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Real Bedford FC - Bitcoin ran football club
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Craig Wright is a ****PragueAddick said:Uh-oh... Nick Harris is a pretty sharp cookie...
He's suing people who say that he's not satoshi nakamoto. He was one of the cypherpunks who posted on the same message board as satoshi and was one of the first bitcoin holders. Nobody can prove that he isn't (because nobody knows who he is). It obviously isn't good to not pay, but let's be clear on what the case is concerning.0 -
Club is posting accounts each month to be transparent https://www.realbedford.com/income-report-january22It’s nice to see a decent amount already going to grassroots football in the area0
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Buying the league is going pretty well for them at the moment (this is the 10th tier mind you)
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On the verge of back to back promotions to the 8th tier and a ridiculous investment into a 9th tier club. 1031 home fans at their last game which is very respectable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv27e9qn4qno
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The dumb names they give to non-league clubs that get bought by rich foreigners, "Real Bedford" WTF?
What's next Locomotiv Worksop? Sporting Club de Biggleswade?10 -
The club is actually majority owned by someone from Bedford, rather than a rich foreigner, but the name is awful. Think the idea is to make it appeal to a wider audience like Inter Miami, but it's not a great look.CAFCTrev said:The dumb names they give to non-league clubs that get bought by rich foreigners, "Real Bedford" WTF?
What's next Locomotiv Worksop? Sporting Club de Biggleswade?0 -
Club owner had to explain football to billionaires
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce43l3n449vo
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So will they be in the same division as Bedford Town next season?0
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Tbf if they are getting 1,000+ crowds at that level then there’s clearly a base to build upon0
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Heard this 'non-league club with grand ambitions to get to the football league' story a hundred times. Rushden, Hornchurch, Billericay, Fylde, Darlington etc.
It rarely works because either the owner gets bored or they realise they'll never have the fanbase to compete once they get to a certain level.1 - Sponsored links:
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They're currently top of the Southern League: Division Onese9addick said:So will they be in the same division as Bedford Town next season?
I imagine it'll all end in tears, it usually does for a Non-League team that gets a sudden windfall
But notice the Crypto guys are the Winklevoss Twins, who apart from having a funny Surname, are the guys who successfully sued Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook in 2004 (which turned into the film: The Social Network).
Maybe it will work out, so long as those two don't get bored, they've been around money / business for long enough... Rather than it being some random bloke, who thought he'd try crypto and happened to get lucky.0 -
Mrs. Brightside said:Can remember us playing Bedford Town in a pre-season friendly at Bedford. Parky was in charge and there was a cake stand a few yards from one of the goals.
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A friend of mine who once played @ Bournemouth ended up going to Rushden whilst in the conference and with them when they got promoted to the football league. He was getting paid an obscene amount of money for that level.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Heard this 'non-league club with grand ambitions to get to the football league' story a hundred times. Rushden, Hornchurch, Billericay, Fylde, Darlington etc.
It rarely works because either the owner gets bored or they realise they'll never have the fanbase to compete once they get to a certain level.
Started well but the setup in the club was all wrong and it quickly turned to shit.0 -
Well it has worked once or twice, possibly Fleetwood Town is the best example? But yeah, how many more have fallen by the wayside once the sugar daddy gets bored or runs out of money.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Heard this 'non-league club with grand ambitions to get to the football league' story a hundred times. Rushden, Hornchurch, Billericay, Fylde, Darlington etc.
It rarely works because either the owner gets bored or they realise they'll never have the fanbase to compete once they get to a certain level.1 -
Yeah back in the day they used to spend ridiculous sums. As a kid i remember they were always a great lower league side to play as on Championship Manager.cafcpolo said:
A friend of mine who once played @ Bournemouth ended up going to Rushden whilst in the conference and with them when they got promoted to the football league. He was getting paid an obscene amount of money for that level.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Heard this 'non-league club with grand ambitions to get to the football league' story a hundred times. Rushden, Hornchurch, Billericay, Fylde, Darlington etc.
It rarely works because either the owner gets bored or they realise they'll never have the fanbase to compete once they get to a certain level.
Started well but the setup in the club was all wrong and it quickly turned to shit.
I think in real life they made it as far as league one but fell back down the leagues almost as quickly as they got there.1 -
I'm not saying it's going to work this time but I'd recommend listening to a podcast with the owner, especially the price of football ones. The main owner of the club is a football fan from Bedford with money so it's not just a case of a randomer coming in and splashing the cash (I appreciate some of the examples listed are similar). He's secured £3m odd from these Billionaires in the 9th tier of English football. If they can go up again, I'd assume there's the chance of more investment from them.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Heard this 'non-league club with grand ambitions to get to the football league' story a hundred times. Rushden, Hornchurch, Billericay, Fylde, Darlington etc.
It rarely works because either the owner gets bored or they realise they'll never have the fanbase to compete once they get to a certain level.
It's in a town of nearly 200,000 people so can sustain a football league club, and as mentioned they had 1000 fans at their last home game.
Now obviously for every Forest Green, there's even more Billericays.
The true challenge will come when they get stuck in a division, whether that be in the 8th tier or 6th tier as interest will start to wane.
For now, they've invested heavily in youth football and women's football (getting promoted so will be a tier above Luton women, Bedfordshire's biggest club). This investment will also go towards building more training facilities for youth in the area.
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