Sad day. Not only for their supporters, but football as a whole. Can't imagine how they must feel.
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Sad day. Not only for their supporters, but football as a whole. Can't imagine how they must feel.
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I can, having seen us lose our own league status and come within a millimetre of extinction. We've been close enough to have a better idea than most of what they must be feeling, but thank God for the Brothers Reedtz!Originally Posted by cher1
We need to appreciate how fortunate we've been, and hope Bury can somehow survive as a club, even if they have to start again from even more humble beginnings than us.
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It's very sad, but it's been threatening to happen for a while. It wouldn't surprise me if Bolton are next. Its interesting to see what the wider implications are though from the EFL statement. They say League 1 will have 3 relegation places so it fits 24 teams next season but they will discuss league 2 in September. It's weird that they haven't thought about this before?
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The incompetence of the football authorities should never be under-estimated, but I'm sure they would have discussed the situation. They probably have to wait for a meeting to get the agreement of all the other clubs to the new format. It could be 22 teams and 2 relegation places by then, which will be welcome news in Southend!
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I think its down to the fact that they aren't keen on having no relegation places from League 2 (1 if Bolton pull through).
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I blame the premier league and sky for everything that is wrong with the game we all love, most of these premier league fans' know nothing of the real game, the premier league is sterile and artificial it is more like scripted soap opera than sport for a local community to enjoy, many PL 'fans'have never been to 'their' teams ground never mind spent a wet, cold tuesday evening sipping a bovril and watching their team get pumped at gigg lane under the floodlights, those memories are the ones that make any successes we might have worth all the suffering,
Bury have always been a club like Notts in my memory lots of downs with the occasional season of triumph, today is a sad day for lower league football and could mark the beginning of the end, there are still several clubs on the brink of failing and i'm sure many more just teetering above the abyss.
Interesting that you mention a root and branch review, i remember this phrase being used over and over after a poor england world cup several years back, the FA was going to sort out the game from grassroots to premier league, whatever happened to that? all i've seen is a bigger TV deal for the PL, player wages and transfer fees going through the roof and the only knock on to teams like bury,coventry,macclesfield,notts,bolton,port vale,blackpool etc etc etc is that they can no longer compete in the transfer market, so have to pay ridiculous wages to be able to compete,greedy chairmen overspending and buying into the hype in an attempt to reach the pot of gold a couple of promotions can get them. just 15 miles from Bury and about 60 places up the FL ladder Man Utd can afford to pay a guy 500k a week to sit on the bench,while his agent angles for another multi million £ move to Italy and thats just one example,
Greed has infected the game and it all started with the Premier league and skytv , i hope these 'fans' are happy when there are only 20 teams left standing.
a sad day for proper football
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The fans must feel angry, pig sick, disbelieving.
Awful position to be in as they can't play any games this season to keep the feeling of there being a club. The ground will probably be turned into a building plot, not straight away but Dale won't sell the land to a nascent football club.
Big job for the fan base to now get a Phoenix club up and running for next season.
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Really sad news, and I hope they at least find a way to resurrect the club in some form. While most of us will feel for the Bury fans having come so close on more than one occasion, I would bet that the majority of Premiership fans will barely give this news a second glance.
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Sadly on twitter it's the "fans" of premier league teams that are gloating and being generally arses (and a lot of Leeds fans but that's a given!) We really need a root and branch review of football
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Or save a lot of time and pretty much adopt the Major League Soccer model.
I don't like the idea of Americans showing us the way on anything football-related, but their system of wage caps, 'designated players, 'trading' players, youth development and keeping all clubs partially controlled (and protected) by the League is far superior to the systems in most other countries, where the football industry is like the Wild West. The only thing I wouldn't adopt is the moving of club franchises from one city to another. Nobody likes MK Dons!
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