Own the club, pick the team, upset the fans.

Myfootballclub.com is one of those perfectly simple yet so fabulously interesting ideas that you just can't understand why you didn't think of it yourself.

50,000 people club together, put in a few quid, buy the controlling interest in a football club, then make joint, democratic decisions on how the team is run.

To quote:

50,000 MyFootballClub members are about to bid for an English football club. They will make history together, voting on team selection and on which players to buy and sell.

Members will attempt to guide the club up the leagues, sharing equal ownership and control. Just like a football management game – but for real.

At the time of writing, 42,592 people had signed up, including me. In for a penny, in for a pound and all that.

Personally I have a few doubts. What kind of person will want to be head coach, with decisions controlled by 50,000 clicks of a mouse from internet geeks across the world? How sensible are these 50,000 going to be at allocating club funds? How happy are the 50,000 individuals going to be when all of their decisions are still in the minority and the team is not playing the formation or tactics they are voting for?

But, more importantly, what if they buy my home town club Exeter City? Would I really want that to happen to my team? It looks like it is going to happen somewhere.

Still, like I said, in for a penny and all that.... I'm quite looking forward to being one of those people watching how this progresses from the inside.