MyFootballClub Takeover Slows

By: Martha | December 19th, 2007

Your club, people. This is YOUR CLUB! As Bob reported last month, he and his 19,999 colleagues at MyFootballClub.co.uk successfully acquired a 51% share of Blue Square Premier League side Ebbsfleet United, with a goal of completing the takeover by the end of 2007. Well, the takeover is still going ahead, but it’s been pushed back a bit, so Bob and his co-owners will have to wait a while before bringing in that sketchy director of football (and the yacht he may or may not have acquired via his involvement in the cocaine trade in 1980s Miami).

Will Brooks, the man behind the MyFootballClub magic, insists everything is cool, it’s just that due diligence — the process of going through the club’s books and “[making] sure there are no skeletons in the cupboards” — is taking a bit longer than expected. He now hopes to dot the I’s and cross the T’s to make the takeover official by the middle of January, at which point some of the money invested by Bob and friends (in addition to the 20,000 original subscribers, 5,000 more members have signed up since the purchase of a club became a reality) will be made available to manager Liam Daish to buy new blood for the team, who are currently ninth in the league.

And then, after that, Daish will eagerly listen to the advice of 25,000+ people about who to play. (Or, even better, lose his job because they vote him out. God, what a bloody nightmare that’s going to be. They’re going to have a new manager after every loss, aren’t they?)