FC United Thread

[Blue Mist]

Just seen this letter on the Grundian football internet site. Article was about the Club World Cup and also the scums prem ticket prices featured on the Football Daily.

The only thing missing was the plea to bring some cash for the begging buckets. Bunch of charlatans

“A propos your comments about the extortionately high ticket prices at MUFC (yesterday’s Football Daily), this may be the exact moment to refresh the fact that nearly 20 years ago, in May 2005, 6,000 Manchester United supporters walked away from top-flight football and formed FC United of Manchester. Our new club serves as the biggest consistent weekly protest against the Glazers, the debt burden unfairly placed on United, and the extraordinary amount of money that has ruined the top-flight game. It’s been a rollercoaster ride since then, but our ethos of low matchday ticket prices still persists, with tickets at £13 for adults and juniors are £3. Season tickets are priced on a ‘pay what you can afford’ basis. Here’s a wonderful video (there are loads similar out there on YouTube) summarising the club’s reason for existing. We’ve a Christmas home game coming up on 26 December and could really do with the publicity to encourage all the many disaffected ‘Big United’ fans to roll up and try us out” – Jonathan Kendal.

'The debt burden unfairly placed on united'

Says a spokesperson that unfairly placed the debt burden on the residents of Manchester.

They really do not understand that tickets at £13 do not allow them to repay their debts.
Pay what you can afford season tickets are to be admired.... if you model the club around a business model that doesn't rely on a 2 year payment holiday from debt repayment.
Finally 6,000 may have been the start original figure but it's now down to 1,200. The rest have got fed up with the board mis-appropriating funds, lying, having a board made up of violent thugs and being shite.

 

[Mostonisblue]

They’re upping it to £15 a game next year

 

[Platt Lane 59]

They’re upping it to £15 a game next year

Is that a standard price for that level ?
I would imagine it's about average ?
But, as their current league position is just above the relegation places, cannot see them attracting any new fans.
Agree with previous posts that they are now just coffin dodgers...

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

They’re upping it to £15 a game next year

Even if they go down?

 

[Mostonisblue]

Even if they go down?

Yep, some clubs in the league below them are charging £7 or £8 a game, they’ll be charging £15

 

[dickie davies]

Even if they go down?

You could write a song

We're going up
We're going down
We're going u-u-up
We're going down

Fuckems going down with a million pound of debt
A million pound of debt
A million pound of debt

Oh and they dropped into the relegation zone this evening

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Oh and they dropped into the relegation zone this evening

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Has anyone who is on Twatter (I am not) thought about contacting David Conn and forwarding the link to this thread, asking him to read the last 20 (or more if he has the time) pages and ask if he’d care to comment on the rag socks current state and to re-evaluate his chapter on the Bucketeers in his book Greater Than God?

And also ask him why he never exposed the shenanigans when his “new found best friends” were found out for being the charlatans they were, when he built his reputation for being the very journalist to highlight corruption within those running football clubs. Was it because it would make that whole chapter in his book embarrassing and worthless as well as discrediting his whole ethos and ethical stance around the basis of his book?

To put it simply - David Conn was conned by FCUM. But he wouldn’t expose the con because that would let everyone know that David Conn himself, had been conned.

As Suzi Quatro almost sang it, “Con The Conn”

His absolute silence on this topic is a shit stain on his journalistic career.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Has anyone who is on Twatter (I am not) thought about contacting David Conn and forwarding the link to this thread, asking him to read the last 20 (or more if he has the time) pages and ask if he’d care to comment on the rag socks current state and to re-evaluate his chapter on the Bucketeers in his book Greater Than God?

And also ask him why he never exposed the shenanigans when his “new found best friends” were found out for being the charlatans they were, when he built his reputation for being the very journalist to highlight corruption within those running football clubs. Was it because it would make that whole chapter in his book embarrassing and worthless as well as discrediting his whole ethos and ethical stance around the whole basis of his book?

To put it simply - David Conn was conned. But wouldn’t expose the con because that would let everyone know that David Conn had been conned.

As Suzi Quatro almost sang it, “Con The Conn”

But was he conned?

Was it not a case of both (and I'll use the term loosely) the club and him using eachother complicity as a potential promotional moneymaker?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

But was he conned?

Was it not a case of both (and I'll use the term loosely) the club and him using eachother complicity as a potential promotional moneymaker?

My guess is the fact he completely failed to report anything when board member after board member jumped ship before they were pushed, was because he knew if he did, any credibility he gained by writing that chapter about the rag socks had just floated down Moston Brook and into the Irk.

They were his new best friends. The new way forward. The saviors of the game. He was sitting in the directors box at Pallet Park. They wined and dined him. The con was on.