Popular Post Lord Snooty Posted August 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2019 (edited) I'd actually written something today. Usually I don't. Too busy running about with one thing and another and manage to sit at the lap-top at about this time and start tapping away the drivel that appears in my crackpot mind. But today, today I'd actually made some notes in advance. Got a bit to put in without having to make it up off the cuff. But like all the best laid plans....that's out of the window now. Because I cant get my head around the wider football picture today. A picture that has seen Bury Football Club unceremoniously dumped from the football League after 125 years. The Shakers ( the club's manager once delivered an early team talk with the words "We shall shake 'em! In fact, we are the Shakers" and it was adopted as the clubs nickname) enjoyed 17 years in the top flight until the first world war and once won the FA Cup beating Derby County 6-0! They have played at Gigg lane since 1885. 5 years ago Bury were debt free and owned Gigg Lane. Now (or rather before todays events) their debts were £12 million and they no longer , in law, owned their own ground anymore. Two Spivs have, in a very short space of time, destroyed a club which had been at the heart of it's community since 1885. The first , Stewart Day, borrowed money secured on The Gigg Lane Ground at 10% interest a month, which compounded into 138% annual interest, to build some student flats for his property portfolio. When his business collapsed and Bury were ranking up the debts, he then sold the club, and it's losses to another businessman Steve Dale, (a man who had a trail of insolvent businesses behind him) for £1. Amazingly the club were promoted last season , but debts were ever growing, an unpaid £250,000k Electricity and water bill came to light and towards the back end of the season it was reported that some of the players hadn't been paid for a 12 week period from February. The Football League says tonight that it's with deep regret that with no buyer found in time they have had no choice but to remove Bury from the League. The football League....the same football league who two years ago said they were reviewing their Fit and Proper persons test for club ownership. That worked then. Desperate fans have done what they can. Trying in various ways to make money. Others have been giving up their time doing things around the ground as Staff have been laid off. The supporters have shown the very soul of what a club is. The hub of the community. An estimated 300 volunteers from 8-80 turned up at the club's Gigg Lane home on Tuesday to help get the ground ready for Saturday's scheduled game against Doncaster Rovers, but their efforts were in vain. Now Bury have gone ripped from the League because of the overspending , over dreaming actions of people desperate to get involved in the World Richest game. That small town, of just 190,000 people ,8 miles from Manchester where Alexis Sanchez enjoys a half million pound a week wage, have seen their rich history brushed aside and been given the boot. Thoughts from me tonight go to those Bury supporters, one who I saw on the news who had been going for 70 years, as his father did before him and now finds his club removed from the league like a fleck of dandruff on an Armani suit. What a f*cked up thing our beautiful game has become. What a really f*cked up monster it is. We might come on here and bicker about the merits of selling or Keeping Fox. Whether Jordan Rhodes will ever hit a donkeys arris again with the right service, About whether our stripes are thick enough, or the slow service at our snack bars. But at least we've got our club. #buryfc ============================================== ROTHERHAM - V - WEDNESDAY 7:45pm New York Stadium ROTHERHAM Predicted line-up (4-3-3 ): Iversen ; Olosunde , Ihiekwe , Wood , Robertson ;Wiles , Barlaser ,Crooks ;Vassell ,Ladapo , Smith Unavailable: SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY Predicted line-up (4-3-3): Dawson; Odubajo, Bates, Borner, Palmer; Luongo, Pelupessy, Reach; Forestieri, Nuhiu, Rhodes Unavailable: Wildsmith (Injured) Doubtful: Palmer (Back) Edited August 27, 2019 by Lord Snooty 23 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Superb post Snoots . Football is disappearing up its own arse through sheer greed , yet this allowed to happen under the watch of those who claim they have the best interests of the game at heart. One city , two clubs One has just paid £80m for a player , the other gets booted out of the league for being 12m in debt. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 1 minute ago, S36 OWL said: Superb post Snoots . Football is disappearing up its own arse through sheer greed , yet this allowed to happen under the watch of those who claim they have the best interests of the game at heart. One city , two clubs One has just paid £80m for a player , the other gets booted out of the league for being 12m in debt. The thing is, after the first Spiv the EFL allows the second spiv to buy for a pound. A Spiv who according to the times has out of his 50 odd companies registered 40 odd of them insolvent. It's an absolute bloody disgrace. Honestly. The game has gone. It really has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_D Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 very sad to say, your best ever post Snoots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 Just now, Ian_D said: very sad to say, your best ever post Snoots Not even my club, but I'll be honest, I was struggling to type with the rage. Them poor bloody fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcx666 Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 LIke I said in my post 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcx666 Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 11 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said: Not even my club, but I'll be honest, I was struggling to type with the rage. Them poor bloody fans. I get this, ajd not just because my lads a Bolton fan, but because of the EFL allowing our game to die, and our clubs to die, they let these dodgy c*nts in to own the clubs, regardless of who they are and what they have done, let alone what their intentions are. This is on the EFLs head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmowl Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Very good thought-provoking post Snoots. If it can happen to Bury it can happen to Bolton. If it can happen to Bolton it can happen to Coventry. If it can happen to Coventry... Such a rich sport. Such a rich national set-up. Run by such foolish and/or selfish people. Good luck to the reserves tonight. Great strength in depth and an opportunity for some to grab the shirt away from the current first Xl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) Great post Snoots, only thing I would take issue with is the owners of Bury were chasing the Football dream. Both owners were property developers and the end game was always to use Bury to finance their property empires. It's just like Hereford a few years ago and that is the only hope that we can have for Bury fans is that like Hereford they can resurrect the club. Bolton are going to be next I'm afraid and those who govern our game need to take a long hard look at themselves and hang their heads in shame. Tonight WABAW. Edited August 28, 2019 by Utah Owl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noddyowl Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I love football, but I hate how football has become. Shame on the rich elite getting richer while everyone else suffers. How can so few have so much while so many are expected to live off scraps?? Shame on the efl for their clearly incompetent fit and proper persons tests, therefore letting these charlatans run the club into the ground. Shame on the efl for their ridiculous profit and sustainability and FFP rules. Clearly not having losses of up to however many bloody millions has helped Bury hasn't it? Yet Sunderland are playing in the same division with chuffing parachute payments still rolling in! Cos that's fair! What a disgraceful situation. flipping working-mans game, my arse. It's reyt pissed me off this. Can't begin to imagine how their fans must feel. RIP Bury. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noddyowl Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Uto by the way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Terrible for the town of Bury... THE WEDNESDAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladeshater Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Up the owls 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Lord Snooty said: The thing is, after the first Spiv the EFL allows the second spiv to buy for a pound. A Spiv who according to the times has out of his 50 odd companies registered 40 odd of them insolvent. It's an absolute bloody disgrace. Honestly. The game has gone. It really has. Dale didn’t pass the fit and proper test, hence why EFL have been asking for all this stuff for months that dale could not produce. EFL have done nothing wrong. They could not have stopped the share transaction between Day and Dale. But they could expel bury from the competition which is what they have done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
full fathom five Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 FOOTBALL IS F@CKED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheriwozgod Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Meanwhile sky sports and Jim White spend all pre season smugly reminding us how much money the premier league clubs have spaffed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalthamOwl Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) Excellent post Lord. Such a sad day for Bury and football in general. Really don’t like Rotherham, Got to beat them tonight. Will be their biggest game of the season. 3v1 Wednesday. Edited August 28, 2019 by WalthamOwl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Bonvin Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Excellent post on a topic we never wanted to see. I come on here trying to be jovial lost of the time. Some may think otherwise. But sadly, football itself just isn't really any fun any more. And it pains me to say it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardo Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 You hit the nail on the head with this post. some gready barstewards in this world. sad times!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlsfieldowl Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Holmowl said: Very good thought-provoking post Snoots. If it can happen to Bury it can happen to Bolton. If it can happen to Bolton it can happen to Coventry. If it can happen to Coventry... Such a rich sport. Such a rich national set-up. Run by such foolish and/or selfish people. Good luck to the reserves tonight. Great strength in depth and an opportunity for some to grab the shirt away from the current first Xl. You paragraph second bottom sums the problem up. Smaller/non prem clubs penalised by silly rules not fit for purpose, whilst big Prem clubs just spend unchecked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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