Published 2024-02-26 21.40
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AIK’s largest supporters’ associations do not want to see an audience at the team’s Allsvenskan away premiere.
They call for a boycott against the Brommapojkarna.
- AIK’s largest supporter associations are calling for a boycott of the team’s Allsvenskan away opener against Brommapojkarna on April 6.
- The background to the boycott is Brommapojkarna’s support for VAR in Allsvenskan, the nomination of Fredrik Reinfeldt and the club’s “hostile attitude towards member democracy”.
- Brommapojkarna’s club director expresses understanding for the reactions and regrets the unfortunate statements that were made during the Stockholm Football Association’s annual meeting.
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The Brommapojkarna move from their home arena Grimsta when large crowds are expected against AIK in the team’s home opener on April 6.
The AIK heel at the Tele2 arena may, however, be greatly reduced or even non-existent.
On Monday evening, the club’s supporter groupings came out with one communiqué.
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full screen Photo: Kenta Jönsson / Bildbyrån
Several sign
“Due to the Brommapojkarna’s hostile attitude towards member democracy, the nomination of the disaster Fredrik Reinfeldt and the BP management’s craze for VAR, AIK’s united supporter groups have taken the difficult decision to call for a boycott of the away match on April 6”the supporters write.
The background to the boycott is, among other things, the Stockholm Football Association’s annual meeting last week, where BP went against the other Allsvenskan Stockholm clubs on the issue of video referees in the Allsvenskan.
BP’s board member Ola Danhard got into an argument with AIK’s chairman Robert Falck and spoke up The Express that the club’s members “are obedient” and that is why they have not raised the issue of VAR, unlike the other Stockholm clubs.
The communique on boycott has been signed by Allmänna supporterklubben, Black Army, Firman Boys, Tuxinglirarna, Sol Invictus, Ultras nord and 515.
BP responds
Brommapojkarna’s club director Peter Kleve understands that Ola Danhard’s words during the Stockholm Football Association’s annual meeting have caused reactions.
– I fully understand the reactions. I myself was not at the meeting with Stockholm’s football association, but took part in what was said afterwards. We have had internal conversations about it in the club and we have established that the rhetoric at the meeting and in interviews afterwards was not good, says Kleve.
– For us as a small club, member democracy is absolutely crucial, without the 51 percent rule we would never be able to participate and compete at the highest level, which we actually are now, both for women and men.
Kleve continues:
– For the Brommapojkarna, it is obvious that the board represents its members and nothing else. Brommapojkarna’s members have not taken a position on the VAR issue. That is why the club voted for an investigation into VAR at the meeting, so that the question can be asked clearly and with more facts to our own members after the investigation is done.
– There were unfortunate statements that went wrong in a heated discussion at the meeting and in assertive media coverage, we regret that. The Brommapojkarna strongly protect Swedish association democracy and we as a club have had major decisions made at annual meetings in recent years regarding our name issue, where members chose the club’s future, it doesn’t get any stronger than that.
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full screen Ola Danhard’s words during the annual meeting have caused reactions. Photo: Joel Marklund / Bildbyrån
2024-02-26 22:21:13
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