Recorded at Reading Football Club, Andy shares his journey into sports journalism, from growing up loving football to covering Olympic and Paralympic sport.

He talks honestly about access barriers in stadiums, learning when to ask for support, visibility on screen, and dealing with online abuse.

The conversation also explores why access and inclusion in sport still matter, and Andy’s advice for disabled people who want to work in journalism.

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You can read the survey in full via this link or visit https://www.levelplayingfield.org.uk/news-item/2025-level-playing-field-annual-fan-survey-results/

More than 2,000 disabled supporters, across 173 clubs and multiple sports, shared their real matchday experiences. Together, we explore what the data is telling us about:

• The biggest barriers to attending live sport, from physical access to public transport and ticketing
• Why demand for PA/companion tickets keeps rising – and why access to them is getting harder
• Accessible parking, sustainability, and whether clubs are being forced to choose between being “green” and being accessible
• The impact of staff attitudes, steward training and club culture on disabled fans

If you’re a disabled fan, work at a club, or care about access and inclusion in live sport, this episode is for you.

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Jon shares how his daughter Kaya inspired Lilly and Myles: The Match—a story that explores the excitement and challenges of attending football through the eyes of an autistic child.

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Ijah reflects on a playing career that spanned over 200 games for Brentford, but the conversation moves beyond football. After retiring, Ijah was diagnosed as autistic — a revelation that reshaped how he understood both his past and himself.

Ijah discuss the challenges of navigating professional football with an undiagnosed neurodivergence, the emotional toll of masking, and the barriers autistic people still face in sport and wider society.

Whether you’re a football fan, an advocate for disability inclusion, or simply interested in powerful personal stories — this one’s for you.

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He’s joined by Leeds Rhinos' Head of Customer Experience, Sian Jones, and club legend turned Inclusion Director, Jamie Jones-Buchanan.

Together, they explore the club’s journey to becoming more inclusive—from building relationships with disabled fans and creating action plans to improve accessibility, to engaging with local communities and the wider sport through the RFL Inclusion Board.

Jamie shares what he’s learned since stepping into his EDI role, how his late teammate Rob Burrow continues to influence his values and work.

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In this episode of the Level Playing Field Podcast, we dive into the findings of the 2024/25 Level Playing Field Fan Survey, the largest to date with over 2,000 responses from fans across 156 clubs.

Joining host Liam Bird are three key voices behind the survey:

• Daniel Townley, Development Officer and the data expert who pulled it all together.
• Owain Davies, Chief Executive at Level Playing Field
• Tony Taylor, Chair of Level Playing Field.

Together, they explore the standout stats from this year’s

survey, including rising reports of disability abuse, accessibility barries

with public transport and parking, and how societal attitudes still act as

barriers for disabled fans.

They also discuss what clubs and governing bodies need to

prioritise and the actions Level Playing Field is taking to drive meaningful

change.

Whether you're a sports fan, an advocate for inclusion, or just

curious about the lived experiences of disabled supporters, this episode offers

an honest and insightful look at the state of accessibility in sport today.

You can read the full survey results by visiting levelplayingfield.org.uk

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Courtney shares her journey of self-discovery and acceptance. She explores how attending live sports has impacted her life and delves into her experiences of being a neurodiverse female football fan. 

You can check out Courtney's work via her Instagram and TikTok pages

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In this episode, we talk to Jon Attenborough, a passionate football fan and soon-to-be author of "Following Sam," which chronicles his journey visiting all 42 Scottish football league clubs with his assistance dog, Sam. Jon shares the logistics, highlights, and accessibility challenges of his travels, as well as the vital role Sam plays in his match day experience.

We also discuss how clubs and fans can better support disabled supporters and touch on Jon’s nomination for the Football Content Awards.

You can watch Jon Sam and SPFL completing the 42 via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq5bMGzTVvk

You can vote for Jon and Level Playing Field in the Football Content Awards via this link: https://footballcontentawards.com/voting/ Deadline to vote is October 13th

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DSAs are dedicated groups formed by disabled sports fans to advocate for accessibility and inclusion within their respective clubs.

Join us as we speak with Diane from Chelsea, David from Hull City, Brian and Niraj from Brighton Hove Albion, and Simone from Coventry City, who share their experiences and insights on starting and running DSAs. From the motivations behind their initiatives to the challenges and successes they’ve encountered,

If you would like to know more about how to set up a DSA at your club or find out if your club has a DSA, please email info@levelplayingfield.org.uk or contact us via social media, X (Twitter), Facebook and Insta.

You can find out more about the DSAs that took part in today's episode via the links or emails below.

