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Re: FC United pass the begging bowl round again
Those names brought back some fond memories there.
Nice one :-)
ancoats said:Mad Eyed Screamer said:MCFCHOWELL said:You're not wrong, we left Moston over that; it was clear they were gonna get shafted. What ever happened to that pitch being built on the middle of Boggart Hole Clough running track, nothing. I also seem to remember that they had found out Ronald Johnson Playing Fields had a grant of some kind, then the fields magically ended up with FC after they couldn't build it on Ten Acres.
Moston Juniors received a grant of 750K to build a club house. It was felt they needed more as once built it would need to be maintained etc.
Once Ten Acres Lane was scuppered (amidst rumours City had told the council it was too near to Eastlands....) the council decided to bring the funding for MJFC into the equation for FCUM's stadium.
My understanding is 200K of the 750K went on the pre planning stuff (testing of the land's suitability, soil samples, feasibility studies, underground checks as there's a big mine underneath! etc etc)
So had the stadium bid failed, MJFC would have been down 200K.
Not that there was ever a doubt that the bid would fail......
A Manchester city council led bid having to be approved by Manchester city council planning department...... looking back I even wonder why we locals bothered campaigning against it..... it was an obvious foregone conclusion from day one.
the people don't have any power over the council and the fat cats will just eat anybody campaigning
when there is big money to be made from back handers in a paper bag
I have a soft spot for moston and them playing fields score more goals on that first pitch than anybody else from the late 70s to the mid 80s we would play until you could not see the ball
anything headers and volleys 2 touch 60 seconds 1 and you're thru right to 11 a side full games
sad that its gone and them scum have taken over
Those names brought back some fond memories there.
Nice one :-)