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
what utter rubbish!!. Like it or not they decided that Glazer taking over was the final straw. Some completely changed and have never set foot in OT since, others flit between the 2, others use FC or Utd as their 2nd team. Reasons vary from SKY TV, prawn sandwich brigade, new age fans, ticket prices, players lack of reality, Utd pissing them off with their general attitude to the everyday fan and or changing of football kick off times to suit TV.
To give up going to one of the biggest and most succesful clubs in the world especially when it is on your doorstep is a step that while many dont agree with should be respected.
A lot of Utd fans completely disagree with it and this issue has split the core utd support where once it was "all as one" and "us against the world" attitudes.
As for your references about the "red army" again rubbish...trouble follows them because inbreds from non league teams think it is the opportunity to have a pop at "Utd"
anybody who attended the FC Utd vs Maine Rd game a couple of years ago will prove that it was no place where the "red army" congregated to attack women and kids etc. It wa simply 2 non league sides linked to big clubs having a "local derby"
Any team, that grows from nothing to an average of 2-2500 fans, who have sold 4000 for the cup game at rochdale deserve some recognition no matter how begrudging.
Good luck to them and all fans who do "their own thing" rather than toe the SKY modern day football mantra which is slowly killing the game we ALL love
