England’s Bitcoin Club

Diversity is a key player with the Football column to enter into the tenth tier of English Football. A club housed in the Spartan south Midlands League Division One, the club Bedford FC, founded 2002, later to be renamed Real Bedford, England’s only Bitcoin club, the club’s owner being Peter McCormack of Bedford roots, a Bitcoin investor, the new money Juile on the block.

McCormack is a Bitcoin podcaster whose aim is to reach the Premier League, nothing wrong with ambition, to dream crazy tunes perhaps. The club has an average attendance of five hundred, much work to do. What do we know about Bitcoin, not a lot, time for one’s introduction, Bitcoin is decentralised, in layman’s terms, no one owns it, a strange concept, to be questioned, twenty-one million Bitcoins exist, it is real, rest assured.

The McCormack ploy is to draw on the worldwide community of 150 million Bitcoiners to support the Bedford FC initiative, to run tandem with the club’s current chairman (not owner) Lui La Mura, munch on that. Celebrity status follows with former boxer and martial art’s artist Matt Skelton, the Bedford bear, ride the Bitcoin bear. Bedford has a population of 174,000 people, so can the dream be realised, if the town of Burnley, population 73,000 can sustain Premiership football, why not Bedford, come on you Bitcoins. Bad news for the Bitcoin lovers, the invisible money has crashed by 50 percent.

Fly you Ravens

Time to ship your boat out and onto step six of the ninth tier of the English pyramid system, FC Isle of Man nicknamed the Ravens after one of the island’s national birds ‘Rave on’, a semi-professional club with attendances hitting the three thousand mark, a club with lofty ambitions to climb the pyramid system. To sustain the Raven’s ambition, the club’s supporters pay for the away team’s travel, hotel expenses and the match official’s expenses to come to the Isle of Man. Part of the criteria laid down by the English Football Association, the club had the option to enter the Welsh Leagues, but rejected the proposal with the added bonus of entry to the FA Cup via the English FA being a major factor.

The island has a population of 80,000 people with the club’s policy being that only home grown players can don the Manx shirt, many of the players do not get paid, they play for the love, the badge, the shirt, a club that unites the community, this is the power of the non-leagues, worth a visit, take in the TT races (motor bikes) on the island, the tourist trophy race, hit the high road to the football stadium, the bowl, Douglas, the never ending road of the pyramid system, the club’s motto “Bee ny Share”, Manx for “Be Better”. Isle of Man FC link to article 28.04.21 Our Dreams, Jersey Bulls.

Mansion Hill

The owner of Forest Green Rovers, the world’s first carbon neutral club, Dale Vince a renewable energy and ecotricity tycoon linked to all that’s eccentric has been the driving force behind the club’s rise from non-league entities to a league one club, so what is the secret behind the success story? Perhaps it’s all that’s green, a diet of sprouts, broccoli, spinach, cabbage and green beefburgers, no thanks.

All those greens to move the body in sync, to flush out the toxins, to renew the energy levels, faster players, quicker movement, roll the wind turbines, watch the energy flow. The Gloucestershire town is housed on a hill, population six thousand, termed Mansion Hill, let the good times roll. According to Vince, regulation in football could be a questionable offence, it harbours theoretical people, the Manero response, is that questionable foreplay, why not just do the maths club’s finances, the figures don’t lie and that’s not based on theory. Vince funded the ‘just oil’ protests, now that does need regulating, greasy burgers, not just the oil, gulp! Link to article 05.01.2021 Forest Green Rovers, The Green Effect.

A Commercial Disaster

On a recent visit to a Premier League Club shop, a lack of merchandise was clearly under the normal stock levels. Poor manufacturer’s shirt fittings was the norm and the usual staff quote followed “Go online”. Later it came to light that supply chain issues have hit 44 out of the 92 clubs failing to have their 2022-23 kits on sale. Factory shutdowns in Asia due to Covid has led to a halt, bad fitting shirts and empty stocks explained, a commercial disaster.

All Minged Out

The ongoing Steven Gerrard angst with his player Tyrone Mings has to be questioned with Gerrard showing the player dissatisfaction, that never gargles well. If Steve G wants to spit out his dummy, then take the player into the confines of his office and keep the lid on any gripes, when questioned on Mings’ non selection then to spoon feed the story that the player is injured, yes Mings might fancy himself and needs bringing down a peg or two, nothing wrong with that, but in the confines will suffice. So does Gerrard need to make an example to show his management mettle as he thinks to suggest it’s become a struggle at present for Gerrard and to angst with someone else can transpire. Managers can take this course of action to divert the spotlight from their own struggles. At the back end of last season, Villa’s season derailed with a long sequence of defeats, hence Gerrard’s management coming under the spotlight can give confirmation on the storylines, all Minged out.