FC United Thread

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Is that the building that is next to Moston library ??
I used to spend many a Saturday morning at Moston library with all 3 of my daughters, helping them choose
books and helping them learn to read.

Yes. It’s above the library I think

 

[manclad]

Yes. It’s above the library I think

Cheers Phil.
I was going to say that my girls used to go to Brownies there, but then realised that it was the Methodist Church further up Moston Lane that was used by The Brownies.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Why is this fucking vanity farce for pathetic cunts still in existence, when it is just a massive drain on a drain on public finances ?

Whoever sanctioned/ approved it should be in prison.

 

[petrusha]

I don't know how Manchester City Council can justify the money spent (wasted) on the mini-Rags. I'd love to know the full SP. It's what investigative journalists used to be for.

I've written this on here before, but it's something I was told around 15 years ago, at the time when FC were in full 'nauseating and entitled badgering of the Council' mode with regard to help for their own stadium. The source was someone in an important role in the Council apparatus.

MCC has always been rather sore that Manchester United bears the city's name and has become an institution with huge worldwide fame, but the location of the ground limits the Council's benefit from that. It was hoped in the 1990s with the construction of the Commonwealth Stadium (previously mooted as a potential Olympic or national stadium) that they could build an 80,000 facility and attract the real MUFC to use it at least some of the time, but that didn't work out.

Unfortunately, some within MCC saw FC as a possible way to derive more benefit from a connection with a United theme. It beggars belief to me that these tinpot tribute-act shitehawks have been given the level of support they've received, but that's the original reasoning from within MCC.

I believe that Pat Karney was a prime mover in the idea of assisting the vanity project, with heady aspirations back then that they could get into the Football League and maybe even reach the Championship. Comically delusional, but it was believed. The execrable David Conn deserves a mention, too, for his patronage did a great deal to legitimise these grasping and inconsequential nobodies.

 

[ancoats]

I've written this on here before, but it's something I was told around 15 years ago, at the time when FC were in full 'nauseating and entitled badgering of the Council' mode with regard to help for their own stadium. The source was someone in an important role in the Council apparatus.

MCC has always been rather sore that Manchester United bears the city's name and has become an institution with huge worldwide fame, but the location of the ground limits the Council's benefit from that. It was hoped in the 1990s with the construction of the Commonwealth Stadium (previously mooted as a potential Olympic or national stadium) that they could build an 80,000 facility and attract the real MUFC to use it at least some of the time, but that didn't work out.

Unfortunately, some within MCC saw FC as a possible way to derive more benefit from a connection with a United theme. It beggars belief to me that these tinpot tribute-act shitehawks have been given the level of support they've received, but that's the original reasoning from within MCC.

I believe that Pat Karney was a prime mover in the idea of assisting the vanity project, with heady aspirations back then that they could get into the Football League and maybe even reach the Championship. Comically delusional, but it was believed. The execrable David Conn deserves a mention, too, for his patronage did a great deal to legitimise these grasping and inconsequential nobodies.

Pat Karney went against the people and his own people

Coun Pat Karney, speaking on behalf of the Labour group in Manchester, said: “I have spoken to Henry to tell him that this is the wrong decision both for himself and for the people of Moston.

“The council has gone out of its way to listen to all the views on both sides of the debate on FC United.

Council rebel leaves Labour over FC United ‘s new stadium in Moston

A veteran councillor is quitting the Labour party after accusing it of treating FC United’s neighbours ‘like dirt’ in a row over the new stadium. Henry Cooper says the council’s decision to back plans for a 5,000 capacity stadium in Moston is ‘ridiculous’.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Blue Mist]

The Salford Rag Socks are getting 85k because their fa cup game against us is being televised.
Imagine if it had been the Moston Rag Socks ! The directors would be spending it already, Christmas in Barbados with 5k left over to restock the directors bar.
I bet they are gutted they are so shit.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

The Salford Rag Socks are getting 85k because their fa cup game against us is being televised.
Imagine if it had been the Moston Rag Socks ! The directors would be spending it already, Christmas in Barbados with 5k left over to restock the directors bar.
I bet they are gutted they are so shit.

I imagine most decent overburdened Mcr ratepayers are fucking sick of them too.

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

The Salford Rag Socks are getting 85k because their fa cup game against us is being televised.
Imagine if it had been the Moston Rag Socks ! The directors would be spending it already, Christmas in Barbados with 5k left over to restock the directors bar.
I bet they are gutted they are so shit.

yep 85 k to the rag sox would put a few more AUDI's on the estates of Nth Manchester...

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Cheers Phil.
I was going to say that my girls used to go to Brownies there, but then realised that it was the Methodist Church further up Moston Lane that was used by The Brownies.

My 2 went to Brownies there too but didn’t last long!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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The Salford Rag Socks are getting 85k because their fa cup game against us is being televised.
Imagine if it had been the Moston Rag Socks ! The directors would be spending it already, Christmas in Barbados with 5k left over to restock the directors bar.
I bet they are gutted they are so shit.

firstly they would put out a statement and a banner up at the next game stating their intentions of not appearing live on TV out of principle.
The media lap it up with article after article describing the Bucketeers as still having a soul and how football would be much better if all clubs followed this club that is a bastion of tradition. And then after all the posturing, shouting and finger pointing, they will back down - but making it clear they are not happy - and take the cash.