Author: Alan Russell

Recommended Reading 6

Recommended Reading

Raith Supporters Trust Board member Steven Lawther has written a book about our famous League Cup victory in 1994. “Unthinkable” tells the story of how the club went from playing in front of a few hundred people at the bottom of the old Second Division to the Premier Division and...

A Trust Issue 4

A Trust Issue

I found this article on a football blog called Twohundredpercent, and I had to read one sentence twice before I believed it: the top four in the English Premiership, who dominated the latter stages of the “world’s greatest sporting spectacle”, the Champion’s League, have combined debts of almost £2 billion....

MyFootballClub – Reality Bites 1

MyFootballClub – Reality Bites

The twohundredpercent blog reported on happenings at Ebbsfleet United five weeks after the takeover by MyFC, in particular how the principle of 29,000 members picking the team is working out in practice. Twohundredpercent: Ghosts In The Machine

Invest in an ISA and support the Raith Trust! 0

Invest in an ISA and support the Raith Trust!

Isn’t it lovely when nice things happen? L&G is offering cashback for you and £110 to The Raith Trust when you invest in a new ISA or top-up your ISA before the end of the tax year. Cashback will be available for all index-tracking ISAs: SPREAD THE RISK – L&G...

Hearts’ Spiralling Debt 4

Hearts’ Spiralling Debt

I was browsing a website called euFootball.biz this morning and found a couple of articles about Hearts. The first one is from February of last year and announces that the club would be asking shareholders to approve an increase in the board’s borrowing power, doubling the amount from £20 million...

Kirkcaldy YM Juniors to be reformed? 0

Kirkcaldy YM Juniors to be reformed?

A public meeting is being held this Thursday, 7th February, at 7pm in the Town House, Kirkcaldy to discuss the possible reformation of Kirkcaldy’s other football cllub. As the following post on Fantalk says, if you have an interest in keeping junior football alive in the town, try and get...

Fans make Liverpool takeover move 1

Fans make Liverpool takeover move

The latest in the ongoing saga about Liverpool’s ownership. To me the target seems like a difficult one to reach – the article talks about 100,000 fans raising £500m, which would be an average investment of £5,000 each – but I think the “Barcelona model” would be an interesting one...

Raith Rovers – Who Owns What? 18

Raith Rovers – Who Owns What?

In the run-up to Christmas, we held the first of a series of informal meetings for our members to explore specific topics in detail with us. On this occasion the format was extremely informal – an open invitation to join us for a drink and a chat in the Novar...

Members Meeting, 8th December – Club Ownership 0

Members Meeting, 8th December – Club Ownership

At our recent AGM we shared plans for a series of informal members’ meetings, with the first to be held in late November. I’d like to firstly apologise for not meeting that timescale, and secondly extend an invitation to a *very* informal get-together before the Brechin game on Saturday, December...