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Own your own English soccer club
Published 4/25/2007 by The Footie Fool at The Footie Fool
... MyFootballClub is looking for 50,000 people to pony up a £35 membership fee. If it all works, they will have £1,375,000 in seed money to buy a team with every one of the 50,000 members as equal partners.

Here’s Your Chance to Own .00002% of a Champion
Published 4/27/2007 by ryan at Sportable, Where Sports are a Lifestyle
... What’s worse than an American buying a historical English soccer club? How about 50,000 people on the Internet each pitching in some money to buy a club? That’s what a new website is attempting to do. MyFootballClub.uk is asking for donations of ₤35 from 50,000 people in an

The Real Winning Eleven
Published 4/27/2007 by terrapin at SportsFilter
... ? Now's your chance! MyFootballClub is recruiting 50,000 members to bid for an English football club. Hoping to make history together by voting on which team to purchase?as well as which players to buy and sell?members plan to guide a club up the leagues and share equal ownership and control. Just like a football management game, but for real.

Fly Me To The News
Published 4/27/2007 by brucio at du Nord
... Check this out - "You can become the owner/manager of a UK football club." That's what the banner says anyway. It's nuts. Put down your 35 Pounds, and join 50,000 fanatics in the big to buy a club. Then the signings and line ups will be voted on democratically. Yeah right. I love it.

Interview with MyFootballClub.co.uk
Published 5/9/2007 by The Gaffer at EPL Talk
... with Tim Glynne-Jones of MyFootballClub.co.uk.

Crowd Buying of Soccer Club
Published 5/20/2007 by Mark at SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated
... A group in England is taking the wisdom of crowds idea to its logical extension into sports. Building on the concept of group purchasing to negotiate a lower rate or better terms, a group of soccer fans have started a website to develop a group purchase of a soccer club. My Football Club, aims to collect 50,000 registrations of people who commit to pay 35 pounds (about $70) in membership fees, which would give the group a purchase fund of about 1,375,000 pounds ($2,500,000) and 375,000 pounds in support funds. The group has identified a list of 15 clubs it would attempt to buy, which is headed by Leeds United, recently relegate from the Championship to League 1.

Own your very own English Football Club
Published 5/24/2007 by Tyler Ransburgh at ThroughBall.com
... Will Brooks, a former football journalist, is the creator of My Football Club. The idea is that 50,000 members join together and pay £35 per year (about $69) to acquire at least a 51% stake in an English football club. It is free to sign up and the member fee is not charged until the quota of 50,000 members is met. Currently 22,540 members have committed. The members would then have a say in all club and player issues with a majority vote deciding the outcome. The first action up for vote is which club to purchase. Currently,

Leeds and Arsenal On The Verge Of Buyout?
Published 6/10/2007 by CaughtOffside Team at CaughtOffside.com
... Beware, ye Premiership billionaires, for there could soon be another consortium-driven buyout coming to the football world - but this time it s purely supporter-driven. Will Brooks, a former footy magazine writing/managing bloke, has set up MyFootballClub.co.uk where he is asking for 50,000 fans to pledge £ 35 towards the buyout of a football club (which is currently being voted on). Sound dumb? Well, so far 33,629 fans have registered which means £ 1,375,000 has been pledged so far (pledged, not donated yet). Not bad at all. The idea is that the new club will be democratically run by the fans/owners. A coaching staff will be in place to interface with everyone via video updates to the website but transfers and tactics will be voted on by the 50,000 owners. A good idea if we ever heard it, and if the more owners they can round up the better. 500,000 donations would mean that

Own an English club (seriously)
Published 6/21/2007 by The Beautiful Game at The Beautiful Game
... It's called My Football Club. ...

Fan power: 50,000 ordinary fans to buy a club
Published 7/23/2007 by Rob Parker at Who Ate All The Pies
... No, it is not the latest online feature the Football Manager series: this is real life. Fifty thousand football fans will soon be bidding for a lower league English team. The scheme has been dreamt up by Fulham fan Will Brooks. His site - www.myfootballclub.co.uk - encourages fans to donate £35 in exchange for a stake in first-team affairs at the new club. More than 47,000 people have already pledged their money, and Brooks is just waiting for that figure to hit 50,000 before beginning takeover talks with any club. If you thought Hearts players had it bad under Vladimir Romanov, players at whichever outfit MyFootballClub turns out to be will have 50,000 owners each voting on team selection. In fact, fans can even vote on which club they would like to takeover. Leeds United are currently leading the way, with Nottingham Forest and Cambridge United also popular choices. Brooks said: "If you have 50,000 people voting on a transfer, cha ...

Own the club, pick the team
Published 7/30/2007 at RLN Football
... | 30 July 2007 That's what my football club is offering to the first 50 000 people who sign-up and are willing to part with just £ 35. I've been watching this site for sometime and they are now only 800 odd registrations away from meeting their target. As part of the registration you can even offer ideas on the team that you'd like to purchase. Leeds is number one at present and even Man United and Arsenal are up there! The idea is an interesting one. Having parted with your money and once the club has been purchased, you have your say in the team selection, transfers and the general running of the club. Personally I'm a bit sceptical as to whether this will work, but having an on-line community of members affecting the life of a football club is an interesting idea. Take a look, there still appears to be time to ...

