Think of the things some fans say – I heard a Utd fan ring in to 6-0-6 after 3 or 4 games this season saying he thought Alex Ferguson was a limited manager and needed to be replaced.

This person could be partially in charge of your football club. Terrible.

You want to have a say in the running of your club, join the Supporters Trust. Sure, it may cost more but anyone really interested will hold far more power to affect the decisions of their club than one person out of 50k (or more if the site is to be believed)

As for the actual buying of the club itself, this doesn’t seem like it will work out too work. What if, say you’re a Manchester United supporter (as seems to be the large trend on here) and MyFootballClub.co.uk buys Leeds? You cannot magically generate support for a club that you had little or no knowledge prior, and in the case of Leeds w/ the rivalry they have it is hard to ’support’ a club that you’re supposed to hate.

As a final word, taken from the website:

“Why £35?”
To make it affordable for as many people as possible. It’s less than most Premiership tickets, and also less than a new football manager computer game.

Meh. I’d rather buy FM08, would be a lot more ‘fun’

To answer some questions -

The £35 is divided into £27.50 which is paid to The MyFootballClub Trust which is registered with the Financial Services Authority as an Industrial and Provident Society, registration number 30275R. The IPS will own the club and each member will be a member of the IPS.

The other £7.50 is to pay for the running of the website, legal and administrative fees.

If the club is sold any profit will go to charity.

As regards how the whole thing will operate – the members will actually decide.

While the idea of each member voting on team selection, tactics etc. I am personally opposed to it and as the issue is being teased out on discussion boards many people are begining to realise that it may be impractical. Same with many other aspects.

I am personally interested in how the club will be structured and how the decision making process will operate. I am thinking more on the lines of a large form of supporters trust with the members having greater input.

The potential is huge. If 50,000 sign up then the club can have an extra £1.5million available. Extra people attending matches, extra merchandise and extra sponsorship.

I would actually agree that the greatest difficulty will be to keep things going for the second year.

As regards the impact on the club if the whole thing falls apart. I think many people realise the need not to see the extra money creating potential future problems for the club. Many people are talking about the need for a strict wage structure. My own suggestion is for a salary cap fixed at a certain percentage of gate receipts with the extra money being used purely for transfer and signing on fees and for developing infrastructure and the youth academy etc.

Will it work – I don’t know – but it is an interesting experiment. And if it does, it won’t half show a lot of the so-called ‘chairmen’ that fans are just as good at running a football club, if not better.

Incidentially, Australian Rules sides are all member-owned, member-run. It’s democractic in some incidences (mergers, elections) and rule of law in others. One benefit of this system is that the administrators are all fans. And yes, you do get successful, professional people willing to give up substantial amounts of their time to run their football club.

In my mind, it seems repugnant that soccer clubs are mostly privately owned. How can you say you’re a member if you don’t have a say?