Can a barbarian horde defeat footballs Romans?
As of today, I have registered as a member of MyFootballClub, an organisation which is aiming to buy a controlling stake in an English football club, to be administered by the members of the organisation itself. Its individual members are ordinary people, a diverse horde of barbarians at the gates of football’s wealthy establishment. In all honesty, I have no idea whether or not this scheme will be successful, or if my input will matter. I joined simply because I think that this might be one of the most important social experiments of our time. At stake is the question of whether ordinary people can compete with the mega-wealth of the likes of Roman Abramovich. Not, of course, in the sense that MYFC will be able to build a team capable of beating Chelsea any time soon, but in the sense of providing football fans with something that can compete as a form of entertainment with Chelsea. Can the engagement of being a part of the process of building a club matter more than winning trophies
