Fit and Proper Persons: The Lies and Fall of Owna FC

by Martin Calladine

Overview

OwnaFC promised fans the chance to buy and run their own football club. Fit and Proper Persons tells the story of the business that was supposed to revolutionise football, the people who lost out when it collapsed and the violent consequences suffered by those who tried to hold OwnaFC to account.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801500470
Publisher:	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	04/01/2022
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Martin Calladine is a sportswriter focused on football reform and sporting ethics. In 2015, he published The Ugly Game: How Football Lost its Magic and What it Could Learn from the NFL. James Cave is a journalist and leading campaigner on lower- and non-league football issues. A former press officer for Southport FC, he runs the Against League 3 campaign and is editor of On The Spot News, a local news publisher in the North West of England.

Table of Contents

1 Vive la révolution 9

2 A football-shaped hole 22

3 A childhood dream 38

4 Beware of geeks bearing gifts 54

5 Stuart Harvey AFC 67

6 All to be revealed 81

7 The owners of last resort 99

8 Aggressive, intimidating, abusive or unprofessional 115

9 Another brick in the arch 130

10 The bones in my face 147

11 Daniel 157

12 The unfailable test 172

13 Fail again. Fail bigger 195

14 The Wider Interests of Football Limited 211

15 More money than sense 226

16 A modern-day Michael Knighton 237

17 He's taken us as far as he can 246

18 Not a single fuck is given 269

19 We will come back better prepared 283

20 Be more than a fan 295

21 I regret to inform you 315

22 That's what football is all about 331

Endnotes 345