Success will be having a football team representing the town of Bury and I'm 100% confident we'll have that. I'd love Bury FC to be saved and eventually merged with Bury AFC and do a Wimbledon, to show we won't take this lying down and we won't be beaten by crooks and conmen and organisations that don't care about lower league football.
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Not sure if this will work but if it does, it's a video of me confronting Dale at the pre-season friendly, mentioned in my post above:Success will be having a football team representing the town of Bury and I'm 100% confident we'll have that. I'd love Bury FC to be saved and eventually merged with Bury AFC and do a Wimbledon, to show we won't take this lying down and we won't be beaten by crooks and conmen and organisations that don't care about lower league football.
The challenge though, will be how far we can move up the leagues on our fan base. Not only do we have Man Utd and Man City down the road but a host of other local clubs (similar to Glasgow's smaller towns/suburbs). Not only that but also Football Club of Manchester (you may remember a few Man Utd fans broke away from their club due to the Glazers) and the Salford City Vanity Club (Class of '92 and all that shit)...both clubs have relatively small crowds (even smaller than ours) but they do take fans off us. Salford, for example, is now our nearest league club.
I'm sure you'll be aware the Neville brothers are involved with Salford, both Bury lads, their Mum, our club secretary and their Dad (RIP) former commercial director. And whilst I don't want to talk ill of the dead, he made the catastrophic decision (when there was at least one better option) to basically hand the club over in 2013 to Stewart Day, a deluded property developer from Yorkshire who didn’t even support Bury...I know, I despair. I don't think he put one penny of his own money into the club. He said he'd cleared the debts...the truth was he'd put all the debt (only about £750K) onto a loan, secured against the ground (previously mortgage free) at rates of around 138%.
He just went mental then, siphoning money from his property business into the club, setting up a car park investment scam, borrowing more money on the ground...whilst him and/or others taking introductory fees of going on for £1M. We were making losses of £2.5M a year...it was just sheer lunacy. Our overall debts rocketed up to massive levels, for a club of our size. Talk about being built on sand...
Day resigned after 5 or 6 years, 'for family reasons' and said he'd left the club in a stronger financial state. A total lie. His so-called 'property empire', then went bust within days/weeks owing millions of pounds. The Car Park scam raised £3M and went down with his property business, even though it's our car park. The offer was £10K a plot, at 9% interest with the promise of all money back in 5/10 years. Unregulated, of course, and it was obvious what was going to happen and it did....I know people who have lost their life savings. Day and his sidekick Glenn Thomas are utter scum.
Then to top it off, Steve Dale took over (introduced by his good mate Glenn Thomas would you believe?) saying he'd just recovered from leukaemia and wanted a second chance in life, to put back into the community. Claims of £3M put into the club, with our training facilities to be renovated with accommodation, swimming pools...you name it, for underprivileged kids. It soon turned out to be all lies...he was an asset stripper; put the club's computers and furniture and all our trophies/memorabilia (fortunately these are hidden from him) into newly set up companies, of which he and his son are sole directors. He then stopped paying the players and staff; whilst bullying non playing staff to resign. The rest is history and I don't really want to go there but he really is the scum of the earth. The leukaemia story wasn't even true (I've loads of evidence from past employees, non Bury related, confirming he just used as a sympathy vote). What sort of animal does that?
When I confronted him at a pre-season friendly last year, he threatened to 'rip my fcukin' face off.'
So we've been shafted left, right and centre for 7 years, including by the EFL...who didn't give a shit during all this time of...CCJs, WUPs, massive losses, etc.
A total and utter shit storm and a complete disgrace. If any of the above is incorrect, I make no apologies, as it is the truth to the best of my knowledge and anyway, Day, Thomas & Dale wouldn't dare take me to court, coz they know what would come out. How they are still walking the streets, is beyond belief.
Right...I need a lie down now!!!
In the meantime, see the two links below and read and weep.
‘We never got that money’: the inside story of Bury’s road to financial ruin
We show how loans, a car park and a collapsed business helped drive Bury to the brink as a winding-up petition is adjourned
Series of grinding failures that left proud, historic Bury in ruins
The appalling state of Bury’s finances led to the modern and analytical potential buyers pulling abruptly out of the deal
Success will be having a football team representing the town of Bury and I'm 100% confident we'll have that. I'd love Bury FC to be saved and eventually merged with Bury AFC and do a Wimbledon, to show we won't take this lying down and we won't be beaten by crooks and conmen and organisations that don't care about lower league football.
The challenge though, will be how far we can move up the leagues on our fan base. Not only do we have Man Utd and Man City down the road but a host of other local clubs (similar to Glasgow's smaller towns/suburbs). Not only that but also Football Club of Manchester (you may remember a few Man Utd fans broke away from their club due to the Glazers) and the Salford City Vanity Club (Class of '92 and all that shit)...both clubs have relatively small crowds (even smaller than ours) but they do take fans off us. Salford, for example, is now our nearest league club.
