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Mental well-being advice for football writers
Paul McCarthy, our Executive Secretary, has posted an important message on Twitter about mental health (below). The FWA and our chair Carrie Brown have worked hard with the FA, via their HEADS UP campaign, to develop a resource pack specifically for FWA members: https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk/toolkit/mental-health-some-pointers-for-football-writers/Tags: Carrie Brown, fa, Heads Up, Mental Health, paul mccarthy, the fa
FA must use new FIFA powers
IT WAS good to see the Football Association finally admit that they CAN take retrospective action against players.Footballwriters.co.uk pointed out last week that there was no FIFA regulation preventing the FA from upgrading a yellow card to a red to rectify an obvious error by the referee.
Tags: Christopher Davies, editorial, fa, fifa, opinion
Spanish FA to help Euro contenders
The Spanish Football Federation are willing to help Barcelona, Real Madrid and Valencia if they reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League by allowing them to play on the Friday before the European showdowns.The trio face Arsenal, Lyon and Schalke 04 in the second leg of the round of 16. The successful clubs will be given a minimum of four days to prepare for their Champions League quarter-finals ties – of course there could be an all-Spanish class as there is no country ‘seeding’ at the quarter-finals stage.
Tags: Christopher Davies, editorial, fa, opinion
Football crime can’t pay
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION maintain they cannot take action against a player if the referee has seen the incident even if his decision at the time seems obviously wrong.FIFA, the FA say, do not allow this course of action so Wayne Rooney escaped disciplinary action for what most observers believed was an act of violent conduct on Wigan's James McCarthy.
Tags: Christopher Davies, editorial, fa, opinion
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