[spireitematt]

It's a very interesting question. I associate a plastic club with the likes of MK Dons and the Red Bull franchise, clubs which have been created out of thin air or been taken over. All clubs need money and financial injections to help them progress and get through the leagues but it has to be done correctly and that means not putting the club at long-term risk of going out of business. Certain fans of traditional clubs talk about history and that other clubs don't have history well that history comes about from creating it.

If a multi-millionaire or billionaire took over Chesterfield then I would welcome it as long as it didn't become soulless and treated the fans as 'customers'. Owners who buy football clubs are just custodians the club technically belongs to the fans and the towns, cities, and communities. Football without fans is nothing and we've seen it already through this pandemic that the players, clubs, media miss the fans in grounds. Football fans deserve more say in how clubs are run.

Now if I was a millionaire or billionaire (I can dream can't I) I would buy Chesterfield but I would also want the fans to create a consortium and I would sell shares to the consortium and have a democratic process of 1 vote 1 member where fans could vote things like ticket prices, designs of kits and have a say on what they want, it would be a mixture of private ownership and fan ownership.