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FAQs from people the UK and/or who don't follow English Football

Surely your HOME stadium matters more than the stadium of the opposition ?
Some is the terms you use are unfamilar to me (a mini-glossary)
Where can I buy tickets to watch football matches in the UK
I've heard about soccer hooligans, isn't it dangerous ?
Is it OK to display away colours ?
I've heard football fans get badly treated by the police, is this true ?

FAQs about the site itself

Who's responsible for this site ?
Can I use your text / images ?
Can I contribute to the site ?
How do you guys survive without advertisments ?
How did this site come about ?
Did you know your info about X is incorrect or out of date ?
I don't agree with your views about X
Can you add club/ground X ?


Surely your HOME stadium matters more than the stadium of the opposition ?

Unlike of lot of countries the small size of the UK (874 miles end to end) means that its quite feasible for UK based fans of all 92 football league clubs to not just watch their team at their home venue, but also at oposition venues (away games) too. Not only is it feasible, its very common too, away following of 4000+ for some Premiership teams is not unheard of.

Being a home fan is not that daunting, your local club website normally provide lots of info to help get the most out of your day out, but being an away fan is a different matter. However, this site does what it can to help !

Some is the terms you use are unfamilar to me (a mini-glossary)

Football - This certainly should not involved helmets, armour, different teams depending on wether you are attacking or defending or constant breaks in play. It's what the Americans refer to as soccer and we make no apology for not using the awful s word elsewhere. Ground - OK, football stadium sounds a lot more grand than football ground, but if you look at some of the lower division entries you see that they can no way be described as stadiums !

Being a home fan is not that daunting, your local club website normally provide lots of info to help get the most out of your day out, but being an away fan is a different matter. However, this site does what it can to help !

How do you guys survive without advertisments ?

After ploughing hundreds of hours into researching and building the original version of the site in 2000 we hit a small snag, whilst we were getting lots of visitors and many Thank You email we were actually generating far far less revenue than it cost to host. Whilst it felt good giving something back to the community in 2002 the site almost closed because we could no longer justify the money it cost to run, then ibiblio came to the rescue.

Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

We never expected them to be intrested in something so UK specific, but thankfully they were and now they host us for free. For more info on ibiblio, what they do and why, check out www.ibiblio.org/about.html.

How did this site come about ?

Picture if you will, a hundred or so Blackburn Rovers supporters on a warm spring day sat outside the Eight Bells pub in Putney Bridge waiting to take the short walk to Craven Cottage to see Graham Sounesses first game as Rovers manager. Two of these fans only decided to come to this game the previous evening and managed to find everything from ticket info, to where to drink and how to find the ground, on the Internet.

However the entire process had taken hours, information sources conflicted and much irrelevant text had to be sifted through. Over a nice cold beer Glenn & Jill Pegden decided that it would be a great idea to collect all the info a traveling fan needs and make it available on a single website and the idea of Away Guide was born.

On returning home, other contributors were drafted onto the team, plans were made, letters were drafted and ideas plotted. On the first of March the domain name was registered and the first sample pages where built. That was just the beginning .......