Do you read the Daily Telegraph? If you happen to, then the Sports' Section today devotes a page and a half to Hashtag United, a team dreamt up by Spencer Owen who had hooked nearly 4 million online views of his team performing on You Tube.
Ed Balls on Strictly got only 79,000 viewers. To find out what this is all about tap in Spencer and FC into the You Tube search bar and see what he and his mates are up to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUykdNO-YkA
I have written previously about football clubs "employing" computer nerds to play on their club's behalf in inter club computer football competitions, so nothing surprises me when I heard of United London FC and club that has formed on the Hackney Marshes and plays in the Essex Alliance Premier League where the members of the club, that is those who subscribe to join the club on the internet, PICK THE TEAM!
Players statistics, heat maps of games and all the paraphernalia of computer based assessment is being put to good use in order to give the punters the opportunity fo picking out the best players
Based on the success of Jamie Vardy (remember him?), the brains behind the club is Mark North reckoned it would be a good idea to encourage anyone to come along to trials and get voted onto the team. His squad is 33 strong and will give players a chance of being picked out as they play each week.
The Football Careers Centre (yes there is one) aims to pluck stars from relative obscurity and give them a chance of making it.
Have a look at the video from Sky.
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