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The weekly newsletter from Supporters Direct – the governing body of Supporters Trusts.

Welcome to the Supporters Direct weekly media briefing, rounding up the latest news from the network, SD, sports governance and finance, and beyond.

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News From The Network

Trust Relaunching Ahead of New Season

TWTD

Luton Town Explain Their Checkatrade Trophy vote

Bedfordshire News

Colchester United Among Two-Thirds of Clubs Who Supported Checkatrade Trophy Format

Gazette

Worcester City’s Board Must Call an EGM “Immediately”, Insists Supporters’ Trust Director Rich Widdowson

Worcester News

“You’re Stuck With Me” Under-fire Worcester Chairman Insists He Won’t Quit

Pitch Hero

Checkatrade Trophy: Cambridge United fans reaction

Cambridge News

TRUST STFC Meeting Aims to Keep Swindon Town Supporters in the Loop

Swindon Advertiser

Comments & Blogs

Disabled People Deserve More From Our National Game

Huffington Post

Do Non-League fans have more of a community bond?

Non League Paper

Vacancy: Level Playing Field recruiting for an Administrator

Level Playing Field

EFL & Stonewall Strengthen Partnership

Grimsby Town

Finance

EFL statement – Reading

EFL

Nottingham Forest Supporters’ Trust welcomes Evangelos Marinakis’ Reds takeover

Nottingham Post

Premier League helped EFL set conditions for Reading takeover

Sky Sports

Governance

Sports minister welcomes FA shake-up

ENCA

Checkatrade Trophy To Keep Academy Teams for Next Two Seasons

Citiblog

Oxford United to ‘abide by the vote’ as Checkatrade Trophy retains format

Oxford Mail

Sports minister Tracey Crouch welcomes FA governance shake-up

BT Sport

National League clubs will have their say on “trailblazing” new play-off proposals

The Non League Paper

FA’s Greg Clarke: football has a serious issue engaging with LGBT people

The Guardian

Football abuse scandal: eight clubs could face sanctions after missing deadlines

The Guardian

Child sex abuse: Inquiry team to search through 5,000 boxes of FA archives

BBC

Big Changes To National League Format

Pitchero

Uefa launches drive to boost girls’ football participation in Europe

The Guardian

England appoint first ever full-time disability coaches

BBC