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Stuck for the perfect gift for a sports-mad loved one this Christmas? How about buying them an English soccer club? That's what the 20,000 plus members of online venture MyFootballClub.co.uk (MyFC) will get this year when they take possession of their very own team, Ebbsfleet United, following the completion of due diligence on the purchase of the non-league side. For around $70, "owners" will take control of all aspects of running the club - both on and off the field - by voting in online polls for player transfers, team selection and tactics. Starting line-ups are decided...
...Ebbsfleet board is happy to be the guinea pig, and approached MyFC when they heard they were searching for the perfect club to buy. MyFC has raised a takeover kitty of around $1.5 million so far and the Kent club on the southeastern outskirts of London was in need of investment, running a debt with home game crowds at around the 1,000 mark...
...first communal call it seems a wise one. Ebbsfleet sit ninth in the Blue Square Premier league and remain in the hunt for a play-off berth for promotion to the professional English Football League. And for a place that never really existed on the map, Ebbsfleet has arrived. The club was known as Gravesend and Northfleet until May when it was renamed to match the new Eurostar station nearby which opens next week. This is handier than you might think: with MyFC members based in over 75 different countries, Eurostar is also the club sponsor. Air links are pretty...
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