It is hard to believe that on the eve of a new football season, a revolution in British football is brewing in cyberspace. In that strange virtual world a group of ordinary people, there numbers growing by the hour are gathering their £35’s together so they can buy a football team and run it their way.
The strange thing as I sit here is that when tomorrows games are played in League Division 2 and the Conference, my team is playing. The only problem is that I have no idea who that team is yet ! Just 3 miles from my home, York City and Cambridge United are playing. Both possible teams for us to buy. The exciting thing is that somewhere in Britain is a place where I would like to visit many times a year, but the element of indecision means that I don’t know where it is. It could be 3 miles away, it could be 240. Fate will dictate where I will spend my spare Saturdays in the years to come.
The whole myfootballclub experience is a quite liberating one. We all tend to get a team when we are young and stick with them. They are our team, we will support them until the day we die, yet how does it happen that we are willing to hand over our money and dream that we are about to take on the football world and established order with a team that in normal circumstances we would not dream of watching, indeed may not even know the name of their ground.
In postings on the forum, we hardly mention our own main team, apart from when we join. I think it is marvellous that such a wide spread of football fans are being brought together in a union by this new idea. How many of us would dream of having another team than our own team, but with my football club, we are allowed to get a second chance by following goodnessknowswho FC . The passion that we have for our own teams is being channelled into the new one, and with it all our creative abilities.
Football is about dreams. In August, our normal team can win the league, the cup, European Cup, then we wake up in November and realise it is going to be the normal long slog of a season, with the slight possibility of a good cup game here and there. We can probably all name who will be the top 4 in the Premiership this coming season, is that good for football? Or is it good that the big boys get so big and that it becomes an Industry? Remember, this is a game, a sport, a competition. Will anybody ever break into the top 4 and win things? Football needs a good shake up, just maybe we can shake it a little, or maybe a little wobble to begin with.
I really have a feeling that we are going to pull this off. I hope that the team chosen has a decent sized ground, as I think they are going to need it. But I think the real fun days will be when the team plays away from home. How can a team that has fans from all corners of the UK, and across the world ever really play an away game? I mean, if they play in London, the London members will go. That away trip to the north of England, will be a home game for the northern fans . When you add the teams original fans into the mix, it could be like having an FA Cup match day feeling every weekend.
Just how big can this get ? It will be fascinating to watch, and an amazing ride to be on. I mean, say we do get to the target figure of 50,000 fans, that is over half the capacity of New Wembley! Do you think the membership numbers will stop there? I don’t, I think there will be a steady rise for the forseeable future. If the team has success on the field, who knows where it will end. Just imagine if we got to a play off final at Wembley, our support would be like a meeting of the United Nations and the whole of the UK. People would travel there from all corners of the nation.
To the Football World. We are coming, this will happen. And the thing about dreams is that the sky is the limit. The only limitation on us is a lack of will to succeed , grow, and develop. From what I have seen on the MyFC forum in the 10 days since this ride has been going, there is no way that the members will slow down in their desire to make this grow and flourish.
We could go anywhere with this, many people in the Football World will say it cant work, it’s a scam, but my final message to them is quite simple, JUST WATCH US GO!
Written in August 07
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