Chelsea DSA: chelseadsa@chelseasupporterstrust.com

Coventry City DSA: SkyBluesDSA@Gmail.com

Hull City DSA: Click this link to contact the DSA

Seagulls DSA (Brighton Hove Albion): seagulls.dsa@gmail.com 

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You can watch this year's campaign video via this link or link below

https://www.levelplayingfield.org.uk/news-item/unite-for-access-campaign-film-spotlights-non-visible-disabilities/

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Fan Liaison Officer Liam Bird sits down with Joanna Liddington from Give Vision to uncover the origin and impact of this innovative tech.

Level Playing Field Chief Executive Owain Davies takes us to AFC Bournemouth, where supporters share their firsthand experiences using the Give Vision headsets. 

Owain also spoke with Hannah Powis, Head of EDI and Engagement at AFC Bournemouth, and explored the broader implications of inclusivity within football clubs.

This episode is not an endorsement of the Give Vision headset. 

If you want to know more about Give Vision, please click this link.

You can read a full transcript of this interview on the Level Playing Field website or click this link.

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In this episode, our Fans Liaison Officer, Liam, talks to two families who have been advocating for the Changing Places facility to be installed for many years at the club as well as around the country.

Liam also talks to the COO at Bolton Wanderers, Phil Mason, about how the Changing Places facility came to be and the stumbling blocks in its way.

If you would like to know more about the Changing Places facility, please click this link

You can read a full transcript of this interview on the Level Playing Field website or click this link

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Guiding us through this exploration is Ione, a person with firsthand experience of Tourette's. But Ione's contribution goes beyond her personal journey; as the Advocacy Lead for Tourettes Action, she's at the forefront of advancing support and research for people with Tourette's in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Joining Ione is also Neve, who shares her experiences of navigating life with Tourette's. Joining Neve is her mother, Vicky, who also holds a post at Staffordshire FA. 

Lastly, we also have Ed join the conversation, shedding light on his experience living with Tourette's and communicating through British Sign Language (BSL). Ed's mother, Liz, is on hand to ensure that Ed's thoughts and feelings are accurately conveyed to our audience.

If you would like to know more about the work of Touretters Action, please click this link or the link below. 

https://www.tourettes-action.org.uk/61-about-ta.html

You can read a full transcript of this interview on the Level Playing Field website or click the link below

https://www.levelplayingfield.org.uk/news-item/tourettes-focus-for-the-level-playing-field-podcast/

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Sandra is the Ambassador & Business Liaison Consultant for the highly anticipated new 'Disability Expo', scheduled for July 6th and 7th at Londons ExCeL Center.

We discuss initiatives, technologies, and passionate individuals coming together to be part of the Disability Expo to make live sports and day-to-day life more accessible for all.

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While there, we spoke to several disabled supporters and personal assistants and got their views of the women's game from a disability perspective.

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In this episode, we speak to Deborah Dilworth, the Head of Women's Football at the Football Supporters Association, also known as the FSA.

If you are listening to this episode before 11.59 pm on April 7th, you can participate in the Level Playing Field women's game survey via the link below.

• Level Playing Field Womens Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LPFWomensGame

You can learn more about Debs and the FSA work in the women's game via the link below.

• Womes Game Strategy: https://thefsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FSA-Womens-Game-Strategy-2022-24.pdf
• Fans for Diversity x Women's Game: https://thefsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FSA-fans_for_diversity_x_womens_game.pdf
• FSA 2022 Women's Game Supporter Survey: https://thefsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FSA-Womens-Game-Survey-2022.pdf

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If you would like to provide feedback regarding your time in  Qatar, please visit our friends at CAFE and drop them an email at info@cafefootball.eu.  

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We all know about the controversy regarding human rights issues at this World Cup. But are the issues that face disabled supporters being spoken about enough?

Is there enough accessible information out there? What about accommodation? Are the stadiums fully accessible? 

Fans Liaison Officer Liam Bird asks both sets of fans all the above, plus how they decided to attend this World Cup in the desert or not. 

If you are in Qatar and would like to give feedback, please visit our friends at CAFE and drop them an email at info@cafefootball.eu. 

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You have until midnight, October 21st, to participate in the 'Transport For All' first national survey. You can take part in the survey via this link

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• The Chair - Tony Taylor
• Chief Executive - Owain Davies
• Daniel Townley - Development Officer 

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• Christine Roberts, Head of  Fan Engagement and Disability Liaison Officer.
• Andy, the Tranmere Rovers Disabled Supporters Association chair. 
• Aidan, Tranmere and all-round football superfan.

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If you want to know more about the Tranmere Rovers  Disabled Supporters Association, please click this link.

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• Amy Wilson - Everton supporter 
• Jo  McNicol - Tottenham Hotspurs supporter
• Anthony Joy - Arsenal supporter

If you would like to know more about the supporter's respective Disabled Supporters Associations, please click the links below.

