This is tremendous stuff.

English Football is rotten to the core: full of corrupt Agents and foreign owners of dubious (and that's putting it mildly in some cases) repute milking mug fans for all they can get, and run by self-serving idiots too busy with their noses in the trough to care who's pouring the money in and what's being done with it.

In most other countries in Europe, (at least partial) fan ownership of football clubs is the law. In the UK, however, the fans who've had enough of the over-rated and over-priced circus that the Premier League has become or - in this case - simply refused to pay the debts of an American billionaire have to do it themselves.

I wholeheartedly applaud all of those of have put so much work into the forming and running of FC United of Manchester because they give us a club that we can support AND own. Our club, our rules.

Jon Leigh, Southern, France

Theres only one United !!

Billy mac, Manchester, England

FC United are the future face of football; the Premier League is the penultimate epitomy of football for the greedy and is already in cancerous decline. Whilst other clubs struggle to survive the PL bloats itself with gluttony and despises the hand that feeds it - without realising that without the supporters, TV interest will dwindle and the golden goose will move on. Halifax, Accrington Stanley and many others will only survive long term if they become supporter owned and it is the supporter owned clubs that will gradually turn the game around by taking majority voting rights on the Football League and enforcing a fairer playing field. No agents, no transfer fees salary caps and equitable distribution of all monies amongst supporter owned clubs. The oligarchs may not be trembling just yet, but FC must surely be an itch they cannot ignore. The future is bright, the future is FC United.

NZ Red, Auckland, New Zealand