Members of a fan website have ponied up £700,000 to buy the English minor league soccer team Ebbsfleet United. Fan takeovers aren’t unheard of in England; what’s new here is that fan message board chatter will now supposedly converted into actual coaching decisions. “Every MyFootballClub member will have an equal say in team selection, player [...]
Even while on occasion contributing to it, I’ve been a little dubious of the Jamie-Dimon-steers-JPMorgan-safely-through-the-mortgage-debacle story line that has been emerging in recent weeks. I mean, there have got to be lots more mortgage-related losses coming at every big bank, right? Even the Great Dimon can’t avert that. But on the subway this morning I [...]
