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ions of two or more people united by a common interest or goal but professionalisation of the game at the end of that century meant that the formation of a limited company became the only practical way to operate members disappeared from the equation the use of the word club persists however nearly always at least in the actual name of the company a breach of the trades description act perhaps if we ignore the meaning members clubs then there are to me three distinct meanings and they are all too easily confused first there is the social construct this is the club that fans normally think of as being the club it doesn t actually exist in any formal sense but is incredibly real to its supporters it provokes the till i die element and the tattoos it is built on heritage culture mentality and mythology to illustrate it i have used in presentations a photo of the famous john portsmouth football club westwood it is notable indeed for its longevity it survives the disappearance and later resurrection of a club and often with slight changes in name think aldershot think accrington stanley or conversely don t think wimbledon and mk dons it is precisely the construct of wimbledon that to some extent is still contested a fight over whose wimbledon is it anyway i m sure readers don t need telling the answer by the way this example serves well to show how this social construct is also embedded in location and identity which gives it its permanence in short it is the club as construct that fans support there is no inconsistency other than the use of the word club when fans find themselves in conflict with the owners of the club and remember there are no longer members of the club to use a second meaning the club as company a different meaning my loyalty to pompey the club as construct does not in any way automatically transfer to a loyalty to messrs mandaric gaydamak al fahim al faraj chainrai or indeed uncle tom cobleyski i doubt too that john eastwood has been tempted to have any of their faces as tattoos this distinction between club as construct and club as company is an important one in particular it should be considered when desperate directors call on fans to get the collecting boxes out to save the club fans will certainly want to save their club as construct but want to think twice about saving their club as current company i e the current board of directors the club as company does not show the longevity or continuity that club as construct does frequently the inclusion of a bracketed year in the company s name is an indication of discontinuity for example middlesbrough football and athletic club 1986 ltd wrexham football club 2006 ltd 95 of the football club companies around in 1923 are most definitely not still in existence the third version of club is the club as crew in other words the players the crew has a continuity but no consistency of membership over time the crew is a case of trigger s broom with players coming and going and sometimes reappearing in an opposition team the days of one club players such as jimmy dickinson portsmouth or jack charlton leeds are long gone as fans we show them our loyalty but the minute they leave our loyalty tends to evaporate as we perceive a lack of loyalty to the club as construct on their part three different meanings of the word club with quite significant difference in the loyalty we show them in longevity and in continuity is it just petty academic differences i think not for fans it is the construct that matters ultimately directors have been known to have no concern for club as construct the postings on this blog can certainly suggest some examples the important distinction to me is the fans view of club as construct as opposed to the directors perspective of club as company my blood boils when directors use the club as construct to get fans to help them hold on to power in the club as company there are certainly situations when fans might well be advised to not donate to collections as this can just prolong the mismanagement of their beloved club mind you confusing at haste club as construct with club as crew can be a mistake to regret at leisure as at least one liverpool fan must now be doing share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans governance identity ownership players careers tagged fans governance identity ownership players careers 12 comments another fan rescue posted by john beech on december 24 2010 following on from my posting yesterday it is interesting to note that another fan rescue has taken place this week and one which may well have seen a club survive rather than fold thanks to the generosity of one or possibly more than one fan the matter had become public back in march when hartlepool united singular since 1968 when the two boroughs of hartlepool and west hartlepool amalgamated in case you re wondering raised a winding up petition against billingham town 1 who play in the northern league division 1 the connection between the two clubs is that hartlepool reserves play at billingham s bedford terrace ground as an outsider it s quite difficult to get a sense of right and wrong in the dispute and the two parties themselves do not agree on the facts hartlepool have been seeking a sum of 10 443 97 and billingham have been and continue to be seeking to distance themselves from the debt saying it had been incurred by the previous regime according to the billingham website hartlelepool had invested in the redevelopment of bedford terrace but in 2009 things turned sour with hartlepool and sic when they took away the goalposts prior to town s first game of the season town s committee hurriedly obtained some temporary posts and the game against bishop auckland took place 2 hartlepool responded to the story breaking with a detailed statement here one thing which seems indisputable is that the dispute between the clubs had been simmering for some time it has been in and out of court over most of the last year and in october billingham turned down the offer from an anonymous fan to pay off the debt 3 the situation is complicated by the fact that stockton council own the freehold to the ground matters came to a head this week the money has now been paid and according to billingham hartlepool united have apparently found a third party willing to make payment in full of all sums claimed under the winding up petition this was nothing to do with us and we do not even known the identity of that third party 4 the hartlepool version of events 5 refers to third parties who did not want to see billingham town fc wound up my take on all of this is not to take sides i don t know enough of the facts but rather to wonder how a customer or customers i e fan or fans should step in to save a business i e billingham it just doesn t happen in other business sectors it certainly doesn t surprise me that a fan or fans should feel that strongly about their club what strikes me though is how again the fan proves to be the crucial stakeholder in the survival of the business something which many a board should take note of too many boards show a depressing indifference towards fans an attitude which i find strange on business grounds alone a very merry christmas and a happy new year to all the blog s readers postings may