Reverend And The Makers frontman Jon McClure has been introduced as the brand new membership chairman of Sheffield FC.
McClure and performing arts agency IAV Holdings Restricted have purchased a stake within the membership, whose males’s aspect at the moment play within the ninth tier of English soccer, with hopes of climbing the non-league soccer system.
Sheffield FC is the world’s oldest soccer membership after having been based in 1857.
McClure stated: “Sheffield is the place fashionable soccer was born. This membership carries the origin story of the world’s biggest recreation, and with that comes a good quantity of duty.
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“We’re stepping ahead not simply to run a soccer membership, however to take cost of a world cultural establishment rooted in South Yorkshire.”
He added: “Our ambition is to breathe life into this membership in a means that respects its heritage. However on the identical time, we’d prefer to construct one thing future-facing and inclusive. We wish to create one thing that everybody on this area, and soccer followers in every single place, can get behind.
“Sheffield FC belongs to its group, nevertheless it additionally belongs to the story of world soccer. It’s time that story was instructed correctly.”
McClure stated he had initially tried to purchase Sheffield FC in 2018, alongside his supervisor David Bianchi, co-founder of Numerous Artists Administration, who helped launch the careers of Charli XCX and La Roux.
Sheffield FC have performed their video games outdoors of their residence metropolis, in Dronfield in North East Derbyshire, since 2001.
The membership has made a number of makes an attempt to return to Sheffield over the previous twenty years, with the most recent plans unveiled in November 2023 as a three way partnership with Sheffield Eagles Rugby League Membership.
McClure stated they had been “a bunch of locations” for a brand new stadium, with a transfer to the previous Sheffield Transport Sports activities Membership website at Meadowhead remaining a risk.
He added: “Everyone has an ambition to return the membership to town, inside town limits, as a result of clearly the sport of soccer, cherished by billions world wide, is successfully being performed from a B&Q automotive park. We want to return it to town.”
Elsewhere, Reverend And The Makers not too long ago carried out at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Membership as a part of this 12 months’s Impartial Venue Week.
The occasion celebrates and helps help the dwell music areas throughout the UK, and has been working since 2013. For this 12 months’s version, 236 independently-owned venues participated – a ten per cent enhance on 2025 – and over 700 occasions passed off.
In the meantime, McClure beforehand revealed to NME that he had been recognized with ADHD.
He stated on the time: “I perceive myself higher. Once I was 24, I believed I knew every little thing and I’d gob off to NME about every little thing. I knew fuck all. Trying again, to once I was kicking off at individuals, I used to be most likely fairly poorly for many of my profession. I wasn’t effectively mentally. In the event you add medicine into that, plus my greatest mate [Alex Turner] being within the largest band on the earth and feeling jealous of him, it was a nasty combine.”
He added: “Now I perceive myself, ADHD is sort of a particular energy I’ve not identified methods to harness earlier than. I’m 42 and it’s like I used to be infantilised till now. In my case, earlier than being recognized, ADHD left me taking lots longer to develop up and be accountable. Now I’ve, I really feel I can do something.”
