Football goal safety is an important issue.  Over the last few years 9 children have been killed by falling goalposts.  ROSPA can inspect your goals at the same time as they undertake the annual inspection of your play area or playing field.

The Football Association have some good guidelines on football safety  www.thefa.com .

The FA recently carried out a programme of on-site inspection and testing of goalpost sets at a number of sites across the country.  Of all goals tested, 41% of mini-soccer goals, 50% of 5-a-side goals and 22% of junior goals failed stability tests!