MyFootballClub


The Internet could change football for ever if Will Brooks - the creator of MyFootballClub - has his way.

Brooks has launched a website with the revolutionary aim of recruiting 50,000 fans to take over a football club.

MyFootballClub wants people to pay £35 in a bid to raise £1.4m to buy a team, with each member an equal partner.

Members will have a vote on transfers as well as player selection and all major decisions affecting the club.

"I've created a vehicle that will pool fans' opinions, passion and wealth and turn fantasy football into reality," creator Will Brooks told BBC Sport.

Brooks is hoping to get 50,000 people to sign up within five months and having barely launched he's already received an encouraging reaction, interestingly from overseas as well.

Supporters Trusts have been an important step in involving supporters more directly with clubs, but Brooks' scheme aims to take things one step forward by using the speed and power of the Internet to get fans an even greater say in the running of a club.

He told me: "I think fan opinion is often proved right and is too frequently dismissed by those 'in the game'.

(this is taken from BBC 606 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A22246940?s_fromedit=1&s_typedarticle=edit)

Sounds like great fun to me!! I'm planning to sign up, anyone else interested?