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Own your own football club..

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Buzz

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i was kinda hoping they'd get Leeds.. that would've been fkin great! :D

Well they have got £700000, from 20,000 people investing at £35.00, originally they wanted 50,000 people at £35.00 a pop which would have brought them £1750000, which should have been enough to buy Leeds. ;) Interestingly they had Risdale on R4 this morning talking about this. He said this was no way to manage a team or a good way to do such business....Well there speaks a voice of experience we should all listen too.....

John am Rhein

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Someone tried this in baseball once, I think - long before the internet, of course.

 

Here you are: it was (who else?) Bill Veeck:

 

Some of Veeck's most memorable publicity stunts occurred during his tenure with the Browns, including the famous appearance on August 19, 1951, by midget Eddie Gaedel for which Veeck predicted he'd be most remembered; and shortly afterward, Grandstand Manager's Day - involving Veeck, Connie Mack, Bob Fishel, and thousands of regular fans, directing the entirety of the game via placards: the Browns won, 5-3, snapping a four-game losing streak.

 

So it actually worked!! :lol:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Veeck

Hassony

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so do you really have a say in who starts every weekend?

 

can you scout players for your team as well?

 

all the owners can get in for free i guess, would that hurt the gate receipts?

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http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/Soccer/...2220348,00.html

 

Web fans snap up soccer club

 

 

London - Thousands of sports fans have clubbed together to take control of a struggling English football club, gaining power over everything from team selection to transfers, their organisation said on Tuesday.

 

The fans each paid a 35-pound (50-euro, $73) annual fee to sign up to www.myfootballclub.co.uk, which has spent months scouring the leagues to find a suitable club to buy for the unprecedented experiment.

 

Now the website has announced that it has agreed to snap up a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United, lying ninth in the football conference - the fifth tier of English football, and a world away from the glitz of the top flight.

 

Will Brooks, a spokesperson for www.myfootballclub.co.uk, told AFP that more than 20 000 people had signed up, raising over 700 000 pounds ($1.4m) which will now be ploughed into the side.

 

"Throughout the week, the coaching staff and the head coach will report to the members about the upcoming opposition, who's playing well in training and go into what happened in the last game," he said.

 

"This information will then be posted on the website, where fans will be able to choose which players they want to see on the pitch," he added.

 

Fully professional

 

They will also be able to suggest players for the club to buy and veto any which the head coach, former Ireland international Liam Daish, wants.

 

Brooks said that Daish and the team's players, who are fully professional, have welcomed the move because of the extra support and sponsorship which the club, based in Kent, southern England, would attract.

 

"It's got real benefits for the club," he said.

 

"They're doing very well but to get to the next level, they need more investment and more fans."

 

Daish insisted that his job "won't change that much".

 

"Picking elevens and formations isn't a precise science and luck often plays its part," he added. "As a club, we'll select an eleven and formation together.

 

"But just as before, what goes on at the training ground, in the dressing room on matchday is down to me."

 

Brooks added that Daish would now be in "potentially the safest job in football".

 

"If things are going wrong, he can turn around to members and say 'you're picking the wrong teams.' He's in quite a nice position," he added.

 

The website is still signing up new members who, Brooks said, should have the option of buying 100% of the club at a fixed price in future.

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