Ebbsfleet United Football Club takes on ‘crowd sourcing’ I nearly overlooked this, assuming everyone knows about it already. Then I got an email from a footballing friend who said, you haven’t included Ebbsfleet United on your blog, this shows exactly how crowd sourcing works in real life. So I better get to it….

…. duly noted so here goes. MyFootballClub has voted by 95.9% (some 17,000 votes out of nearly 18,000) in favour of going ahead with the deal. A bit of history here, I picked this one up watching the news months ago and within 5 mins I was reading all about it on MyFootballClub.co.uk so what is it and how does it work?

In summary the public are allowed to buy membership for £35, this will entitle you to vote on the team leaving the coach to do just that, coach. Yes you read right, the members pick the team not the manager.

Effectively there is no manager only a head coach, we the collective public are picking the team. When you consider you can be a member of a football club and the only voice you have is standing outside the gates, saying your unhappy with X, Y or Z this gives its members an added incentive. I’m loving this……

If you’ve ever been to a football game, you’ll know full well that everyone thinks they could do a better job than the manager and they voice their opinion in graphic terms. / So why not put your money where your mouth is and join in (thats a rhetorical question btw) however Ebbsfleet United members have done just that and a BIG round off applause is well deserved.

This is a radical and bold move, yet I like it lots! The coach is responsible for getting the best out of the players not picking the team. It seems someone is thinking out of the box at Ebbsfleet United and I just love that they are using ‘crowd sourcing’ to make it happen. You’ve got to take you hat of to them, these guys have vision. Today a football club, tomorrow a ?!?!?!? hmm you decide. Check out the full story, your voting rights etc at MyFootballClub