LongsightM13 said: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
Didsbury Dave said:LongsightM13 said: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
That's pretty much bang on the money, Longsight.
I know a Man United season ticket holder from Ramsbottom who goes to all their games.
Doesn't that defeat the object somewhat?
The vast majority of United fans chose United because they win every week and get the biggest crowds. This is a little extension of it.
And if I ever meet a Blue who goes to watch them I'll tell him what I think of him.
davymcfc said:i respect you from when you joined this board but this statement is fuckin ridiculous. go swivelweejh said: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.....
Didsbury Dave said:Blues who "support", "have a soft spot for" and "respect" FC United?
I've fucking heard it all now.