#MARTIN SAMUEL: Giving power to a bunch of cyber nerds is fatally flawed"

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MARTIN SAMUEL: Giving power to a bunch of cyber nerds is fatally flawed

Hednesford Town is not, after all, led by 3500 anonymous strangers, via an app. But some clubs will.

Some poor souls will be desperate, as Hednesford was undoubtedly, and eventually an entrepreneurial electrician of Wigan, Stuart Harvey, will make the promise he made to subscribers to his service to play as the Glazers. pound

OWNA Football Club is basically an Ebbsfleet United reboot. Between 2008 and 2013 Ebbsfleet was run by MyFootballClub, a web company that promised its members the immersive experience of running a football club. Decide on transfers, choose the team, and even make a phone call about replacements when it started.

What is consistent is that the goals of OWNA FC are real football clubs, with real histories and real supporters. Not many of them, of course.

Hednesford, the person who did not own the house,

Hednesford played for the first time in a local league in Birmingham with clubs (1) including Coventry City, Shrewsbury Town and Bristol Rovers, faced with the reserve teams of the founders Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion of Football League and still viable, and third on the Premier Conference in 1995-96.

The following season she reached the fourth round of the FA Cup, lost to Middlesbrough, then the Premier League-team of Juninho, Emerson and Fabrizio Ravanelli. recently, in January 2017, Arsenal paid £ 40,000 for one of Hednesford's players, Cohen Bramall.

But there is a decline. Hednesford is now the Northern Premier League team and no longer attracts more than 1,000 people. Nowadays it is closer to 350. Still, there are still 350 that do not play or go through it.

They have a club and a nickname – The Pitmen – and when OWNA FC & # 39; s interest was first put forward, many were appalled. Understandably so.

& # 39; You can not sit there and say: & # 39; I want to dismiss the manager & # 39; – that's a fantasy, & # 39; said Harvey on the weekend. it is also the fun

For taking the PlayStation / Football. [Bewerken] [lijst toevoegen] Do For the PlayStation / Football Manager element from this scheme and what remains? The small company, the boring one, that is also difficult to be successful. Ever played the Zoo Tycoon game? It sounds like a laugh that is in charge of lions and tigers and polar bears, but you spend most of your time getting the concession to make a profit and repair fences.

Running a less important football club is In the sales pitch, but also because it promises that subscribers will signing … negotiating contracts … hiring and firing personnel & # 39 ;, promises OWNA FC also select the suppliers … set access prices … manage your staff & # 39;

That sounds like a job; a routine. This is Hednesford Town or equivalent, you remember. Your staff will not be José Mourinho.

And how much leeway for brilliant entrepreneurial spirit is there in admission prices in combination with 3,500 others?

There will be a price at which place it is, a price that does not show up, and Hednesford will already charge somewhere in the middle. What are you going to do, Roman Abramovich, change that with 25p?

And let's say you are a visionary, with daring, brilliant concepts that are capable of transforming non-League football forever. Do your 3499 co-members share or understand your ideas?

& # 39; You can express your concerns and go back to the advisory group & # 39 ;, explains Harvey. & # 39;

It all sounds very sensitive – and that is exactly why the members of MyFootballClub lost their interest. his highlight, MyFootballClub had eight times as many subscriptions as OWNA FC now, but by the time Ebbsfleet was sold with the cheap obscurity looming in 2013, that number had dropped to just over a thousand.

What went wrong Reality bit.

I do not want to be a fan of football,

Hednesford is a club of the Northern Premier League. The average football fan does not even know the teams in the Northern Premier League, let alone the players.

You got the left wing at Mickleover Sports. Is he better than his equivalent to Marine or Basford United? Who knows? Who cares?

The 350 regulars in Hednesford may have an idea – but they have been declared unlawful.

It is the 3,500 others who say, those who have paid £ 49 imaging championship Manager, but really.

But instead of trading in names of households in deals worth millions, they pay the equivalent of single currency for a player who, as far as they know, stops that new reserve on the Mondeo at Mercury. -Fit last Tuesday.

The deals will be approved on the basis of anonymous statistics, because experience and real knowledge will be in dangerously short supply

A simple answer would be to the manager's preference, but again, where is the drama?

Where is the buzz as

When the demise of the deal with Hednesford became clear, two members

Then the demise of the Deal Hednesford became clear, two members of OWNA FC placed their disappointment on the fans forum of the club.

