Campaign.

If you have any ideas about how to support or promote the Respect Campaign, please email respect_campaign@live.co.uk