what is the purpose of a football club?

survival, competing, winning?

what is our purpose?

-- Anonymous, May 23, 2001

Answers

football club - to organise a group of men to play football to the highest standard they can, competing in all competitions available to them

football plc - to make money for shareholders who are willing to invest their money in a football club

-- Anonymous, May 23, 2001

Being a focal point for the community?

-- Anonymous, May 23, 2001

The purpose of a football club is to inflict as much collective misery over a lifetime as can be maintained without recourse to suicide.

Maybe that's just NUFC then... :-)

-- Anonymous, May 23, 2001

.......so we are successful after all, Bobby?

-- Anonymous, May 23, 2001