be a tad patchy over the next week but normal service will be resumed very early in the new year share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in debts fans stadium tagged debts fans stadium 5 comments green army to the rescue posted by john beech on december 22 2010 it s a shameful state of affairs when a business can t even pay its lower paid workers on time at christmas all the more shaming that its customers should step forward to the rescue that may not be an analysis that immediately occurs to a football fan but that is precisely what has happened at plymouth argyle 1 argyle fan ian newell through pasoti plymouth argyle supporters on the internet have started a campaign to raise money for the club s non playing staff who were paid late in november and for whom there is uncertainty over their december pay cheques as ian puts it we want to help the lads and lasses who we see every other week at home park but we also want to show to people like sir roy gardner chairman and keith todd executive director that the normal rank and file fan seems to think more of their staff than they do the plymouth directors should hang their heads in shame for what has happened to this club and the way they have treated their staff well said ian the club offers the following on their website describing what happened following the extension to hmrc s winding up petition until february the club then applied for a validation order to allow us access to our banking facilities which had been frozen pending the winding up hearing on monday we were duly given limited access to our account enabling us to carry out transactions essential for our immediate trading needs this meant we were able to pay a majority of the home park office staff in full however the playing staff and some office staff have received a partial payment 2 which is fine as an explanation but certainly doesn t constitute an excuse three cheers for ian and pasoti and three boos for sir roy and gang not that this is a unique occurrence pompey fans stepped in earlier this year to pay club creditors st john s ambulance when the club went into administration 3 as did crystal palace fans 4 and see too a good news story for football club staff so loyal that they were willing to take a pay holiday where i cited five instances it s a shameful state of affairs in any business sector that this should be a worryingly often repeated incidence it s not exactly the case that there isn t money going into the game it s just pouring out in obscene amounts to an elite amongst the employees in the christmas spirit i would point out that david james and colleagues at portsmouth did put their hands in their pockets to keep some of the ground staff away from the dole queue 5 again in the christmas spirit perhaps his greedier colleagues might like to think twice as they sit by and let their agents push their salaries up to even more ridiculous levels who knows perhaps they might even donate to the fund details of how to make a donation can be found here share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans human resource management tagged fans human resource management 2 comments fsf writer of the year award for 2009 10 posted by john beech on december 16 2010 as this is after all a personal blog i hope readers will allow me this self indulgence this morning i was presented with the football supporters federation writer of the year award by their chair malcolm clarke the funny angle reflects not our drunkenness but rather the fact that malcolm is very tall i must say i m dead chuffed i m particularly pleased to receive an award from the fsf as i really appreciate the voice they have given fandom their campaigns on behalf of individuals and for all supporters deserve widespread praise video available here share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fans tagged fans 5 comments manchester city s aspirations of global hegemony posted by john beech on december 14 2010 manchester city are the latest addition to a strategic alliance of football clubs across the world which atlético madrid have been building atlético s international agreements go back as far as november 2009 when they started to collaborate with shanghai shenhua of china 1 collaboration was essentially sporting with the use of player loans to gain playing experience the pace at which atlético is developing strategic alliances has stepped up a gear of late recently atlético has signed up muangthong united of thailand 29 oct 2 al ain of uae 12 nov 3 raja casablanca of morroco 30 nov 4 club américa of mexico unknown date and now manchester city 8 dec 5 targets for further expansion are reported to include brazil atlético paranaense palmeiras and internacional usa red bull new york san jose and chivas usa and japan yokohama marinos and fc tokyo not surprisingly the emphasis within this alliance is no longer so clearly sporting 6 to quote david redshaw of a different league the pioneering scheme aims to seek sponsorship and expand each club s image to all continents while sharing information on players through a wide scouting network it also comes at a good time for atlético as they need investors to help finance the construction of their new 73 000 capacity stadium la peineta which will cost around 175m the club hope to move in for the 2012 13 season and there are also plans to build a state of the art sports city in the alcorcón area of madrid he also reports that atlético have asked la liga if they can play home games at 12 00 this would allow their games to be shown live at peak times in the far and middle east amazingly atlético received a favourable response from their own supporters clubs who have agreed the change of hour is the way forward there s more a pre s e ason tournament involving all ten is already being lined up before the start of next season it s the now increasingly familiar sound of the untapped markets argument what seems to be being forgotten is the tapped market loyal local fans sport and business are troublesome bed fellows at the best of times but surely it doesn t make sense to kick one of them out of bed in any case the need to boost revenues is rather less significant to manchester city than to atlético manchester city have probably the most free spending benefactor ever to grace the director s box of an english football club but wait what s that on the horizon oh dear it s uefa s financial fair play protocol to keep on spending at the rate manchester city is becoming used to see an earlier posting manchester city following in pompey s footsteps they are going to have to do something about boosting their revenues if they want to carry on being a viv nicolson click here if she was before your time ironically a measure designed to reign in spending unearned money may well result in a situation that leaves loyal fans fuming at how to raise the money for global air fares and having to reschedule their saturdays during the main season to accommodate kick off times all for the benefit of new fans in the far east yet another example of what can only be described as the harlem globetrotterisation of english football how long before the premier league is reduced to the ten teams with the richest benefactors endlessly touring the wor...
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