Tranmere Rovers up for sale ... on eBay

The chairman of Tranmere Rovers football club said he was shocked to discover his team for sale on the internet auction site eBay.

Earlier this year chairman Peter Johnson appointed US firm Dornoch Capital to broker a sale for his shares in the  League One club.

But this week he was shocked to find that - after an unsuccessful search for a US investoer - the club had been listed on eBay for $10million.

A statement on the official club website said: "Mr Johnson was very disappointed to discover that Dornoch Capital had chosen ebay.com as a route to find a potential buyer and would not have given permission for them to do so had he been asked."

He has now instructed them to remove the ebay listing immediately, and we agree ... no-one is going to pay $10million for Tranmere Rovers are they?