Monthly Archives: May 2010

Forming a British Barcelona in cyberspace – the Five Pound Football Club

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Five Pound Football ClubRegular readers may remember that a while ago we ran an article on the Five Pound Football Club – well now it’s starting to become a reality!

The website is now live and subscriptions are being taken up quickly. What have you got to lose?  You could own a stake in a club for the price of a couple of beers!

Nick Thompson of Five Pound Football Club kindly passed this information on so pop on over to the site, have a look around and join Footballbits and many others in signing up:

Inter Milan may have won the Champions League final in Madrid but thousands of football fans have pledged their support to a new adventure – a Five Pound Football Club.

The relaunched website, fivepoundfootballclub.com, will offer an alternate model of fan ownership. Thousands of football fans are looking to form a British Barcelona in cyberspace this summer – and everyone’s invited. We’re looking to establish a successful, sustainable club that will benefit from the pooled resources, knowledge and enthusiasm of our community.

Fans are invited to sign up and make a five pound contribution to our investment fund, which will be used to purchase a stake in a lower league club from either Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland or Wales.

Members will be invited to read, rate and respond to articles and polls that will be published on the official site. Members will be invited to contribute additional funds – with an authority rating being linked to their personal level of investment. Members that contribute additional funds will have more authority in the votes that decide how those funds are distributed: to the playing budget, improving facilities or implementing community projects.

Over five thousand people have declared an interest in joining the community, which has a significant following on Facebook. Preliminary polls on the Facebook group have identified the most popular clubs from each country:

The most popular Northern Irish clubs:
1. Bangor (25.77%)
2. Donegal Celtic (15.46%)
3. Carrick Rangers (7.22%)
4. Ballymoney United (5.15%)

The most popular Irish clubs:
1. Derry City (28.1%)
2. Limierick (20.25%)
3. Shelbourne (18.6%)

The most popular Scottish clubs:
1. Queens Park (21.29%)
2. Livingston (16.13%)
3. Berwick Rangers (7.74%)
4. Stenhousemuir (6.13%)

The most popular Welsh clubs:
1. Barry Town (28.98%)
2. Cardiff Corinthians (12.10%)
3. Caernarfon Town (10.51%)
4. Llandudno (6.69%)
5. West End (5.10%)

Footballbits are pround to have signed up as a founder member of the Five Pound Football Club, why dont you join us and help make that dream a reality? benefit from the pooled resources, knowledge and enthusiasm of thousands of football fans, become an owner of an unfashionable side and running it your way, to create a sustainable, successful club.

Blackpool have just proved that fairytales do come true, so why not the Five Pound Football Club?

The future’s Tangerine for Ollie

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Blackpool FCWho says there’s no romance left in football just moneybags teams?
Yesterday in the Championship play off final at Wembley, Blackpool came from behind to beat Cardiff City 3-2 and gain promotion to the Premier League.
The ragtag team, managed by Ian Holloway and a record signing costing just £500,000 showed there can still be a fairytale ending for so called lesser teams.
Blackpool have had the lowest attendance in the Championship this season and Bloomfield Road only holds 12,000 fans, so some visiting supporters are going to get a shock when they get there, but no doubt that will be countered by a great weekend at the seaside resort.
Originally touted as relegation favourites, Blackpool fully deserved their win at a sweltering Wembley. All five goals came during a fantastic opening 45 minutes.
The tangerines boss, Holloway said afterwards, “The best players in the world are now going to be coming to Bloomfield Road,” and that really said it all. They will doubtlessly be favourites for relegation next season but with some astute signings and possibly some season long loan deals they could have a chance of staying up.
Footballbits would like to add our congratulations and wish Blackpool well for next season. It’s refreshing to see that there’s still hope for the small teams

It is now!

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Chelsea FCWell Chelsea didnt exactly stumble to the title in the end did they?

A stunning 8-0 win over Wigan was more than enough to bring the silver back to Stamford Bridge. Manchester United did their part with a 4-0 win over Stoke at Old Trafford but with Chelsea needing to lose the Reds never really had a chance.

2 goals from Nicolas Anelka, One each from Saloman Kalou, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and a Didier Drogba hat-trick did the business for the Blues. Drogna’s hat-trick took him to 29 for the season and was enough to win the Premier League Golden BootPremier League Trophy

They think it’s all over…

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So here we are, the last weekend of the Premier League and there’s only 2 things left to play for…
Well I say, only 2 things but they really are 2 BIG things!!

Firstly there’s the title itself:
Chelsea are at home to Wigan, knowing a win will secure the title, while Manchester United host Stoke, knowing that they have to win to have any chance of beating Chelsea to the silverware.

We reckon Chelsea will beat Wigan 3-0, while Manchester United will win 2-0 leaving the final table as it is now, Chelsea by one point from United.

Meanwhile Tottenham have a very slight chance of avoiding the Champions league qualifier if they can win at Burnley and Fulham turn over Arsenal. Dont think that will happen though, so it will end as it started will Arsenal in 3rd and Tottenham having to go through the qualification process.

We’ll know for sure tomorrow night !

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