Wonder why we, innocent little CreweAlex.com, don't publish fixture lists? Why don't we even list the next few games? Well we are stopped by bods down the FA.
If I was to publish the fixtures for the rest of the season on the site and refuse to take them down the FA could take me to court. Fixture lists are copyright to the FA and believe it or not but you need a license to publish them on an unofficial site.
So your thinking why not just buy a license? Well its well into you £500's before the FA even listen to you, that’s just to publish 1 seasons worth of fixtures then it's another £500 out of your bank account to use the next years lot. You could have near 5 TV licence’s for that. You could buy a cheap computer for that. You could buy quite a few chicken balti pies with that. Come to think of it I could put that away in a bank account somewhere and gain interest on it for a few years, ohh now there’s an idea.
But £500 to just show us fans who we're playing next. That's stupid. It's pathetic. £500 for a few words, come on man. Veterans of this site may remember when if tried to get round it by using nicknames or juggle about with the name.... if can't even do that now, so I’m told. Fan sites are here to be helpful and with very very very biased views, why SHOULD we pay £500 for fixtures?
So the point of this story is, sign this petition, it'll only take a second, just ask the 900+ who've done it already...