FANS having a say in how their club is run appears to be in fashion.

At the weekend it was reported how a group of fans had come together at Lincoln City Football Club with a view to buying a controlling interest in the club.

As yet there is no known top sporting club in the country that is owned by the community but that is the way the Wolves are heading with plans for a community trust ownership.

Norman Summers, chairman of Wolves' owners Warrington Sports Holdings Ltd, was asked how the trust would work.

He said: "At the moment we have a rugby club that is effectively owned by a company, and that company has shares.

"The shares are owned by individuals or companies.

"With a trust, those shares would be transferred into the ownership of a trust, which is a particular legal entity that is recognised under law.

"The trust would be run by trustees for the benefit of specific individuals or purposes.

"In this case, the trust would own the shares and the object of the trust would be to run the Rugby League club for the benefit of the town and its people, and run the assets of the Rugby League club in a similar way.

"The trustees would be appointed, we may say, by the council.

"The trustees would generally comprise of a leading politician, a fan, an ordinary member of the Warrington community and a businessman, who ideally would be an accountant or solicitor.

"These people would ensure the trust operated for the benefit of the town.

"No one would earn profit. The trustees might get a small fee but in this way the council would be happy and the people of the town would be happy that we're all putting money into something for the town's benefit."