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After a football team can be a lot of travel - but some clubs are starting to think about their carbon footprint

anyone has adequately investigated the environmental impact of a sport like football? I love the game, but I can not stop thinking about all the trips very loyal fans along the country week after week. The collective carbon footprint must be important, right? And stadiums themselves must be very hungry for power with the large reflectors? Some of these clubs are better than others in addressing these issues?

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One would expect carbon emissions to be well down the priority list for most football clubs, as most of its priorities is to make money horse, or avoid relegation. However, a handful of clubs have made much of their efforts to improve its environmental impact.

Ipswich Town, for example, argued in 2007 for the title of being carbon neutral in the first club in the UK. And in September, organized a "Eco Match" against Brighton and Hove Albion, which uses all the food waste produced during the game to produce a "green energy" in the brewers Adnams bio-energy plant in Southwold. When Ethical Consumer magazine reviewed the records of environmental and social clubs in the Premier League in 2008 and was ranked clubs like Aston Villa, Sunderland and Manchester City and Wigan in the top and bottom of the Blackburn Rovers. Manchester City was ranked so low because, despite his ambitions for renewable energy, which was owned by a family who had "great interest in the oil industry and parts suppliers and vehicle maintenance and military aircraft. "

But as I said at the time, teams qualifying for the ethical or environmental performance, rather than the accumulated points have an obvious flaw: "Generally, people do not shop around for the best football clubs, as if they do it with, for example, supermarkets and energy suppliers. We carry clubs that support has increased. Football is a logic-free zone, and will remain so. Despite protests rate decisions capricious and unreasonable owners, very few fans boycott or change your club. "

But perhaps we are very proud of the environmental performance of your club? It has, for example, establish a car pool for fans traveling to away games? Or is actively promoting recycling containers for food and drinks at half-time

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