Is This The Richest Club In Non-League?

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2 ай бұрын

Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack bought Bedford FC in 2021. They became the first Bitcoin football club and recently secured a huge 4.5 million dollars worth of investment from the Winklevoss twins.
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@alfiegallagher1651 2 ай бұрын

I think it would be really cool if you followed the process of someone creating a non-league football club and documenting it all, would make a really cool series, especially as someone currently creating the Saturday team for their university

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

That's cool pal! Check out our Assington video, that gives a good insight into how they set their club up.

@awordabout...3061 2 ай бұрын

I ran the line for these guys in the Spartan last year - it's surreal having all this camera and sound equipment around you while you're officiating a game with maybe a hundred people in attendance. Definitely great players - I think they won 6-0 in the end - but as a Diamonds fan I do wonder what's going to happen if/when the money runs out. Enjoy the ride!

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

Yeah they're a good side! Be good to follow the journey.

@terencesmith1301 Ай бұрын

very interesting videos , just came across this channel randomly. I'm surprised you don't have way more subscribers with this interesting content. Keep it up 👍

@LocationFootball Ай бұрын

Much appreciated pal. Glad you enjoyed it. We're growing every day which is great hopefully the subscribers continue to as well 👍

@jonlinin9682 2 ай бұрын

Never trust sugar daddies. It will end in tears and when they get bored or broke there will be no solid business model to fall back on. Seen it all before - Gretna, Rushden & Diamonds etc

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

It'll be an interesting club to follow. The infrastructure isn't reliant on the bitcoin money. It's sustainable without, hopefully it all goes to plan. 👍

@jonlinin9682 Ай бұрын

@@LocationFootball not talking about infrastructure (although obviously important), I,'m talking about a business model that will continue to pay wages and expenses based on footfall not on handouts.

@Aronphoto800 2 ай бұрын

This is a really cool video thanks for making my day 1000 times better

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching pal. We really appreciate it!

@Alternative112 Ай бұрын

Well in Peter mate keep it up 👍👍👍 glad you're doing fantasticly

@LocationFootball Ай бұрын

It's something very unique and interesting 🙌

@mowvu5380 Ай бұрын

these guys will do well. as long as they don't get greedy

@blakenewton9536 2 ай бұрын

Hi I’m a fan of kidlington fc and we have a oxford senior cup final next week would love for you to come down and film a video for it

@TheFort87 2 ай бұрын

“Us using bitcoin gets us away from all of the inflation” “So, we just tie the prices in £, then convert it to bitcoin”

@mowvu5380 Ай бұрын

ahaha don't let their stupidity put you off crypto. if you're smart you can do well

@AshNott 2 ай бұрын

These lot play in my locals harpendens league absolutely battered us 5-0 these lot are pure class

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

They've got a very good squad tbf. Hope you had a good season!

@AshNott 2 ай бұрын

@@LocationFootball Ofc fella got the play off semi finals next Wednesday if your intretsef

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

@@AshNott tempted!! What step is that pal? Congrats 🙌

@AshNott 2 ай бұрын

@@LocationFootball Step 5 Harpenden Town fc got Leverstock Green next Wednesday 7:45 looking good for a spot in the play off final same league as Real Beford

@baseddepartment1324 2 ай бұрын

Bedford has a club. Bedford Town. Support your actual local, not these billionaire chancers who will dip as soon as they get bored.

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

There are two Bedford teams literally next door to each other

@benjones4974 2 ай бұрын

Peter McKormack is from Bedford and is not a billionaire 🤦‍♂

@AgecaseV 2 ай бұрын

Man City with their 115 charges are the richest non league club in the

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

👏

@samsativa245 2 ай бұрын

My worst nightmare some rich guy who likes Franchise American Football comes along, buys my club and changes its name because 'it's funny and sounds like a 5-a-side team name' what a bellend

@inp1509 Ай бұрын

buys my club 🤡

@samsativa245 Ай бұрын

@@inp1509 Good job it was a billionaire who grew up in MY town itself who bought MY club, and not some franchise yank - He's called Sir Peter Ogden. Up The Dale

@inp1509 Ай бұрын

@@samsativa245 That's great, you sound deluded mate👍

@garymckeon5410 Ай бұрын

interesting idea to hold and spend the cash hoping bitcoin keeps rising , but if thats your model going forward why pay the players in bitcoin ? im guessing there is something i am not understanding but surely paying the wages in bitcoin which he admits is 75% plus you could end up doing the very opposite and spending the bitcoin and ending up with cash ....

