The Blue Brazil

“...I remember working in Burntisland and it was a cup game with Morton and there were no buses running so I walked nearly 8 miles and it had been snowing to get to see Cowdenbeath play Morton and the sad part about it was that Cowdenbeath lost 1 nothing but that didn’t matter it was the anticipation walking from Burntisland to Central Park and seeing Cowdenbeath.” - Ross Birrell



Thanks to Ali Reggae for putting me on to this.

It's one member one vote

"And whilst I was sitting in my overpriced seat, in virtual silence, I also became aware that I was watching players paid so much that, each season, they threatened the very existence of my club. I’m not so naïve as to believe there was ever a golden age of benign chairmen running the game with a strict utopian, Socialist doctrine. But, if the game was to evolve and progress, spiralling levels of greed that ruthlessly exploited the tribal loyalty of fans, was not something I wanted to be part of.

The Premiership marketing goons had turned me and thousands of other supporters into customers, just as if we were visitors to a multiplex cinema. The experience was controlled and choreographed to the point where even my bloody pies were themed. And so I responded, not like a fan who’s heart belonged to my club, but like the customer that modern football had sought to make me. And, in 2006, I chose to stop going."

Read more here:- Why I swapped Bolton Wanderers for FC United of Manchester

"At Union it's all about heart and soul"

"The club has been selling 10,000 shares in the Alte Försterei (Old Forester's House) stadium in the east Berlin district of Köpenick, allowing fans to have a say in how the ground develops in the future. The shares cannot be bought en masse by an oil-rich sheikh or an American family looking for a neat way to juggle billions of dollars of debts."

Read more here:- Berlin football club sells its soul - but only to fans