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Fans urged to unite

Feb 14 2008 By The Stirrer

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WEST Midlands soccer fans are being urged to bury their traditional differences and come together next week to fight the Premier League's plans for overseas matches.

Malcolm Clarke, chair of the Football Supporters Federation, will be hosting a meeting in Birmingham, and says: "There's real anger about this, more than I've known over any other issue.

"Fans are telling us loud and clear they want us to oppose it. What we want to know from them is how to do it."

Ideas being considered by the FSF include a boycott of Premier League sponsors, with Clarke saying, "These companies are happy to take the glory, so maybe they should take some of the flak as well."

The meeting is open to supporters of every club and will take place at the Old Royal, Church Street, Birmingham on Friday, February 22, at 7.30pm.

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