{"id":251,"date":"2007-08-02T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T07:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-08-05T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T13:52:47","slug":"supporter-ownership-taken-to-the-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Supporter ownership taken to the extreme&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the idea of &#8220;every major decision, on and off the pitch, being put to a members&#8217; vote&#8221; is going to work in practice, but MyFootballClub will certainly raise the profile of supporter ownership if it is successful. My big worry (other than the possibility that this might be a scam) is what will happen if it is a damp squib &#8211; it could potentially discredit the hard work of everyone involved in other forms of supporter ownership like ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The best of luck to the people behind this, and to the 50,000 people who have committed to putting their hands in their pockets without knowing which club they&#8217;re going to end up owning!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/6914775.stm\">BBC SPORT | Football | Fans close in on club takeover<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the idea of &#8220;every major decision, on and off the pitch, being put to a members&#8217; vote&#8221; is going to work in practice, but MyFootballClub will certainly raise the profile of supporter ownership if it is successful. My big worry (other than the possibility that this&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}