@LocationFootball Ай бұрын

Ideally he said he wouldn't want to pay them in bitcoin cos he wants to keep that. However if a player wanted to they could. I found the whole thing fascinating. It'll be an interesting team to keep an eye on. The club is sustainable without bitcoin which is good

@Mattitude-29 2 ай бұрын

I have to visit them one day! Love their branding

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

It was a great matchday experience 👍

@billmiller2368 2 ай бұрын

It's always make me laught when finance bros think they're anarchists and evoke St Pauli. Delusional.

@WhatBitcoinDid 2 ай бұрын

I didn't evoke St Pauli beyond the skull and crossbones. They're socialists which we definitely aren't.

@naomsach 2 ай бұрын

Indeed. Skull and Bones are nothing to do with "anarchy". George Bush, John Kerry, 2 of the more famous members of the secret society that is Skull and Bones!!

@TheFort87 2 ай бұрын

Anarcho-capitalists are all about the capitalism without much thought to the anarchy part except “I want to do whatever I want”

@SuperJNG18 2 ай бұрын

I'm a St. Pauli fan (albeit not from Germany) and I feel confident in saying crypto bros and St. Pauli fans are maybe the most disparate groups of people imaginable. They'd eat the crypto bros alive.

@BristolCity1992 17 күн бұрын

I was dying inside when he was banging on about anarchism. Guy doesn't have a clue and what @thefort87 said is true.

@pixelezio 2 ай бұрын

Best of luck to them, branding and tunnel is cool

@WhatBitcoinDid 2 ай бұрын

We were inspired by St Pauli, they had the original idea in fairness.

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

It's pretty cool isn't it!

@Buffalo31 2 ай бұрын

I'm confused, the owner said he needed 4.5 million investment as it's harder in higher leagues and then the manger said that the money won't be spend within the club's budget😮 I think they need to have a meeting.

@BrassToff 9 күн бұрын

I gather that Bedford Town told him to take a hike. Rightly so.

@LocationFootball 4 күн бұрын

I think it was a polite no lol

@lufferwlrd1055 2 ай бұрын

i live i bedford i heard of the team but i never knew this that is very rich

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

Huge investment! Which will benefit the community of Bedford as well 👍

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@YourFavouritePigeon 2 ай бұрын

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@SuperJNG18 2 ай бұрын

FC St Pauli too

@swanseawales1979 2 ай бұрын

Hope Real Bedford become the El Salvador of football

@EvilOrso 2 ай бұрын

Well for their finances I certaintly hope not

@SuperJNG18 2 ай бұрын

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@zsertymiop7136 2 ай бұрын

Ahhh so a plastic club setting up next to the real Bedford Town FC which is literally next door.

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

He tried to buy the club next door. The club already existed before he took over. He changed the name etc

@Buffalo31 2 ай бұрын

@@LocationFootballwhat was the club called before?

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

@@Buffalo31 Bedford United 👍

@danielkarmy4893 2 ай бұрын

The Glenn Tamplin of the lower leagues - no, that isn't a compliment.

@WhatBitcoinDid 2 ай бұрын

If you know our club and what Tamplin did at Billericay then there is no comparison. Tamplin wanted the Premier League but the club was run unsustainably and it was generally chaotic. We are a well run club, come down and see it.

@RTFCFanClub 2 ай бұрын

Unfair on the other teams in their league, a whole season wasted because some bitcoin blokes have decided to make a team in Bedford, Royston women’s would be trying to win their league this year Real Bedford, with over triple the funding of the other teams, cruised the league.

