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Remember Ebbsfleet United a small non league football club which used ‘crowd sourcing’ to galvanise members to dip into their pockets for the poultry sum of £35 each. This enabled the club to begin the process of changing ownership and gave the members a vote on picking the team amongst other club related matters.

At the time I commented you could be a member of a football club and have no say in the club at all. Well welcome to premiership ‘crowd sourcing’ aimed at Liverpool Football Club. It’s no secret the Liverpool faithful never wanted the club sold in the first place, let alone in American hands.

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ebbsfleet logoEbbsfleet 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….

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