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Chorlton said:
because that would be supporting another club.

By setting up their own club, they can set up a club as they want - as an industrial and provident society, with one member one and a say in everything that may affect the club, with an ethos and a manifesto that puts itself into the heart of a community

their club, their rules
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This is typical of Rags, 'we don't agree with you so we are picking up the ball and going home.'

The minute you became a plc you stopped being a 'club' all Glazer did was make it controlled by one prick instead of several.

And what happens when FCUM start taking on the world like a lot of your 'fans' are predicting and you need more funds?? One guy with fat pockets and a big ego will take over again- and you lot will spit the dummy again.
 
errm, actually, isn't this FCUM taking the idea of a 'club' right back to what and where it used to be, back at the start of the game, before money entered into the scheme of things?
like chorlton says - not a business, but a leisure co-op, done for the love of the game itself?
 
Bomber said:
If they were that cheesed off with the high life at MUFC why didn't they go and support Hyde Utd or some other 'real' local side instead of creating their own mini elite club, which is undoubtedly where they are heading and where their fans see themselves belonging, pathetic !
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Bomber the thing is most non league clubs are run by local businessmen and very few are controlled by their fans.
There have been loads of clubs wound up by their directors or who have had their grounds sold to property developers.
I dont know who owns Hyde Utd but fans starting their own club has to be a good thing in my book.
 
Red Jezza said:
errm, actually, isn't this FCUM taking the idea of a 'club' right back to what and where it used to be, back at the start of the game, before money entered into the scheme of things?
like chorlton says - not a business, but a leisure co-op, done for the love of the game itself?
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wot he said.....:cool:
 
Congratulations once more to FC United of Manchester who won the league on Wednesday night.

they've come a long way

And there has been more than a few incidents along the way... people stirring it, increased tensions between factions and not to mention much soul searching as people looke towards M16* and remember what they had - but for FC its been a good year, it would have been nice to have been in the FA Vase a little longer but on 3rd May the league cup will be FC's first cup final

Also the reserves won their league in this, their inaugural year.

Congratulations to all involved

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*revol, thats where man utd play
 
moose said:
I wouldn't want to be anywhere else anymore :)
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and of course there are those for whom the love for 'this thing of ours' has got stronger.

Were you at Maine Road game at Gigg? I went along expecting a muted sort of, show up and get the points game but i have to say i was knocked out - crowd of over 3k, as loud as they had ever been and i honestly got tingles up my spine as i watched it.

I have watched my friends go from home and away, rarely miss a game Manchester United to traipsing around deepest darkest lancashire mill towns in pursuit of non-league football - and i have to say it, for me, has been an absolute blast.
 
Congratulations on your second championship in a row great news. Which league are you going into now..?? Unibond Div 1 I would imagine. I see that we are playing you in a friendly on Saturday 4th August at Gigg Lane. I will be up in Lancashire for that weekend, at a wedding, so will not be able to make the match. Now lets hope we can make it a double celebration with the Dons getting out of the blasted Ryman Premier.
 
Andy the Don said:
Congratulations on your second championship in a row great news. Which league are you going into now..?? Unibond Div 1 I would imagine. I see that we are playing you in a friendly on Saturday 4th August at Gigg Lane. I will be up in Lancashire for that weekend, at a wedding, so will not be able to make the match. Now lets hope we can make it a double celebration with the Dons getting out of the blasted Ryman Premier.
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yip uni div1 - talking with some at the club on wednesday they didn't reckon that things were due to get that tough this year - and certainly the last 2 teams to get promoted out of this league have not struggled up there...

Looking forward to seeing the Dons again - feed Salad before ye let him out tho eh?
 
Chorlton said:
Were you at Maine Road game at Gigg? I went along expecting a muted sort of, show up and get the points game but i have to say i was knocked out - crowd of over 3k, as loud as they had ever been and i honestly got tingles up my spine as i watched it.
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Certainly was - as good as any 'big' Derby :D
Tomorrow should be a hoot, with the usual outstanding levels of drunkeness.
 
moose said:
Certainly was - as good as any 'big' Derby :D
Tomorrow should be a hoot, with the usual outstanding levels of drunkeness.
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can't do tomorrow - glasgow this weekend for more league celebrations hopefully- back for the end of season bash next weekend tho
 
OOooo, never thought I'd post in this forum :o :eek:

anyway, as FC United are the only team I have watched (once) in the many, many years since I was 9, then I consider myself a fan :cool:

I'm looking forward to the next time :)
 
Chorlton said:
Good article by Oliver Holt in todays mirror:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...name_page.html
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Absolutely!!

Holt said:
Think of Dennis Skinner railing from Labour's back benches against the sell-out Tony Blair and you've got an idea of their position in football culture.

To the more romantic, they were knights on white chargers waging war on the football anti-Christs who talked of fans as 'customers' and the club as 'a brand'.

They were part of a movement to give football back to the fans, part of the counter-culture initiated by AFC Wimbledon and taken up by clubs like Stockport County, now run with passion and intelligence by supporters.
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:cool: :cool:
 
isn't there something ironic about FCUM's rise through the leagues? Don't the fans of other teams who have been battling in those leagues for years see the FCUM lot as Johnny come latelys with bigger resources?

I think good luck to them but it's funny watching people who like to make snidey remarks about Man Utd fans being glory hunters all of a sudden take an interest in FCUM and that level of football.

I mean Chorlton was never a Man Utd fan, so what's made him interested in FCUM or that level of football in general? Why's he go to their matches but not to some team who have been duffing around in those leagues for years?
 
revol, the very fact that you and people like you don't 'get' FC United is just one of the many great things about that club
 
Chorlton said:
revol, the very fact that you and people like you don't 'get' FC United is just one of the many great things about that club
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eh no, I get it and wish them luck, I'm just not going to pretend that I can get excited about them. I also think that these sort of projects can only really work on a small niche scale and that if they were to get properly sucessful then the same dynamics would take over as every other club.

Saying that if I lived in Manchester I'd probably go check them out, they couldn't play any worse than the duffers in the Irish league.
 
Chorlton said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_and_provident_society
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Thanks for that, you going to send me a link to the Co-Operative next? Maybe even an old text by Prodhoun?

I suppouse your one of those people who thinks Barcelona is above the commercialism of other teams?

The simple fact is that if FCUM get successful and attract money there will be huge tensions created and either they stagnate at a certain level or they become increasingly commercial in order to compete with other teams in the market.
 
revol68 said:
Thanks for that, you going to send me a link to the Co-Operative next? Maybe even an old text by Prodhoun?

I suppouse your one of those people who thinks Barcelona is above the commercialism of other teams?

The simple fact is that if FCUM get successful and attract money there will be huge tensions created and either they stagnate at a certain level or they become increasingly commercial in order to compete with other teams in the market.
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I repeat again, i don't think you 'get' FC. Fc United is very commercial: sponsorship, online shop, media partners the whole shebang - no one is anti commercialism, running a football club would be pretty difficult without it. The difference is, and i really didn't think i had to spell this out, that the money goes into the club... not to shareholders, not to finance a debt of a millionaire businessman, but to a club that works at community level. As the club gets bigger I certainly hope that the commercialism continues, down the line there will be difficult questions such as the issue of shirt sponsorship, but with the 'one member, one vote' system in place the club will go in the direction that the fans want it to. Now if you know better than me that this can't work at a higher level knock yourself out... or you could just stick to making presumptions about me and that... cause it never gets boring...
 
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