Thanks for posting this, although it is heart breaking to watch
There is still the issue today that Bury FC is still owned by steve dale, the Chairman of Bury FC who admitted he is not a football fan, never knew Bury had a team until he aquired it for £1, he stopped paying all staff and bills, he got us expelled from the English Football League so he can no longer enter any team in any league, he lost our chance to be reinstated in the football pyramid only two divisions lower than we were expelled from, a CVA arrangement was agreed by dale to pay off the club debt but dale did not make any payment, he lost our precious membership of the FA so now a new application is needed. This new FA application means that the name Bury FC can not be used.
The Bury FC is now in administration, the deadline has just been extended to 2023 by the receiver, as a secretive alleged fan group called EST, are unable to gather the required funds have just recently announced they have saved the club. There are some that believe this, but all the evidence is that it would have to be a new club.
So why are we not rejoicing at this news.
Our last game was in May 2019
Back in September 2019 the Forever Bury Supporters Trust held a meeting at the Town Hall where they declared their first option was to try and buy the club, they had an interested party, this subsequently failed, 2nd option was to let a bitcoin dealer with no connection to the club and more to the point, no money either, to buy the club out of liquidation - this failed too and the club is not liquidated.
Option 3 was for Bury FC fans to create a 'phoenix' football team by the FA deadline date of January 2020.
Over 300 Bury fans have risen to this challenge to give us the fan owned
BURY AFC, with now 1600 membership, who were put in tier 10 of the football pyramid, denied promotion due to covid cancellation of the league, but are now at the top of the division, playing attacking football at Radcliffe, 3 miles out of Bury.
There are some that despise this new team and create a division but Bury AFC is the way forward.