Rochdale v. Mini-me Rags

[Soulboy]

I used to be in the City supporters branch at Rochdale... quality, not quantity! We held the meetings in Spotland and the club and their fans couldn't do enough for us. So I've retained an affection for them ever since.

Whenever I 've been to see the Dale there were always plenty of City faces knocking about, and I dare say there will be a few on Friday.

Keep my wits about me? Against the Amoeba Rags? Listen mate, I've been in the Stretford Paddock for many a derby game in the past, so these scumbags hold no fear.

And the best pub is the Cemetery... a legendary watering hole.

I remember the City Supporters Clubs meetings at Spotland. I have even been to a couple of them. Do you know Tommy, Soulboy?? Thats my mate he used to let me stay at his house in Rochdale when i came over for City games. Great bloke!!!

Loved going to Spotland-VERY friendly toward me as a stupid Yank and a City fan!! ALWAYS watch out for their results. Cannot believe the Dale will be on TV live in the USA!!! I will miss it as I will be in transit that day-DOH!!!

UP THE DALE!!!

I have actually spoken to you mate!

You might remember me if you knew who I was...

;-)

 

[BufordUSABlue]

I used to be in the City supporters branch at Rochdale... quality, not quantity! We held the meetings in Spotland and the club and their fans couldn't do enough for us. So I've retained an affection for them ever since.

Whenever I 've been to see the Dale there were always plenty of City faces knocking about, and I dare say there will be a few on Friday.

Keep my wits about me? Against the Amoeba Rags? Listen mate, I've been in the Stretford Paddock for many a derby game in the past, so these scumbags hold no fear.

And the best pub is the Cemetery... a legendary watering hole.

I remember the City Supporters Clubs meetings at Spotland. I have even been to a couple of them. Do you know Tommy, Soulboy?? Thats my mate he used to let me stay at his house in Rochdale when i came over for City games. Great bloke!!!

Loved going to Spotland-VERY friendly toward me as a stupid Yank and a City fan!! ALWAYS watch out for their results. Cannot believe the Dale will be on TV live in the USA!!! I will miss it as I will be in transit that day-DOH!!!

UP THE DALE!!!

Frank, where do you live in the US mate?

 

[LongsightM13]

I've said it before but still people like Oliver Holt in the Mirror keep extolling them as 'football's conscience'. They are NOT a breakaway club. A breakaway club is AFC Wimbledon, they have severed all ties with the 'parent' club. You would never get AFC Wimbledon fans cheering on MK Dons and vice versa.
Not so with FC United of Bury. They are simply a Happy Shopper version of the 'real thing'. Their fans still support 'Big United' as they laughably call them. They have not 'broken away'. They have just decided they don't want to pay Premier League admission money, but they'll still watch them on ther box. Some even go to watch both sides.
They are effectively a franchise (in the retail sense, rather than the American sport definition) of the rags operating in non-league football. What are the chances of FC United of Dublin or Singapore in the future?
They are not, as they try to portray themselves, as rebels of conscience or social activitists, the sons of Peterloo. They are a bunch of disloyal, pompous, self-important gobshites and splitters, formed by empire-building fanzine writers who want to look important but found their egos and status bruised when organisations like MUST stole their limelight.
They are watched by obese twats who long for the days when 'The Red Army' used to kick off in shopping centres in Plymouth and Southampton, and so bring their black Primark-clad, rodent-featured offspring along to show them how 'United' can terrorise long-standing, traditional non-league clubs with a real identity and history. You know, the very ones they could have gone to watch if all they really yearned for was a return to 'proper' grass roots football. We are not short on non-league clubs in Greater Manchester and I'm sure the likes of Trafford Borough or Salford City would have been grateful for the extra support.
But then they couldn't guarantee they would win every week, which is what they demanded. So they had to set up a club vastly richer than its rivals so they could steamroller teams in the lower levels of the football pyramid. After all, there's no point watching your team if they're not top of the league, is there? After all, Chelsea were winning everything in the Premier League at that time and it was no fun for a plastic, so lets have a new team that wins all the time instead.
They are a joke

 

[wearethesouthstand]

I've said it before but still people like Oliver Holt in the Mirror keep extolling them as 'football's conscience'. They are NOT a breakaway club. A breakaway club is AFC Wimbledon, they have severed all ties with the 'parent' club. You would never get AFC Wimbledon fans cheering on MK Dons and vice versa.
Not so with FC United of Bury. They are simply a Happy Shopper version of the 'real thing'. Their fans still support 'Big United' as they laughably call them. They have noit 'broken away'. They have just decided they don't want to pay Premier League admission money, but they'll still watch them on ther box. Some even go to watch both sides.
They are effectively a franchise (in the retail sense, rather than the American sport definition) of the rags operating in non-league football. What are the chances of FC United of Dublin or Singapore in the future?
They are not, as they try to portray themselves, as rebels of conscience or social activitists, the sons of Peterloo. They are a bunch of disloyal, pompous, self-important gobshites and splitters, formed by empire-building fanzine writers who want to look important but found their egos and status bruised when organisations like MUST stole their limelight.
They are watched by obese twats who long for the days when 'The Red Army' used to kick off in shopping centres in Plymouth and Southampton, and so bring their black Primark-clad, riodent-featured offspring along to show them how 'United' can terrorise long-standing, traditional non-league clubs with a real identity and history. You know, the very ones they could have gone to watch if all they really yearned for was a return to 'proper' grass roots football. We are not short on non-league clubs in Greater Manchester and I'm sure the likes of Trafford Borough or Salford City would have been grateful for the extra support.
But then they couldn't guarantee they would win every week, which is what they demanded. So they had to set up a club vastly richer than its rivals so they could steamroller teams in the lower levels of the football pyramid. After all, there's no point watchjing your team if they're not top of the league, is there? After all, Chelsea were winning everything in the Premier League at that time and it was no fun for a palstic, so lets have a new team that wins all the time instead.
They are a joke

well said our kid... most of their lads are banned from league grounds, so they set up a non league club so they can mob up wherever they go and carry it on... as soon as they start to lay the first brick at their new ground we should be in there smashing it up so it never gets built

