What happened with the failed cryptocurrency bid for Bradford City? The Athletic has been finding out. WAGMI United is a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO), a group governed by computer coding — usually in the form of crypto tokens. Anyone who holds these tokens can vote on matters related to the DAO. The decisions are carried out by automated contracts. They want to buy a club in League One or League Two, the third and fourth levels of the English football pyramid, and take them to the Premier League. That, believe it or not, is the straightforward bit. They intend to do this by creating club-related NFTs — characters, kits, pictures, videos and so on — that they can sell to the “global community” of crypto traders and NFT enthusiasts. Their NFTs will be better than others already out there, though, as they claim they are offering fans a chance to effectively own a piece of the team. Remember the web-based Ebbsfleet United MyfFotballClub fiasco? After five years th
Football fans around the country are uniting to back three Oldham Athletic fans, including the director of the Oldham Athletic Supporters' Foundation, banned for 'disliking' the team or more specifically controversial owner Abraham Lemsagram: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/oldham-athletic-ban-fans-lemsagam-22527054 Oldham supporters have said they will not be silenced: https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/sport/latics/19798134.oldham-athletic-fans-group-responds-supporters-club-ban/ The club cannot ban fans from away games without a court order.