@silverbaby20202 2 ай бұрын

The men didnt cruise the league. They were in a tight title race, you must remember there’s fantastic management and player work rate - they train midweek

@WhatBitcoinDid 2 ай бұрын

Our club operates sustainably and is profitable. All wages comes from the business side and none of the investment will be used for wages. If you don't like it then make Royston a better business or move to Cuba, communism is thriving there.

@danielkarmy4893 2 ай бұрын

@@WhatBitcoinDid Fair play for actually addressing people's comments - and let's get this out of the way straight away, it's not 'haters' having a pop for no reason, people who actually care about football are entitled to be concerned about this - but that last bit of your reply sums up exactly why people should be concerned. It's the arrogance, the 'I'm doing what I want and I couldn't care less about anyone else, this is all about me' attitude. You say in the video that people are jealous, because if you came to their club and did the same thing, they'd be very happy with it (words to that effect). Let me give an example: here at Gosport we have a great club with a thriving community, the club's at the heart of the town, it has its own identity, our town's identity is intertwined with the club's. Now, if you came along with your money (sorry, Bitcoin) and said 'right, I'm going to change the club completely, we'll have a skull and crossbones on the badge 'cos I've been to the States and think that's cool, fuck the council, fuck the fans, fuck everyone who doesn't agree with me, I don't care, this is my club now and we're going to the Premier League' - you think you'd be welcomed with open arms, yeah? Money, and bitcoin, can buy a lot of things in this world - but class is not one of them.

@WhatBitcoinDid 2 ай бұрын

@@danielkarmy4893 Football clubs compete in two areas, as a business and on the pitch. The business comes first and supports what is possible on the pitch and none of the investment has or will go to wages, because that is an unsustainable model. People complain about the money going into the club but it all comes from a sustainable operations. What is the issue with this? What is the complaint? Is it unfair that we run a strong business behind the teams? That is my point, football is a business, therefore it is capitalism, if you don't like capitalism move to Cuba and try communism. If you agree with capitalism, then stop complaining and build a better business behind your club. Also, when they mention the money, they don't mention the investment in youth and ladies football, the investment in the town, the support we give to other clubs, the job creation, the hardship fund for under privileged kids. They just complain because they can't beat us. This is why I call them communists. I bought a club with no fans or identity and changed it to build a club. If I had bought a club with a history and identity that people cared about, for example, Gosport, I wouldn't have changed it. Nobody cared about Bedford FC so I had the luxury of doing that. I never said fuck the fans or fuck the club and fuck anyone who doesn't agree with me, you just made that up. I did say fuck the Council and various other bureaucratic institutions that we have to deal with, why? Because fuck them, they always interfere and make things more difficult.

@WhatBitcoinDid 2 ай бұрын

@@danielkarmy4893 but I never said those things did I?

@philiplui8790 2 ай бұрын

Unbelievable

@geoms6263 24 күн бұрын

Can i donate some ETH for the club?

@LocationFootball 24 күн бұрын

You could big merch with your ETH I'm sure

@charliereza5544 2 ай бұрын

I’m based in Bedfordshire so would consider coming down. Just a heads up as brand means a lot you but your badge looks a bit like Wagner PMCs badge. Probably not the best look

@LocationFootball Ай бұрын

Go check it out if it's local 👍

@johnjoanandlovu5989 2 ай бұрын

Orlando Pirates FC in South Africa has had a cross-bone badge since the 1930s. What are you talking "you're surprised no one ever thought of it"?😂

@LocationFootball 2 ай бұрын

I think he was referring to clubs in England using it. Hope you enjoyed the vid 👍

@SuperJNG18 2 ай бұрын

I'd rather get liquidated and relocated to Milton Keynes than be part of a football club run by crypto bros, but your average crypto bro is only debatably more corrupt and selfish than a typical team owner, so I suppose I can't shake my fists too much. This is just stupider. I feel sorry for the players if that's how they're getting paid.