Bringing Communism To Football

Ebbsfleet United FC has become a club of the people.

MyFootballClub is a football fan community website. They have put together a bid to buy a majority share of EUFC (51%). 20,00 fans have each paid £35 to have the right to participate in decisions such as player selection and transfers.

There has been a lot of debate about it today. Some say it is ridiculous and will lead to chaos and confusion. There is also the criticism that many if not most of those involved are not Ebbsfleet fans and will therefore tinker without scruple.

On the other hand, some argue that it is an amazing experiment. A complete reversal of the "rich tycoon adopts football team as plaything" a la Abramovich, Al Fayed and, dare I say it, Mandaric.

And even if you sat down and planned for hours, weeks, months, you could not predict how things will go.

I will watch with fascination.

Ginger Mourinho

The Blue Army is gearing up.

On 31st October we play Chelsea in the Football League Cup. 6,500 tickets have been sold to LCFC fans, with over 2000 going on the 39 official coaches.

And in an amazing coincidence, Gary Megson has recently been dubbed Ginger Mourinho by Foxes fans. Not that I am convinced the Chelsea fans will be fooled of course. I mean our fox-coloured version could not in all honesty be mistaken for a twin, tragically separated at birth from The Special One.

I do hope, though, that Megson has built a better relationship with Milan than poor Jose and Abramovich.

Great Expectations

Fair play to those Foxes!

Against my expectations they beat Sheffield Wednesday away yesterday 0 -2.

Interesting thing expectations. In my experience, one of the biggest reason why people fail is because expectations are unmet. Whether your own or those of other people.

Spurs' Martin Jol is certainly struggling to meet the ones placed upon him at the moment. From the various accounts, the key problem which led to the conflict between Mourinho and Abramovich was that each had such different expectations around how things should be done by the other.

What seems to happen when our expectations are thwarted is that they take on a disproportionate significance. So we lose sight of the positives and can only see failure.

Alexander Pope once said:
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed''

A few days ago I would probably have thought this a useful thought to apply to my fanship of The Foxes. Of course, now my expectations have been exceeded by yesterday's score, I am delighted.

Like Edward De Bono says:
"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

And we have expectations about most things, often without even realising.

Take for example my experience of a few minutes ago.

As I started preparing to write this post, undertaking painstaking, detailed research, leaving no stone unturned to ensure my readers get the best possible product, I decided to Google the word "expectations"

I was unaware of any expectations around what I might find.

But I must have had. Otherwise why would I have been surprised when I looked at the first site to come up.

"That's not what I expected!" I thought.