Buzzin Football Blog

Regular readers will know we have been follownig the story of how Blue Square Conference team, Ebbsfleet United has been taken over this season by the Internet website MyFootballClub.
It’s the first time a website has taken over a football team and therefore courted much press. Well, now the Ebbsfleet United groundsman Peter Norton is [...]

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So far so good for the team who have been taken over by internet website MyFootballClub.
Ebbsfleet United reached the FA Trophy final after a second leg semi-final 1-1 draw with against Aldershot, winning 2-4 on aggregate.
Ebbsfleet United are on their way to Wembley for the first time in their history and will meet Torquay United [...]

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Following Monday night’s EGM of EUFC shareholders, MyFootballClub members have formally completed the takeover of the football club.
The completion of the deal is the world’s first website-community takeover of a football club, and the first website-community takeover of any business.
Formerly known as Gravesend and Northfleet, over 28,250 MyFootballClub members have purchased a 75% stake in [...]

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The MyFootballClub website are presenting their members with details of the agreement to purchase a 75% controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United Football Club.
The vote will close in seven day’s time at 12.00pm on January 23rd, and the result of the vote will be published thereafter. If the majority of members approve of the deal then [...]

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The Advertising Standards Authority has told Setanta Sports that it can’t advertise Non-League fixtures in the way they have been and then not actually broadcast them.
Earlier in the season, I was happy to see Setanta advertising coverage of Non-League matches. They’d taken out adverts in the Non-League Paper and I think some reports appeared [...]

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