A Fleeting Fancy? ; People's Club Sweat On Loyalty of the 30,000 Owners Who Paid Pounds 35

Daily Mail › February 17, 2009

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BUYING into a football club lifts the average fan on to a plain of excitement which others can only dream about. Selling your stake is usually an action undertaken by the disillusioned or the destitute.

For the 30,000 owners of Ebbsfleet United, this Thursday is decision time -- whether to re-invest in an experiment in collective ownership and the purest form of democracy in a business that is too often autocratic, or whether to walk away, appetite sated, and leave the team selection to others.

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A Fleeting Fancy? ; People's Club Sweat On Loyalty of the 30,000 Owners Who Paid Pounds 35

Unlike for Premier League owners, there is no cost attached to walking away. And the price of renewing membership for another year of Blue Square Conference fixtures, FA Trophy runs and voting on everything from club scarves to coach travel is a mere Pounds 35....

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