I'm sure you'll be aware the Neville brothers are involved with Salford, both Bury lads, their Mum, our club secretary and their Dad (RIP) former commercial director. And whilst I don't want to talk ill of the dead, he made the catastrophic decision (when there was at least one better option) to basically hand the club over in 2013 to Stewart Day, a deluded property developer from Yorkshire who didn’t even support Bury...I know, I despair. I don't think he put one penny of his own money into the club. He said he'd cleared the debts...the truth was he'd put all the debt (only about £750K) onto a loan, secured against the ground (previously mortgage free) at rates of around 138%.
He just went mental then, siphoning money from his property business into the club, setting up a car park investment scam, borrowing more money on the ground...whilst him and/or others taking introductory fees of going on for £1M. We were making losses of £2.5M a year...it was just sheer lunacy. Our overall debts rocketed up to massive levels, for a club of our size. Talk about being built on sand...
Day resigned after 5 or 6 years, 'for family reasons' and said he'd left the club in a stronger financial state. A total lie. His so-called 'property empire', then went bust within days/weeks owing millions of pounds. The Car Park scam raised £3M and went down with his property business, even though it's our car park. The offer was £10K a plot, at 9% interest with the promise of all money back in 5/10 years. Unregulated, of course, and it was obvious what was going to happen and it did....I know people who have lost their life savings. Day and his sidekick Glenn Thomas are utter scum.
Then to top it off, Steve Dale took over (introduced by his good mate Glenn Thomas would you believe?) saying he'd just recovered from leukaemia and wanted a second chance in life, to put back into the community. Claims of £3M put into the club, with our training facilities to be renovated with accommodation, swimming pools...you name it, for underprivileged kids. It soon turned out to be all lies...he was an asset stripper; put the club's computers and furniture and all our trophies/memorabilia (fortunately these are hidden from him) into newly set up companies, of which he and his son are sole directors. He then stopped paying the players and staff; whilst bullying non playing staff to resign. The rest is history and I don't really want to go there but he really is the scum of the earth. The leukaemia story wasn't even true (I've loads of evidence from past employees, non Bury related, confirming he just used as a sympathy vote). What sort of animal does that?
When I confronted him at a pre-season friendly last year, he threatened to 'rip my fcukin' face off.'
So we've been shafted left, right and centre for 7 years, including by the EFL...who didn't give a shit during all this time of...CCJs, WUPs, massive losses, etc.
A total and utter shit storm and a complete disgrace. If any of the above is incorrect, I make no apologies, as it is the truth to the best of my knowledge and anyway, Day, Thomas & Dale wouldn't dare take me to court, coz they know what would come out. How they are still walking the streets, is beyond belief.
Right...I need a lie down now!!!
In the meantime, see the two links below and read and weep.
‘We never got that money’: the inside story of Bury’s road to financial ruin
We show how loans, a car park and a collapsed business helped drive Bury to the brink as a winding-up petition is adjourned
Series of grinding failures that left proud, historic Bury in ruins
The appalling state of Bury’s finances led to the modern and analytical potential buyers pulling abruptly out of the deal
Haha. It works then...Ya hooligan!
You did well not to lamp him mate
SIMPLY THE BEST.
Thank you again for your amazing generosity and kindness in posting this.
Even his lies aren’t true..walloper!!
Been asked to put this on for the guys down there, I know it's not a good time for one and all just now, but if 12 of us donate a fiver it gets them an annual membership gives them a helping hand to get a good start.
Become a member – Bury AFC
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Remember being in the Louden listening to green giving everyone the patter, would love to meet him in bar nowDONE AB. Best of luck to Bury. We’ve been there
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Both your posts are now on our MB. It's a shame you can't view/join, as we're having major technical problems and not only can we not accept new members but we can't even make for public viewing.
It's like it's got a virus (a coronavirus!) and in lockdown!!!
Anyway, I'm almost lost for words, the support you're showing is literally overwhelming.
Thank you so much, from every Bury fan...you will never know how much this means to us.
YATP (YOU ARE THE PEOPLE!)
Will do. In the meantime (whilst I don't do Twitter or Facebook) you can view/join the following:
Looks like it's going well, maybe need to organise a bus for one of their games at this rate
Been asked to put this on for the guys down there, I know it's not a good time for one and all just now, but if 12 of us donate a fiver it gets them an annual membership gives them a helping hand to get a good start.
Become a member – Bury AFC
Obviously a couple of teenager idiots define a fan base
Exactly,every club has a few, the rest of us go by the way you were up here before and after that friendly, fans conducted themselves brilliantly, great night, hopefully you can get back to doing what others take for granted and watch your team again
You could pick shit like that out from every team's fans in the whole of the UK.
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Will defo try mate, however, it's hard enough keeping track of Bury's MB, let alone this one! So I might need some help from @acousticblue and can I say that Billy Blue (his user name on our MB) is an absolute credit to your football club. He's been an inspiration (like you and others have) but seriously inspirational, to us Bury fans. He's known as #legend, from where I come from.