An intimate person who might have visited Keys Park, the acquisition was already over.

There was not the power of feeling that emanated from other posters, for whom Hednesford Town was not just a kind of diversionary maneuver. this does not go away

And in a week that the Football League was forced to make statements about the stewardship of Coventry City, Charlton Athletic, Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers, it is clear that the current ownership models are far from perfect.

But this? We've seen it before and we know how it ends.

It is a birth or love that can not be bought through an app for £ 49; Well, not one that is throwing Stuart Harvey.

Tadic is one who could escape

Almost every time I saw Dusan Tadic, I thought he was the best of Southampton player. & # 39; Tadic played the pass of the night … & # 39; (Southampton 1 Manchester United 2, Manchester United 2, 8 December 2014), & # 39; Tadic – arguably the most influential player of Southampton during their best spells … & # 39; (Chelsea 1 Southampton 1, March 15, 2015).

The problem was that I did not see enough of him. There was a reason for successive managers who did not start him or her, if they did, he pulled him back early. Maybe he was tired. Ajax pulled apart Real Madrid Tuesday, I was satisfied.

He was everything he had watched, especially in his first year in Southampton, before the club sold too many players to compete effectively. Perhaps English football demands a higher work-rate than Tadic thought to offer; maybe this week is his highlight in an Ajax shirt. It's just a surprise that none of Southampton rivals thought they could make Tadic's talent in England work. He can certainly play.

Almost every time I saw Dusan Tadic, I thought he was the best Southampton player

Bale is in Ronaldo and that's why he a real problem

If what remains of his career is generally pleasant, then he can put it without his agent declaring war on Real & # 39; s fans

Jonathan Barnett may be right that Bale is undervalued – although not financially – but part of the division comes from powerful claims made on his behalf. Bale's camp has turned a consistent line that forced their husbands to live in the shadow of Cristiano Ronaldo and that, given his time, he would shine.

This was an enormously overplayed hand. Bale has done very well in Madrid, but he will never replace Ronaldo's influence on matches.

Without Ronaldo, Madrid is a shadow and Bale can not change that. Barnett is admirably loyal to his client, but a refusal to acknowledge Bale's comparative limitations has long been part of the problem.

Gareth Bale would never replace the influence of Cristiano Ronaldo on games at Real Madrid

Richard Scudamore was adamant that the Premier League Intenham would not stand in the way of their new stadium.

There were limits, however, there were limits. There would be a time, Scudamore said, when the integrity of the competition should take precedence. Tottenham could leave Wembley halfway through the season, but not too late. At some point they would have to wait until August.

The idea that Tottenham can open its new stadium with a quarter final in the Champions League, seems fanciful. It is hardly likely that UEFA will punish a completely new location for such a game, even if it is the second stage. The timings are just not good. The draw for the next stage of the Champions League will take place on a week on Friday. Tottenham is then scheduled to play a home match against Brighton on Sunday, April 7. The quarter final first legs of the Champions League are on 9 and 10 April.

But it is complicated. Tottenham's next home game depends on Brighton and Millwall in a quarter final of the FA Cup on March 17. If Brighton wins, they will play a semi-final of the FA Cup in the weekend of April 6 instead of Tottenham. UEFA would therefore be responsible for the grand reopening of White Hart Lane. No chance. But what if Tottenham is the first in Europe to move away?

There are some big egos at UEFA. These are people who think they are running around the world.

Tottenham & # 39; s employees are being told: & # 39; We're not going to tell you what to do. & # 39; to expect to return home in April, and Wembley is also informed;

Everyone, from Daniel Levy downstairs, is desperate to go back. But this is no longer just about the needs of Tottenham. This is about safety and integrity. Huddersfield's fate is unlikely to be influenced by one match, but Brighton's fortune changes weekly.

Nor can Crystal Palace – which should also visit Tottenham – consider survival as guaranteed. Scudamore took the decision on Tottenham away from his Premier League, but with a power vacuum at the top, they will probably ask for more say.

If Tottenham does not have their plans just before next weekend, it is

Cardiff has had real tragedies in this campaign, so that one injury is not. Yet it is a bitter blow that the news that a damaged cruciate ligament Sol Bamba will keep the rest of the season out.

Bamba was not only the best defender of the club, he is also his joint leader in the Dutch league. At this stage, and in the position of Cardiff, turns of fate can be decisive.

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#MARTIN SAMUEL: Giving power to a bunch of cyber nerds is fatally flawed"