Such are the mountains of Manchester United's debts since the Glazer takeover that accountants estimate the revenue from their fanbase will need to rise by 5,888,765% over the next two years.
In 1960, after the departures of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants left the massive New York baseball fanbase with only the Yankees, former Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and some powerful rich friends floated the idea of a third major league, the Continental League.
With Henry or Olave, a loss will direct abuse at Petke from the fanbase for letting a great chance at silverware go; a draw or a win will make him look like the smartest guy in the room.
Spooks has a defined fanbase, who watched the BBC series in big numbers from 2002-11, but would it convert into a paying audience at the cinema?
"Most of you probably already know that transvestite creature Lady Gaga is about to release a music video," began one recent missive, purportedly circulated by Miley Cyrus fans, although perhaps created by a third fanbase wishing to discredit both Gaga and Cyrus in one fell swoop.
But what he has done is place the notion of the darknet, and the Tor project, in a new perspective both to the mainstream press and to an enormous fanbase, given his status as one of the most influential artists in electronic music.
The drama, however, has been key to securing the loyalty of the global fanbase Clarkson never sought.
Worst of all, it could fall between two stools – being neither spare and rigorous enough to satisfy McQueen's fanbase nor, perhaps, soupy and sentimental enough to please the multiplex crowd.
After signing to Virgin/EMI last March, they were named on the BBC's Sound Of 2015 list in January, and recent singles Hey and The Hunter both became fixtures on primetime Radio 1. They've used this exposure to build a rabid fanbase that, in Portsmouth tonight, will include not only screaming 18-year-old girls but also their fathers, nodding and declaring Slaves "a proper old-school punk band".
The film has evidently already served the core Christopher Nolan fanbase and is now struggling to engage the broader audiences that embraced Inception and the Batman films.
We can't even win by reuniting a borderline-contemporary boyband with a huge continental fanbase.
