PlanetCricket.net take over (FM2008)

[Skater]

This story will be using Football Manager 2008 for PC and relevant corrections and updates.

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PlanetCricket.net are chosen to take over a football league club

The Football Association, the governing body of football in England, has selected the community of the PlanetCricket.net website to take over a league club with the ambition of guiding it into one of the best and most well known teams in the world.

Many clubs entered the Supporters Takeover scheme, which looked carefully for a group of football supporters to become shareholders in a league team. Brian Barwick, the chief executive of The FA, announced the results of a meeting of the selection committee today, saying that PlanetCricket.net were 'one of many' to apply for the scheme but were 'the group with the biggest potential to maintain the health of football in England'.

"PlanetCricket.net laid out very clear plans as to their ambitions for their club if they were selected. All of the selection committee were very impressed with their presentation and in the end they all voted unamamously for them." he explained.

PlanetCricket.net launched in its current form in 2001, as a forum for the discussion of cricket, but have expanded to other topics in recent years, including football.

It will be left to the members of the website to choose which club they take over, with a free reign over any team in the Barclays Premeir League or Coca-Cola Football League.

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A message to the PlanetCricket.net community

Congratulations! Our bid to be the selected group for the Supporters Takeover scheme is successful, and we must now decide which club we are going to become shareholders of.

There is a poll in which you can vote in at the top of this page. It will expire in just a few days, so hurry up! All you have to do is pick the league in which the club we should take over is in, the Barclays Premier League or the Coca-Cola Football League.

After the league has been decided, there will be another poll to decide which club in that league we will take over.

Lee Payne,
Spokesperson

 

[w3lshrugby]

Nice idea, following on from the myfootballclub.com thing

 

[Skater]

Nice idea, following on from the myfootballclub.com thing

Yes, I based it on MyFootballClub. To avoid making it sound like every member had payed ?35 though, I evolved the idea into an FA hunt.

 

[Pakistani Army]

Very nice idea here Lee. Best of luck.

 

[Manly]

keep voting the championship guys...then ipswich...

 

[Skater]

Very nice idea here Lee. Best of luck.

Thanks very much, I hope it goes well.

keep voting the championship guys...then ipswich...

If ever a team needed taking over, it is Ipswich. Bad team, bad ground, bad name, bad reputation. I think even the PlanetCricket.net community would not be able to turn them around.

 

[Highlander999]

Nice idea. Take over the Prmiership and kick Man U and Chelsea ass

 

[treva]

Championship for sure! And Lee shut up. Ipswich are the best team in the world!

(The only reason I am saying this is because my team who will not be named were beaten quite badly by them recentley)

 

[Steve Moore]

Lg. 2, let's be realistic gents

 

[GrayNicolls]

Lg. 2, let's be realistic gents

Realistically, a PlanetCricket team would be a non-league team at best.

 

[Steve Moore]

oh, I just thought we were all picking the team, tactics & transfers

 

[treva]

oh, I just thought we were all picking the team, tactics & transfers

Yeh we are doing. It's connor who's got no idea. Well I guess it's that seeing as it's based on 'MyFootballClub.com'

 

[Manly]

Championship for sure! And Lee shut up. Ipswich are the best team in the world!

(The only reason I am saying this is because my team who will not be named were beaten quite badly by them recentley)

u a bristol city fan then?

 

[Animator!]

Bluesquare Prem \o/

 

[treva]

u a bristol city fan then?

Correct! Still we had to lose some time and I'm sure after two tough losses (The other vs Charlton 1-0, they scored last min) we will be back to winning ways soon.

Anyway back on topic!