Fan power from the grass roots up did the same on Wimbledon Common.
Instead the club has been driven on by pure fan power.
Hucknall was one of the first big pop stars to ditch the major label, and one of the first to harness fan power through his website.
It remains to be seen if the fan power which limited the movie to just $56m at the US box office will continue to permeate.
Mourinho is the fifth Premier League manager to leave his post this season and none of them, not even Brendan Rodgers, did so as a result of fan power.
Much like YouTube, Vine served as a launchpad for a variety of artists who were plucked from obscurity and catapulted into worldwide fame, and without the fan power of the app might still be stuck in their bedrooms.
Fan power counts in this part of the world - in the absence of trophies or successful teams, Newcastle's phenomenal support is paramount - and managers tend not to last long when the crowd turn against them.
The USS Enterprise has always been propelled by fan power - a letter-writing campaign (the Twitter storm of its time) prompted Paramount to make a third and final season of the original show, which lasted just over two and a half years.
Now he is expected to complete negotiations imminently and return to the club as Benitez's No 2. Fan power could keep Steve Coppell at relegated Reading after he dropped the strongest hint yet he will stay on as manager and try to lead the club back into the Premier League next season.
Prof. Henry Jenkins of the University of Southern California, an enthusiastic champion of fan power, has framed the fight in near-revolutionary terms, writing on his Web site that PotterWar "may have been the first successful movement of fans to challenge the rather blanket copyright assertions of the major media producers".
Perhaps the most heartening example of fan power has taken place not in the Premier League but on the south coast where a group of fans have determinedly battled against the odds to save their club from the ravages wrought by a succession of owners with a range of dubious motivations – very few of them in the best interests of Portsmouth Football Club.