 

[davymcfc]

just speaking with my best maye, who is an fc fan. he says there isnt any anti-city singing, and my city mate who went to the last fc game with him v barrow confirmed this. i hope they win, got a soft spot for them. i know the reasons why my mate started supporting them and support him for choosing to do it. sorry if that annoys other blues.....

i respect you from when you joined this board but this statement is fuckin ridiculous. go swivel

 

[CooperMcfcF/W]

I've said it before but still people like Oliver Holt in the Mirror keep extolling them as 'football's conscience'. They are NOT a breakaway club. A breakaway club is AFC Wimbledon, they have severed all ties with the 'parent' club. You would never get AFC Wimbledon fans cheering on MK Dons and vice versa.
Not so with FC United of Bury. They are simply a Happy Shopper version of the 'real thing'. Their fans still support 'Big United' as they laughably call them. They have not 'broken away'. They have just decided they don't want to pay Premier League admission money, but they'll still watch them on ther box. Some even go to watch both sides.
They are effectively a franchise (in the retail sense, rather than the American sport definition) of the rags operating in non-league football. What are the chances of FC United of Dublin or Singapore in the future?
They are not, as they try to portray themselves, as rebels of conscience or social activitists, the sons of Peterloo. They are a bunch of disloyal, pompous, self-important gobshites and splitters, formed by empire-building fanzine writers who want to look important but found their egos and status bruised when organisations like MUST stole their limelight.
They are watched by obese twats who long for the days when 'The Red Army' used to kick off in shopping centres in Plymouth and Southampton, and so bring their black Primark-clad, rodent-featured offspring along to show them how 'United' can terrorise long-standing, traditional non-league clubs with a real identity and history. You know, the very ones they could have gone to watch if all they really yearned for was a return to 'proper' grass roots football. We are not short on non-league clubs in Greater Manchester and I'm sure the likes of Trafford Borough or Salford City would have been grateful for the extra support.
But then they couldn't guarantee they would win every week, which is what they demanded. So they had to set up a club vastly richer than its rivals so they could steamroller teams in the lower levels of the football pyramid. After all, there's no point watching your team if they're not top of the league, is there? After all, Chelsea were winning everything in the Premier League at that time and it was no fun for a plastic, so lets have a new team that wins all the time instead.
They are a joke

I disagree, i live local to Newton Heath and they are doing loads of good stuff in the community with both city and united fans who are kids. I know a good few city fans who go watching them and a good few city fans who play or have played for them.
Its Manchesters next club as time will tell and United fans will disown them as soon as they get close to them which will happen in time.

 

[kenzie115]

As soon as I heard the draw on the radio I pencilled this one in a as possibility, and now the week's arrived I have nothing on so I'm planning on venturing down. Spotland's only a couple of miles from where I live and I've been on many occasions, once for a pre-season friendly vs City which finished 0-6 and I used to play for Junior Dale, which is the kids soccer school they ran (and may still run) on Saturday mornings.

 

[SuperKevinHorlock]

Good post LongsightM13, completely agree.

 

[blue dallas]

I've said it before but still people like Oliver Holt in the Mirror keep extolling them as 'football's conscience'. They are NOT a breakaway club. A breakaway club is AFC Wimbledon, they have severed all ties with the 'parent' club. You would never get AFC Wimbledon fans cheering on MK Dons and vice versa.
Not so with FC United of Bury. They are simply a Happy Shopper version of the 'real thing'. Their fans still support 'Big United' as they laughably call them. They have not 'broken away'. They have just decided they don't want to pay Premier League admission money, but they'll still watch them on ther box. Some even go to watch both sides.
They are effectively a franchise (in the retail sense, rather than the American sport definition) of the rags operating in non-league football. What are the chances of FC United of Dublin or Singapore in the future?
They are not, as they try to portray themselves, as rebels of conscience or social activitists, the sons of Peterloo. They are a bunch of disloyal, pompous, self-important gobshites and splitters, formed by empire-building fanzine writers who want to look important but found their egos and status bruised when organisations like MUST stole their limelight.
They are watched by obese twats who long for the days when 'The Red Army' used to kick off in shopping centres in Plymouth and Southampton, and so bring their black Primark-clad, rodent-featured offspring along to show them how 'United' can terrorise long-standing, traditional non-league clubs with a real identity and history. You know, the very ones they could have gone to watch if all they really yearned for was a return to 'proper' grass roots football. We are not short on non-league clubs in Greater Manchester and I'm sure the likes of Trafford Borough or Salford City would have been grateful for the extra support.
But then they couldn't guarantee they would win every week, which is what they demanded. So they had to set up a club vastly richer than its rivals so they could steamroller teams in the lower levels of the football pyramid. After all, there's no point watching your team if they're not top of the league, is there? After all, Chelsea were winning everything in the Premier League at that time and it was no fun for a plastic, so lets have a new team that wins all the time instead.
They are a joke

beautiful, ive a lump in my throat !

 

[2bluejacko]

I know the dale boys are well up for this, as they also think bury's boys are gonna join up with the scummy red tw*ts. Trouble is, probably get outnumbered so they were hoping the blues would come and steam in with them...