Can you post a link to your MB mateWill defo try mate, however, it's hard enough keeping track of Bury's MB, let alone this one! So I might need some help from @acousticblue and can I say that Billy Blue (his user name on our MB) is an absolute credit to your football club. He's been an inspiration (like you and others have) but seriously inspirational, to us Bury fans. He's known as #legend, from where I come from.
@Andy35 is a Bury fan on here and he said on our MB the other day, "you post something on Follow Follow and within 10 minutes it's about 5 pages down!" I'm going to do a separate thread though on our MB, to get some more Bury lads and lasses on here.
Regarding Greater Manchester (we're from Lancashire btw and proud of it, and not into Government created Metros!!!) but overall, if I put all the clubs together, they wouldn't come anywhere near the support we've received from Glasgow Rangers.
A bit from Man Utd, a bit from Man City...but overall pathetic. Of the other 5 main clubs...we hate Salford and all they stand for, Stockport have had their own issues, so have been strangely quiet about it all, the BIFFOs from Oldham are also going through it but again little support, as for Rochdale, they are so gutted we don't see them as our rivals...they are dancing on our 'grave' (I'm sure Celtic are bad but Rochdale would give them a run for the money, in the little brother bitter and twisted syndrome). Ironically, Bolton (or Noblot or Notlob, anagrams of Bolton!) our real rivals (won 30/lost 30) have been the most supportive but you may recall they were going through similar at the same time as us last year. Think that's it. Oh...the pie eaters from Wigan, didn't even know they were in Greater Manchester! Don't recall any support from them and we see them as a Rugby League town anyway. Some of the perverse pleasure obtained by random clubs though, like Tranmere (semi scousers) and Shrewsbury (semi taffs) has been nothing short of shameful. We literally can't wait till we play them again...
That all said, football clubs are people and you get good, bad and indifferent. So there's been individual support from every club, either by leaving messages of support or signing petitions or making donations or leaving scarves at our ground as a memorial (see photos below)...even the odd Crotchfail fan!!! But the best support has been from clubs who have been through it like yourselves - Brighton, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Accrington, Wimbledon, Orient, etc., etc. None better than Rangers though, granted you have the fan base....but your support has been nothing short of incredible. Once again...I have goose bumps all over me! Seriously. I'm going all soppy on you!!!
YOU ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
A good friend of my son, follows Bury and England, all over the world:
Travels everywhere and only ever wears shorts...even on a Tuesday night in Carlisle:
The start of our memorial:
Kids crying:
Bastard:
Nothing more needs to be said:
See my posts on page 2. Or better still, I'll copy them below:
Tugs at the heart strings that.Will defo try mate, however, it's hard enough keeping track of Bury's MB, let alone this one! So I might need some help from @acousticblue and can I say that Billy Blue (his user name on our MB) is an absolute credit to your football club. He's been an inspiration (like you and others have) but seriously inspirational, to us Bury fans. He's known as #legend, from where I come from.
@Andy35 is a Bury fan on here and he said on our MB the other day, "you post something on Follow Follow and within 10 minutes it's about 5 pages down!" I'm going to do a separate thread though on our MB, to get some more Bury lads and lasses on here.
Regarding Greater Manchester (we're from Lancashire btw and proud of it, and not into Government created Metros!!!) but overall, if I put all the clubs together, they wouldn't come anywhere near the support we've received from Glasgow Rangers.
A bit from Man Utd, a bit from Man City...but overall pathetic. Of the other 5 main clubs...we hate Salford and all they stand for, Stockport have had their own issues, so have been strangely quiet about it all, the BIFFOs from Oldham are also going through it but again little support, as for Rochdale, they are so gutted we don't see them as our rivals...they are dancing on our 'grave' (I'm sure Celtic are bad but Rochdale would give them a run for the money, in the little brother bitter and twisted syndrome). Ironically, Bolton (or Noblot or Notlob, anagrams of Bolton!) our real rivals (won 30/lost 30) have been the most supportive but you may recall they were going through similar at the same time as us last year. Think that's it. Oh...the pie eaters from Wigan, didn't even know they were in Greater Manchester! Don't recall any support from them and we see them as a Rugby League town anyway. Some of the perverse pleasure obtained by random clubs though, like Tranmere (semi scousers) and Shrewsbury (semi taffs) has been nothing short of shameful. We literally can't wait till we play them again...
That all said, football clubs are people and you get good, bad and indifferent. So there's been individual support from every club, either by leaving messages of support or signing petitions or making donations or leaving scarves at our ground as a memorial (see photos below)...even the odd Crotchfail fan!!! But the best support has been from clubs who have been through it like yourselves - Brighton, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Accrington, Wimbledon, Orient, etc., etc. None better than Rangers though, granted you have the fan base....but your support has been nothing short of incredible. Once again...I have goose bumps all over me! Seriously. I'm going all soppy on you!!!
YOU ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
A good friend of my son, follows Bury and England, all over the world:
Travels everywhere and only ever wears shorts...even on a Tuesday night in Carlisle:
The start of our memorial:
Kids crying:
Bastard:
Nothing more needs to be said:
