FC United

[Spencer_White]

For all those who laughed at them.

Take a look

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

im still laughing!

[Amir]

Impressive.  Depending on what happens at Old Trafford, that club could only get bigger really.  A large amount of their fans are wavering, despite the way alot of the stuff they talked about doing never occured.

[Elsterap]

They are committed to low ticket prices to allow the whole community access to their club - it costs £7 and £2 for adults and Under 18s respectively. They want to bring back the 'good days', before the criminal commercialisation of the game under Murdoch and co. There is no merchandising of anything and everything, the games will always kick off at a 3 o'clock on a Saturday (even if this clashes directly with England) and we can stand….yes, stand with no comeback at a game!

That lot sounds good.  Wish the Trust/Supporters Club could have more running in the club when you read that.
(And about stewarding but i cant find a decent quote)

[Leggett]

maybe the KOB's who aint come back should set up a football team?  :-))(

[Kinky Tom]

Only a matter of time before both FC Utd and AFC Wimbledon go avove us in the table at this rate. :|

[Batch]

Still think its just a club set up by united fans who threw they toys out the pram.

I can see a point to AFC Wimbledon, no point in AFC United.

[lebowski]

i agree.

what's wrong with them supporting bury? or their nearest alternative league club?

[Elsterap]

Still think its just a club set up by united fans who threw they toys out the pram.

I can see a point to AFC Wimbledon, no point in AFC United.

I see a point in it.  I'm on another forum and a FCUM fan was saying the reasons he chose to support them. Cant find a link so i'll post what i can remember:

The cost (no need to explain)

The amount of games he could go to.  He applied to go to every home game that Man U had one season - was allowed to go to 6.

The fanbase. He said a story about someone sitting behind him wearing a Man U shirts asking if Gary was Phil's brother.

Standing (and stewards)

Atmosphere

I imagine that the prospect of Glazer increasing ticket pices even more and trying to squeeze every last drop out of the club was the final straw.

i agree.

what's wrong with them supporting bury? or their nearest alternative league club?

But these are teams that i imagine these fans didn't like (almost rivals)

[Spencer_White]

Still think its just a club set up by united fans who threw they toys out the pram.

I can see a point to AFC Wimbledon, no point in AFC United.

Cos its their club. Sometimes you need to throw a few toys out of the pram.

Besides if you are not thinking about the long term future of STFC start thinking now.

[Spencer_White]

Liverpool to go the same way within 8 years. Triggered by the team leaving Anfield and being owned by an asian. The game is going to eat itself.  


Its not easy though - The story of Newport County below.  :run:

The 1980s heralded both the brightest and darkest moments in the club's history. In 1980, promotion was finally achieved from the Football League basement, the club only being 5 points from being crowned champions. This was also the year that County won the Welsh Cup, entitling them to play in the European Cup Winners' Cup the following season. The cup run turned out to be quite eventful — The first round against Crusaders of Northern Ireland was won 4-0 on aggregate (4-0 at home and 0-0 away). The second round against Haugar F.C. of Norway was even more convincing, after a 0-0 draw away, the home leg was won 6-0, taking the club into the quarter finals against Carl Zeiss Jena F.C. of East Germany. The quarter final away leg was drawn 2-2, with Tommy Tynan scoring in the 90th minute, but the club controversially lost the home leg 0-1 in front of 18,000 fans. Carl Zeiss Jena went on to be the eventual runners up.

The decade ended in a rather less glamorous way — with back-to-back relegations from Division 3 to Division 4, and then into the Conference, eventually going out of business in 1989. However, in June 1989 a new team was founded and elected to the Hellenic League (some four divisions below the Football League). Since then, the club's main aim has been to regain the Football League status held by the original club.
The new club

Known as The Exiles, they obtained their nickname as a result of the need to play their inaugural season in the north Gloucestershire town of Moreton-in-Marsh at which venue they won the Hellenic 'League and Cup double', winning promotion to the Southern League.

After two seasons back home in Newport at Somerton Park, football politics consigned them to a further two seasons of exile at Gloucester and the club was forced to resort to legal action to protect themselves from being forced out of the English football pyramid. That litigation proved successful, a landmark High Court verdict enabling them to have a permanent home in Newport at the then newly-built Newport Stadium. The club’s first season back in Newport, in 1994-95, saw them promoted to the Southern League Premier Division by winning the Midland Division Championship. That was achieved by a 14-point margin, on the way to that championship, the club set a then Southern League record by winning 14 successive league matches.

Subsequent re-organisation of the upper divisions of non-league football saw County take their place in the inaugural season of Conference South, one of the two feeder divisions into the Conference. As of 2005 the club are now only two steps away from regaining their place in the Football League.

The club’s away following is among the largest outside the Football League and supporters have generally been the source of inspiration. The club is rare in non-league football as many of its fans live far from Newport.

[Batch]

Still think its just a club set up by united fans who threw they toys out the pram.

I can see a point to AFC Wimbledon, no point in AFC United.

Cos its their club. Sometimes you need to throw a few toys out of the pram.

Besides if you are not thinking about the long term future of STFC start thinking now.

So if Swindon were to float publically for a massive amount of cash, use that to buy players and management that give them several league titles and champions league success, then somebody they don't like buys all the shares...well quick, lets form AFC Swindon.

If we were to fold or move from Swindon the that is totally different. If that happened then I would wish AFC Swindon well, but its not for me.

Elsterap, I see his points, but I just couldn't switch club like that. Besides which the media rightly or wrongly promoted AFC United as the 'anti Glazer' club, hence my point above.

[Amir]

So if Swindon were to float publically for a massive amount of cash, use that to buy players and management that give them several league titles and champions league success, then somebody they don't like buys all the shares...well quick, lets form AFC Swindon.

That's assuming that all United fans were completely happy about the way their club was being run before Glazer turned up.  It was more a case of Glazer's arrival galvanizing the fans into action, seeing him as a figurehead for all that has gone wrong with football.

It's different kind of situation they are in, as opposed to any small club.  Still I don't think they have much less reason to feel like their club has been taken away.

[yeo]

People that hate Fc United are generally Manchester Utd haters.Its just bollocks as far as Im concerened ,good luck to the Fc and fair play to the people that have decided enough is enough.Its something thats going to happen more and more as people reclaim the game.

[janaage]

Whoever just said why not support Bury or someone.  So if we went to the wall you'd start supporting Rovers, or Oxford would you?  Even though a few ex-Swindon fans formed their own club.  I know who'd I'd be supporting, the new club rising out of the ashes of the old.

Good luck to FCU.