FC United thread

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
First season syndrome as with any new stadium. More 'curious' home fans, more away fans ticking it off their list. No big surprise and anyone thinking crowds would have gone up this season (unless the club were really going for it at the top) are deluded.

Should be fun and games tomorrow as the Moston Rag Socks v The Crass of 92.
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hahahaha the no win no lose game and a chance to jumpship
 
petrusha said:
This is anecdotal so don't treat it as gospel, but I knew someone who had good knowledge of the Council's dealings with FC United over the stadium. I was told that the club took the attitude that it was a community club and the Council thus had a duty to give it support (a position some in MCC also seem to have been willing to adopt). There seemed no genuine recognition (beyond paying lip service and ) of the fact that we were in a time of austerity and budgets were being cut across the board, so maybe FC should show why the community would be better off if MCC grant funding, a council loan and a stadium site were to be diverted their way rather than spent on other things. If true, that kind of attitude usually comes from the top. I can well imagine that he genuinely believed it, but I don't believe that MCC asked all the questions they should have done.
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I can tell you that anecdote is spot on, as I was present at many of the negotiations. It was very much sold as a community club, in the same sense that Moston Juniors (the junior club who had just been granted Ronald Johnson to re-develop/use by the council, but were then shafted by the very same MCC) were to become the linked junior base of FCUM. The facilities at the new ground were also to be for community use at cheap(er) rates.

That never happened. Me and my dad saw the writing on the wall for Moston Juniors and jumped ship. A few years of PR style appeasement from FCUM was eventually replaced with al almost autocratic view that this is our ground and we'll do what we want. For example they charge about £90 for their astro - hardly subsidised, hardly ever open to the local community due to first team usage and vastly overpriced compared to other local facilities (not to mention St. Matthews High School had just built an astro at the same time, which is much cheaper by the way.) Most of the main supporters for the project at Moston Juniors have now realised they've been shafted and the illusions of community grandeur FC sold at the time was just a huge myth. Glad that we got out when we did.
 
You've got to love the principles of the FCUM fans in the thread on their forum about the Hull v Utd game

" there's quiet a few fc fan's at the game tonight so that's why it's been sung these fan's used to be part of fc but not any more with all the crap that's ongoing can you blame them "

"Pity so many have gone back to big United now that there are signs we're starting to move back in the right direction, although there must have been a hell of a lot of ex FC Fans there by the noise?"
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Mr Burns gif required :)
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bakerdave76 said:
Fc moston new song can any one do a second verse about there hopes and debts?!
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No idea what the tune to that ditty is but here goes: (and bare in mind it is 4.50am here....)

We now run our own club and have our own say
Run by our own board, whose mates they do pay
They pass round the buckets, the cash we do throw
But the board have fucked up and left no cash flow
 
Poor bitter buggars, bet they go to work believing they're the only REAL football fans in the office as they support a proper team.

There'll spend most of their life in a bittered world full of hate and spite, when in truth they're just a bunch of smacked arsed petulant pricks who don't have what it takes to carry on following their team in controversy. They are the furthest away from the word "die hard" and no one but themselves take them seriously, a clown of a club and a eternal embarrassment to mufc, you couldn't make it up....hahaha.

Worst kind.....sad!!
 
Only thing worse than scum is disloyal scum.

The ones that abandoned their team, went to fc and are now going back because they're not happy probably reckon they're the best fans in the world when they're literally the worst.
 
ooh going going going losing to salford city at home hahhahahaha

hahahahahahahaha salford city are higher than stockport county the dark days are feeling a little better now
 
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