What happens when you lock up a Celtic fan with a Rangers fan on the day of the Old Firm match? Fireworks! Thats what! Billy and Tim have been steeped in bigotry since birth. Is it possible for them to change their views? And why is the sergeant waiting on...
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...
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....
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
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...
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...
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...
The SFL have published a new official weekly bulletin with facts and figures for all the weekend’s games which you might be interested in. It’s in PDF format and can be downloaded here. It’s a bit late for this weekend’s matches but it looks like something they intend to publish...
Get yourself a cuppa before settling down to read this, it’s a long ‘un! Cover story: ‘Taking sport seriously’ by David Goldblatt | Prospect Magazine December 2007 issue 141
Stay tuned for an announcement in a few hours about which club has agreed in principle to be taken over by “My Football Club” – and which manager will become the puppet of MyFC’s 20,000 members! MyFC to become first club to be run by fans via the net –...