Everton DSA
SpursAbilty
Arsenal DSA

The Level Playing Field Weeks of Action campaign runs from February 26th till March 13th. To find out more, please visit the Level Playing Field Website

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The Level Playing Field Weeks of Action campaign kicks off on 26th February till 13th March. Disabled sports fans, sports clubs, Disabled Supporters Associations (DSAs), and other partners across England and Wales will come together to celebrate disability access and inclusion and the immense power that attending live sport can have on a person's well-being.

Now that fans are back cheering on their team, Level Playing Field want to celebrate how crucial it is for all fans to have this opportunity no matter their disability and what clubs do to deliver this.

For the next few weeks, we will be releasing multiple podcast episodes to showcase the work that clubs across England and Wales are doing to celebrate this year's campaign and kick us off this series of episodes; we have the EFL's head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, David McArdle.

You can follow what sporting clubs up and down England and Wales are doing by following Level Playing Field social media channels 

If you are already actively involved in this years campaign, don't forget to tag in LPF and use the hashtag #ForDisabledSportsFans.

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• Steve Gilbert: Chair of the Wrexham Disabled Supporters Association (DSA)
• Brian Flynn: Altrincham's Press and Media Officer
• Alan Fox and  Alex Carter:  AFC Wrexham Audio Descriptive Commentary team
• Neil and Lora Fachie: Paralympic Gold winning couple and Altrincham supporters benefited from the service provided for today's matchday.

Level Playing Field would like to thank Wrexham  Disabled Supporters Association for informing the charity of this event. A special thank you to the staff of Altrincham for hosting us and letting us record audio on the match day.   

If you would like to know more about Wrexham Disabled Supporters Association's work, please click this link.

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The matchday steward plays a considerable part in all supporters matchday experience. Still, for some, their ability or sometimes inability to understand a person's additional requirements can be THE deciding factor regarding a positive or negative game day.

Our guests for this episode are 

• Level Playing Field Development Officer - Daniel Townley
• Disability Steward at Cardiff City Football Club - Rachel Creek
• Tottenham Hotspurs supporter and member of SpursAbilty - James Horsley. You can find out more about SpursAbility via this link.
• And farther and son Bolton Wander's fans and Level Playing Field ambassadors- Morgan and Stephen.  

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• How are Level Playing Field funded?
• Is it a mandate that all stewards be trained in disability?
• And, what is Level Playing Field doing to make attaining match day tickets more accessible?

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Disabled people travel up to a third less than non-disabled people, according to disability charity Scope. This has an impact on access to social activities like attending live sporting events.

In Greater Manchester, Less than 60% of train stations have step-free access. We speak to Manchester United supporter and Accessibility rights campaigner Nathaniel Yates who is trying to change that one step-free access at a time.

You can sign Nathaniel petition via this link.

From train to buses, we also speak with Richard Field, the Vice Chairman of the Jumbulance Trust. 

Lastly, we talk to Jo and Jeff Newall, who have travelled up and down the country watching their beloved Mk Dons. They are both joined by former Disability Access Officer for Swansea's City and Swans super fan Mark Phillips to give an insight into the problems clubs can have trying to source accessible Travel for their disabled supporters. 

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All links referenced in the podcast can be found below.  

•  Nathaniel  and  Andy Burnham video 
• Jumbulance
• SCOPE Transport for disabled people

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Level Playing Field Fans Liaison Officer, Liam Bird, sat down with Rachel Brophy, the Disability Liaison Officer at Middlesbrough Football Club, and Luke Cassidy, the Disability Liaison Officer at Port Vale. 

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In this episode, we look back to the distressing scenes witnessed and experienced by disabled supporters who attended the Euro 2020 final on the 11th of July at Wembley Stadium.

 Our guests on this month's episode are: 

• Graham and Tim Hiley. Both attended the game.
• Tony Taylor, Chair of Level Playing Field
• Nick Glynn Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundation. Specialising in Policing and Justice (Nick spent 30 years in the police force)

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All links referenced in the podcast can be found below.  

• Metropolitan Police statement 
• The F.A statement
• UEFA statement

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Seeing as football is not coming home, we thought we would focus our attention away from football. 

 Our guests on this month’s episode are: 

• Team Brit Racing Driver, Andy Tucker. 
• Globetrotting Cricket superfan, Anthony Joy 
• Community Integrated Care's 'Director of Partnerships and Communities', John Hughes

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• Team Brit
•  Community Integrated Care 

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In this episode, we focus on the very real, sometimes challenging and almost always a personal subject matter of disability abuse. 

Our guests on this month’s episode are 

• The Baroness Tanni Gray-Thompson
• Swansea City supporters Diane and Callum
• PC Stewart Bladen and PC Stuart Ward from the West Midlands Police Force Football Unit

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 All links referenced in the podcast can be found below.   