My Football Club
Published 8/1/2007 by WaldorfStatler at Close Encounters of the Tangent Kind
... Thursday, August 2, 2007 I got an email from MyFootballClub today saying that they've now reached 50,000 members. They are now looking to get the memberships paid up so that they can officially bid for a club. If you haven't come across it before, basically it's a new idea being put forward by ...

RVP: “We can fight for the title. Definitely”
Published 8/2/2007 by Arthur Antunes Coimbra at 101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League, La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup & more
... how MyFootballClub.co.uk, the fan-based community which is attempting to buy an English football club, have managed to collect its requisite 50,000 members in just 3 months of activity. Leeds United is the primary target which the community wishes to buy. ...

The News
Published 8/3/2007 by mondesishouse at Mondesishouse.com
... --Reader Mike shares this idea: "I've been reading about this site in the UK where people can buy a share of a trustand they'll use that money to buy a soccer club in the UK and givethe members of the group the ability to vote on players, coaches,transfers, etc. Wouldn't it be great if we could do this for the Pirates?" ...

Want to Own Your Own Soccer Team?
Published 8/7/2007 by Chimpanzee Rage at Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos
... If so, then sign up with MyFootballClub. This website was set up by Will Brooks, a man with a dream, a dream to own a soccer team...and he wanted to share this dream with everyone he could because he certainly could not afford it on his own. Basically, you sign up and pay $72 bucks American (35 British Pounds) apiece and you will get membership in a trust that owns the football club after it's been purchased. The Vancouver Sun states: ...

Buy a Piece of A Soccer Club Update
Published 8/9/2007 by Mark at SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated
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MyFootballClub.com Close To Purchasing Soccer Team
Published 8/21/2007 by Chimpanzee Rage at Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos
... back, Myfootballclub.com? This was the site where you could pay 35 British pounds a year, or 72 American dollars, for a share in an English Football (soccer) club. Basically, you will be a part owner in a team, and be able to vote on all decisions in running the squad since everyone who owns the team will have an equal ownership share. You will be able to vote on "team selection and new signings to kit design and beer options in the club bar". ...

Who Wants to Be a Club Owner?
Published 8/30/2007 by PostmanE at FanHouse
... MyFootballClub is in the latter phases of founder ...

Top 10 Things to Do Besides Obsess About the RailHawks
Published 9/18/2007 at Triangle Soccer Fanatics
... 6. Invest in and manage your very own English football team. ...

How Pittsburgh can have an MLS Team
Published 10/14/2007 by RizzoSports at RizzoSports Blog
... It's a very simple idea, but I know it has lots of logistics issues it's similar to this http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/ in England. However it really depends on how you structure it. ...

Carlito’s Link Dump
Published 10/19/2007 by Dave at Dave's Football Blog
... The MyFootballClub project is spawning copycats. ( ...

MyFootballClub Prepares to Announce Club Takeover
Published 11/13/2007 by The Gaffer at EPL Talk
... MyFootballClub, the revolutionary website that launched earlier this Spring, is preparing to announce that it has agreed in principle to purchase a non-league football club. ...

They did it….MyFootballClub buys team
Published 11/13/2007 by The Footie Fool at The Footie Fool
... about a very ambitious website called MyFootballClub. The hope of the site was to get 50,000 people to pony up a £35 membership fee, giving them £1,375,000 in seed money to buy a team with every one of the 50,000 members as equal partners having a say on player selection, tactics and club finances…basically all aspects of running a club. ...

Fence, I, and maybe a few other SpoFites, are officially proud new owners of a bouncing baby football club.
Published 11/13/2007 by Texan_lost_in_NY at SportsFilter
November 13, 2007 Fence, I, and maybe a few other SpoFites, are officially proud new owners of a bouncing baby football club. : Ebbsfleet United are about to set sail. (Click on "NEWSDESK" at the top of the page). ...

5 Mistakes MyFootballClub Made On Day One
Published 11/13/2007 by The Gaffer at EPL Talk
... In EPL Talk's example, we signed up for MyFootballClub under two email accounts. One where we paid the $70 membership a few months ago and another where we didn't pay the membership fee. When the news was announced this morning via e-mail, the one to paid members was sent approximately ten minutes after the non-paid member email. ...

Raphael Nade for Ebbsfleet Utd (v Altrincham), 20 October 2007
Published 11/13/2007 by LB at Cheer Up Alan Shearer
We have touched on this subject before, but today MyFootballClub agreed to buy a controlling stake in Blue Square Premier side Ebbsfleet United . You probably know the premise - an annual membership fee of £35 gets you a stake in a club and input on all major decisions affecting the club and the team. I know there are those readers who have signed up to this venture, and earlier today ST asked me whether he thought CUAS should get involved at the start, or whether I thought the idea preposterous. Let me answer that very simply: I think this whole escapade is utterly ...

