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25/2: Shrovetide football @ Ashbourne
Yesterday and today was Ashbourne's annual football event. It is basically football before they invented the whistle. Ronaldo or Drogba wouldn't last two minutes in that scrum. Take a look!10/5: my football club
The BBC just ran a story about a new venture where a web site is trying to get 50,000 members to pledge £35 each to raise £1.75m which will be used to buy a controlling interest in a football club. Apparently they've already had 13,000 members register in two weeks - although registration is free so doesn't necessarily imply that they'll all pay up. But why stop at 50,000? Why not 500,000? That would enable them to spend £14m for new players every season.
This is a great idea. Move over Mr. Glazer, "here we go, here we go, here we go".
The members can vote for the club they'd most like to buy when they register and - once 50,000 members sign up - the process of choosing the right club will take place. Price will obviously be a major consideration because they'll only be £1.375m in the buying fund which has to buy at least 51% of a club. The club must be debt-free or have manageable debt and the club must have the potential to reach the Premiership.
Top of the list of clubs to buy so far is Leeds United which has the potential but also massive debt. The second and third choices are Cambridge and Accrington respectively.
So if you think you can do better than your team's manager, why not own a club and help pick the team? Real life fantasy football. Click on the graphic above to go to the MyFootballClub.co.uk site.
