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Well, no-one saw this coming: Ebbsfleet United, the "world's first web community owned club", has lost most of its community in its second year of operation and the club is spiralling towards disaster on and off the field.

It's hard to say just how unsurprising this is.

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On April 26, 2007 Will Brooks had the bright idea of re-inventing the way soccer is managed. He started MyFootballClub.com, a site that is basically a community of fans who get together and play a fantasy soccer, except the team is real. The community of members pooled all of their money and collectively purchased Ebbsfleet United, a soccer club that plays in the Conference National League in England.

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Ebbsfleet United travel to Barrow for an important Blue Square Premier League (National Conference) match on Saturday. The Fleet are currently in 22nd place, having won only once so far in 16 league games. Barrow are in 16th place with 17 points. A win for Ebbsfleet could take them out of the relegation zone depending on results elsewhere.

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For the past two years, I have had the pleasure of being a member of MyFootballClub, the world's first web community owned club. We own Ebbsfleet United Football Club, a professional team in the Blue Square Premier League, the 5th division of English football.

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One of the more puzzling tactical decisions from Graham Westley so far this season has been his reluctance to give new midfielder Stacy Long a run in the team, especially as the creative side of Boro's game is not quite where it should be. It's been more long ball than Long.Â

Stacy moved to Broadhall Way in the summer after a successful spell at Ebbsfleet United.

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Two years My Football Club came into being where for £35, you could buy a stake into a Football Club of their choice and have a chance to voice your opinions - from kits, team selection - in fact own a share of the club.
The club My Football Club chose was Ebbsfleet United from the Blue Square conference. Click to continue reading...

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The build up had been going on for weeks, with the first teasers of the new kit advertised on the hoardings surrounding the pitch during Spurs' final home League game against Manchester City. "Glory Comes In Three Colours" read the tagline, and Spurs fans collectively shrugged at the thought of having another 3 kits for the fourth season in a row.

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Never say the British public, and indeed the world, can't be persuaded to vote when the matter at hand is football. While the rest of England reluctantly headed to the polls to register their disapproval of the government, members of MyFootballClub.co.uk were being balloted not just once but three times for several key votes on the future of Ebbsfleet United.

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The ongoing saga of Ebbsfleet United and My Football Club has long been a favourite chosen subject of this site. Their first round of renewals came around earlier this year, and the results were not encouraging for them. In spite of very vocal protestations to the contrary (not least in the comments section on here), the final number of 10,000 subscribers couldn't really be disguised as anything less than a bit of a disaster.

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Sorry for the lack of updates over the Easter period, but I've been very busy. I hope you all had a great easter. In football terms, it couldn't of got much better on the pitch. After bouncing back last Tuesday with a win over rivals Cambridge, Graham Westley's side have gone back to where they were before the defeat at Kidderminster.

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There's a financial crisis at an English football club. No, it's not the obvious candidate of Newcastle United, where Mike Ashley has only just begun to attend games again after the police warned him about threats to his well-being. Not Chelsea, where the Russian oligarch owner seems to hemorrhage billions a day and the [. Click to continue reading...

Things aren't looking good at Ebbsfleet United, the MyFootballClub.co.uk team. In case you've forgotten, this is where members paid £35 to be part of the online community that owns the team and votes on key decisions. MyFC bought the club in February of last year for £635,000, and membership eventually rose to around 32,000. Click to continue reading...

A year to the day this Thursday internet site MyFootballClub.co.uk completed their takeover of Ebbsfleet United but any anniversary celebrations are likely to be muted as the club desperately needs members to renew their subscriptions ahead of this week's deadline. While the past 12 months has delivered a number of landmarks and one piece of silverware [. Click to continue reading...

A year to the day this Thursday internet site MyFootballClub.co.uk completed their takeover of Ebbsfleet United but any anniversary celebrations are likely to be muted as the club desperately needs members to renew their subscriptions ahead of this week's deadline. While the past 12 months has delivered a number of landmarks and one piece of silverware [. Click to continue reading...

Interactive transfer deal Ebbsfleet United have completed the signing of Brentford's Darius Charles after a vote by members of the MyFootballClub website, which owns the club. The members, who each paid £35 to be vote on major decisions at club, decided to go ahead with the £25,000 purchase of Charles. Click to continue reading...

You may recall a recent post on Just-Football discussing 5 summer transfers that we considered made good business. Well with the frantic spending that took place on deadline day from clubs around Europe it would almost be rude not to peruse over the goings-on and assess deals that caught the eye, for one reason or other. Click to continue reading...

After Dimitar Berbatov's strange menage-a-trois dalliance with Mark Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson, and Man City gazumping Chelsea, yesterday's third oddest deadline day transfer was that of John Akinde from Ebbsfleet United to Bristol City for £150,000 plus add-ons. The transfer wasn't bizarre because of the player - Akinde has long attracted interest from league clubs [. Click to continue reading...

Stevenage have 2 games in 3 days as they plan to kick-start their 2008/2009 campaign, beginning with a trip around the M25 to Ebbsfleet United. The club from Kent beat Torquay in mid-week and after winning the FA Trophy last season, look an outsider for promotion this season. In the games between the two sides last [. Click to continue reading...

Ian at 200percent has been one of the most vocal online critics of myfootballclub.co.uk. Today he's been looking in detail at their legal documents, and raises some questions. I'm not sure any of them are "killer" but I think it's very valuable there are people like Ian questioning this venture seriously, and we need [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Myfootballclub. Click to continue reading...

The news this morning that myfootballclub.co.uk (henceforth MFC) are to purchase Ebbsfleet United has set-off a firestorm. Apparently BBC News has had over 600,000 hits on the story and the MFC website has crashed. Our own discussion here earlier today reflects the passions the purchase arouses, and there are very interesting points made for and against [. Click to continue reading...

This spring I posted about a very ambitious website called MyFootballClub. The hope of the site was to get 50,000 people to pony up a £35 membership fee, giving them £1,375,000 in seed money to buy a team with every one of the 50,000 members as equal partners having a say on player selection, tactics [...] Click to continue reading...

Myfootballclub.co.uk and their thousands of members have agreed a deal to buy Ebbsfleet United, of the Blue Square Premier (Conference National), one rung below England's Football League. Doubts are already being voiced by those within the footballing establishment, with Birmingham's co-owner David Sullivan opining that it "it will be an utter disaster. Click to continue reading...