YOU'VE WASTED HOURS playing Championship Manager,and now, if you live in Mexico, you can act out the game in real life.

Murciélagos FC is a second-division Mexican soccer team managed by its fans. The club doesn’t have a staff coach or trainer, so when decisions about the team need to be made, options are posted on the club’s comprehensive and social-media-heavy website for fans to choose between.

SMS messages and web polls allow fans to influence the team’s line-up, suggest substitutions, listen in to the dressing-room team talks at half-time, and vote for the best player in each game, who then receives a bonus.

This type of fan power is revolutionary, enabling the crowd to play an actual administrative role. Murciélagos FC is calling its method “DT-electronico” or “electronic technical director”.

Beats blaming the manager.

See murcielagosfc.com