• What is disability hate crime? https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/hate-crime/disability-hate-crime/
•  How to report disability hate crime https://www.scope.org.uk/advice-and-support/hate-crime/
•  Online disability hate crimes soar 33% - https://www.leonardcheshire.org/about-us/our-news/press-releases/online-disability-hate-crimes-soar-33
•  Over 7,300 disability hate crimes were reported to the police across England and Wales in 2019/20, yet only 1 in 62 cases actually received a charge. - https://www.leonardcheshire.org/about-us/our-news/press-releases/reports-violent-disability-hate-crime-continue-rise-number-police

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In this episode, we bring you a round table discussion on the sometimes contentious subject matter of disability language and how it's used.

On the virtual round table, we have:

• Nicky Baker -  Level Playing Field 
• Warren Kirwan - Scope  
• Izi Robins - Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE)
• Stephen Miller - Newcastle United Disabled Supporters Association's (NUDSA)

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• Scope: Feeling Awkward 
• Leonard Cheshire: Words Hurt

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In this episode, we bring you a round table discussion between several football fans to discuss the possibility of COVID Passports/Certificate and what the return of fans might look like. 

We also turn our attention to this month's actions from The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to originally exclude and then strongly advise Clinically Extreamley Vulnerable people not to attend any government-led events research programs.

On the virtual round table are

• Mark Davis, the Chair of the Fulham Disabled Supporters Association Chair
• Peter Lerner, member of the Wycombe Wanderers Supporters Trust
• Amy Wilson, who is the Fans Liaison, Access and Administration Officer| Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE)
• Alan Colley, a committee member at Leeds United Disabled Organisation, also know as LUDO.
• Kristine Green, who is the Supporters Liaison Officer (SLO) at Grimsby Town as well as the chair of Grimsby Town Supporters Trust -  Mariners Trust

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• Level Playing Field is very disappointed that ‘vulnerable’ people are once again exclude from attending live sport.
• Level Playing Field response to World Snooker Championship excluding ‘vulnerable’ people from attending

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Kevin Rye Twitter
NFST Twitter
Iriss Digital inclusion, exclusion report

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 All links referenced in the podcast can be found below.   

• Spurs DSA
• Middlesbrough DSA

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In this episode, we turn our attention to the stigma attached to disabled sports fans attending live events as well as the stigma surrounding disability in general.

In this month's episode, our guests are Paul Glover, Disability Development Manager at the Albion Foundation, Marc Powell, Strategic Accessibility Lead at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), Anne Hyde, Chairperson of Arsenal Disabled Supporters Association and Nicky Baker, Disability Access Officer at Level Playing Field.

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•  The Albion Foundation 
• Arsenal Disabled Supporters Association
• RNIB

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In episode 2, we focus on the return of fans to stadia,  

We speak to Rick Riding an inspector for the Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA) who have been working with the UK Government's to bring about guidance and guidelines for sporting clubs in England to open up to fans. Rick talks to us about the work that has been happing behind the scenes as well as what guidance has been given regarding disabled supporters.

The Fans Liaison Officer heads over to Norwich City where he witnessed what the return of fans looks like as he speaks to the 'Head of Operations & Projects' at Norwich City, Greg Pillinger about what fans can expect and a few hours before kick-off, Liam sits down with two disabled supporters about their thoughts of returning to Carrow Road. 

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All links referenced in the podcast can be found below. 

• SG02: Planning for Social Distancing at Sports Grounds
• Fan Guide: Information for fans returning to Carrow Road

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In episode 1, we focus on the subject matter of the COVID Pandemic and how it has affected the sporting community on and off the field.

We speak to Dave Messenger, who is the Supporter Liaison & Disability Access Officer at Watford Football Club about the work the club has been doing to support disabled people and the broader community during this period of isolation. 

Hayley Jarvis is Head of Physical Activity at the mental health charity MIND. We discuss how the suspension of attending live sport might have impacted our mental health and how we can all support each other during lockdown two and moving forward. 

Finely, we speak to the Chair of Luton Town Disabled Supporter Association (DSA) Richard Hill and Vice-Chair of Charlton Athletic DSA, Tony Farrell about the impact that the COVID pandemic has had on them, their respective DSA and football as a whole. 

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All links referenced in the podcast can be found below. 

• Level Playing Field COVID Fan Survey
• EFL & MIND: Have Your Mate's Back Project
• MIND, Mental Health Emergency Report 
• Hornets At Home
• Charlton Athletic Existence "Under Threat
• Luton Town Fight For The Future

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This monthly podcast will bring a variety of voices from all over the sporting community to discuss disability subject matters regarding sport in England and Wales.

In this preview episode, we feature Level Playing Field Chairperson, Tony Taylor, Chief Executive, Owain Davies and Fans Liaison Officer, Liam Bird. 

All three will discuss why the organisation has decided to create a new podcast and what you, the listener, can expect to come over the coming months.

If you would like to submit a subject matter that you would like the podcast to feature, then please email liam@levelplayingfield.org.uk.

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