You and 50,000 of your Closest Friends can own a Football Club

Don’t despair. Just because you haven’t made your first billion yet and you don’t own every sports team in sight, it doesn’t mean that you, we, have to sit on the sidelines as one football club after another is bought up. We’ve got charm. We’ve got passion. We’ve got the opportunity. And by golly, people like us. It is time to bring power to the people, people. Are you with me or are you with me?

As the Sports Column tells us, there is a new venture underway in the land of cyberspace that is offering mere individuals such as you and me the opportunity to dig the loose change out from under the sofa and to band together to purchase a real living English football club.

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.

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? The question, of course, is what kind of club can you buy with a mere £1,375,000? If you look at the MyFootballClub Web site you’ll see that there are some very realistic suggestions with clubs like Fisher Athletic, Brentford, Woking and Kettering receiving votes. But then there is the second most popular choice. A small club named Arsenal. That one might be a little tougher to purchase. Instead of 50,000 friends we might need 5 million or so. Time to dig deep into your Rolodex. Anyone have Thierry Henry’s number?

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Category: England, World Football