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Eight Premier League clubs set to break promises on access, MPs hear

By John Pring on 26th May 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Eight Premier League clubs set to break promises on access, MPs hear
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At least eight Premier League football clubs are set to break their promises to meet decent standards on access for disabled supporters in time for next August’s deadline, MPs have been told. Joyce Cook, chair of the user-led charity Level Playing […]

Disabled fans ‘delighted’ as Premier League finally acts on access

By John Pring on 18th September 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled fans ‘delighted’ as Premier League finally acts on access
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Football’s Premier League clubs have agreed to transform access at their grounds, following a 14-year campaign by disabled supporters. The Premier League announced this week that every one of its 20 clubs would have to meet standards laid out in guidance […]

Premier League ‘should be ashamed’ of treatment of blind fans

By John Pring on 14th August 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Premier League ‘should be ashamed’ of treatment of blind fans
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Most Premier League football clubs have inaccessible websites and fail to provide audio-described commentary for blind and partially-sighted supporters, according to a new survey by a user-led charity. The survey of the 20 Premier League clubs found only four of them […]

Watchdog writes to Man Utd after stewards confiscate walking aids from fans

By John Pring on 5th June 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Watchdog writes to Man Utd after stewards confiscate walking aids from fans
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to write to Manchester United and football’s Premier League after Disability News Service (DNS) passed on concerns that disabled fans had had their mobility aids confiscated by stewards. Staff at Manchester United’s Old […]

Equality watchdog contradicts football’s Premier League over access

By John Pring on 29th May 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Equality watchdog contradicts football’s Premier League over access
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Football’s Premier League has been criticised by disabled fans and the equality watchdog after defending clubs that have failed to provide enough wheelchair-accessible spaces in their grounds. Surveys have found that most Premier League grounds are falling far short of the […]

Anger after equality campaign rewards Premier League club that fails access test

By John Pring on 15th May 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Anger after equality campaign rewards Premier League club that fails access test
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Disabled campaigners are furious that an organisation that fights discrimination in football has given a prestigious equality award to one of the world’s richest football clubs, Chelsea, despite its continuing refusal to provide enough seats for wheelchair-users. It is the second […]

Pressure on Premier League to boost access, after massive TV rights windfall

By John Pring on 21st February 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Pressure on Premier League to boost access, after massive TV rights windfall
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Premier League football clubs would be guilty of a “scandalous” failure if they do not use some of a multi-billion pound TV rights windfall to improve access at their grounds according to the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner. The Conservative peer Lord […]

Top sports clubs are ‘sailing close to the wind’ on access

By John Pring on 7th November 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

Top sports clubs are ‘sailing close to the wind’ on access
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Many sports clubs across England and Wales are “clearly” in breach of equality laws, according to the boss of two charities that fight for the rights of disabled sports fans. Joyce Cook was speaking at the opening of the new offices […]

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