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Ex-Player Pat Stanton Creates Fan Campaign To Buy Scottish Side Hibernian FC

Scottish Championship side Hibernian has "welcomed the creation of a fans campaign led by club legend Pat Stanton to buy the Edinburgh club," according to the BBC. Club CEO Leeann Dempster said, "We look forward to having a positive conversation with BuyHibs so that we can understand their proposals." BuyHibs "is backed by the Erin Trust, Hibernian Supporters Association, the Formers Players Association and Hibernian Shareholders Association." Stanton has called on Owner Tom Farmer "to name his price for the club." Dempster: "It is well known that the board has been consulting widely with supporters and is fine tuning its strategy for the future of the club. This will be presented to the existing 1,700 shareholders of the club at the forthcoming AGM and shared with supporters and the wider Hibernian family." The group "was formed following supporters groups meetings and a survey of more than 4,000 fans carried out by Supporters Direct Scotland." Stanton: "We are in the fortunate position that the motivation for BuyHibs has not been generated from an emergency situation through a threatened insolvency like supporters of other clubs have been faced with" (BBC, 11/11).

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