Groan's rants - MyFootballClub will never ever work
Published 11/13/2007 by Pete at The Beautiful Groan
It finally happened. MyFootballClub, a website set up to give fans the say in every decision made at a selected football club, has made its move. On the site, each registered user can pledge £35 per year and gain an equal share in the running of the chosen club. Once there are enough sign ups to buy at least 51% of the club, the move is made. Today, with 20,000 members paid up, they are ready to go. Of course, lazy journalists have reported that it will be a 700k takeover, without bothering to read the site, which states that ...

20,000 Soccer Fans Now Own Team
Published 11/14/2007 by Chimpanzee Rage at Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos
... , the MyFootballClub.co.UK people have finally successfully purchased an English Premiership Football team. The site allowed soccer fans to pay £35 each for a share in a team to be purchased in the future. Yesterday it was announced that the group had purchased Ebbsfleet United PC, a Blue Square Premier team that is currently in 9th place and just 1 promotion away from reaching Football League for the first time in team history. ...

Fast forward to the 5th Stage of Grief
Published 11/14/2007 by haastk at PlayersPrayers.com
... offers good flight connections and the greatest fan base. Is that supposed to be realistic? This question has been asked twice on Yahoo! Answers. The first answer was a sneer. But there is a more precise result as well: You would have to pay $800,000,000 to own an NFL franchise. So, Stop gatherings signatures, start collecting $800,000,000! Don't tell me this can't be achieved: 50,000 Fans Acquired an English Football Club About 50,000 myfootballclub members paid £35 (US$72.42), creating a fund of about £1,375,000 ...

Soccer Team Takeovers: Not Just For Shady Russians
Published 11/14/2007 by Parkes at And Your Kids Too
... . The move means that subscribers of the MyFootballClub will all own an equal share in the club and carry with them a vote on transfers, player selection and other major decisions. The group will also have an option to purchase the rest of the club on a future date. ...

Duke Reid Just Might Be My Dad News
Published 11/14/2007 by brucio at du Nord
... Some of you maybe remember, others are just hear about it, but last winter a group of people in England set up this website called MyFootballClub. The goal was to raise money via this site for all contributors to become owners of an English football club. And this week the group did just that. They bought lower division team Ebbsfleet United. Read on. ...

Daish keeps Ebbsfleet focused on promotion
Published 1/8/2008 by Times Online at TheGame - Times Online - WBLG
The most striking thing about spending an afternoon at Stonebridge Road was to observe how little the hysteria of the ongoing MyFootballClub takeover has impinged on the day-to-day life of ...

US Sports Fans Want To Buy A Team
Published 1/24/2008 by Chimpanzee Rage at Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos
In an idea similar to the Myfootballclub.uk's successful effort to purchase a European football club, some guys here in the good ole US of A are trying to gather sports fans together to purchase a professional sports franchise of any type. Its called Project Franchise and it wants sports fans of all types to give $5 bucks for a share in a sports team yet to be purchased. They aren't trying to buy a MLB, NBA, NFL, or NHL team yet, we all know those cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but they are trying to buy into a minor league baseball or hockey ...

Dept. of good ideas: Project Franchise wants you to be a sports owner
Published 1/24/2008 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... , if not exactly revolutionary (My Football Club successfully bid on and won Ebbsfleet United in 2007). They want to do the same with a U.S. sports franchise, allowing fans to vote for everything: the coach, the lineups, the concessions stands — everything. Judging by most ESPN polls, the nation’s sports collective sports knowledge probably isn’t the best, but it couldn’t possibly be any worse than, say, Dave Littlefield, right? ...

Soccer Fans Buy English Team By Way Of Website
Published 2/19/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... Members of MyFootballClub.com approved the $1.24 million purchase of the Ebbsfleet United club in January, and the takeover was made financially official on Tuesday. The 28,000 members of the website will also get to to vote on acquiring & trading players and “other decisions affecting the club” - all for a $68 membership fee. ...

We're Going to Wembley!
Published 3/16/2008 at Triangle Soccer Fanatics
... For 35 quid (about $70 US), fans buy a one year membership in the MyFootballClub trust and take a voting interest in the business affairs of the football club which was purchased with money raised from the membership. About 25,000 soccer fans from around the world, including myself and several other readers of this website, took the plunge into the uncharted world of fan management of a football club. ...

We're Smarter Than Gillet and Hicks
Published 5/10/2008 by The NY Kid (noreply@blogger.com) at Unprofessional Foul
... trophies whatsoever (2 points to note here: (a) one could argue about how much influence Gillet and Hicks have on results on the pitch, but for purposes of this post just roll with me; and (b) this is not a dig at Liverpool, as my beloved Gunners have also won fuck-all this season). Unlike those two clowns, we here at UF know how to run a successful football club. Join me after the jump to see what I mean. Several of us here at Unprofessional Foul are owners of a real football club. We have previously mentioned our involvement with Ebbsfleet United ...