Supporters Trust to Buy Scottish Club

Interesting.

I sometimes wonder if the same mistake is made when Supporters' Trust takeovers are undertaken as when Clubs are taken over by investors.

The issue never seems to be the football. Who is in control, how many shares they have, who will be chairman, financing, loans, revenue, naming rights, sponsorship, a new stadium, all the usual stuff.

In their eagerness to get stuck in to all the above, the basic issue is never even raised, let alone addressed.

What is a football club, and how does it work?

This seems especially pertinent at Clubs which have been run so badly that it is difficult even to grasp what their problems actually ARE.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of what the Club, and its football, will do for the shareholders, the community, all the businesses which will jump on board.

But not what it will do for itself. How it will do it. And why.

Clubs always seem to start at the end - how success will produce more revenue and more revenue will produce more success - without ever arriving at the beginning.

How do we learn?

Playing football for the people who are interested. Finding players and a ground that the Club can afford.

And SEEING HOW THINGS GO. The football is the key to the whole thing, but it somehow gets left out. Success is decided on up front, as if the other Clubs somehow were stupid and DECIDED to fail.

These days, the game is only about what you want. Not what you can do. It's about how vain you are, not how much you've achieved. It's about spending, rather than earning.

Still, I'm sure adding the word 'Meerkats' to the Club's name will make all the difference.