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Bury Football Club are an
English association football team based in
Bury,
Greater Manchester. The team are currently playing in
Football League Two.
History
The club was formed in 1885, and took a lease on a pitch at
Gigg Lane, which remains their home today. In
1889 they were founder members of the
Lancashire League, before joining the
Football League Second Division in
1894, which they won at the first attempt. They beat
Liverpool in a play-off to clinch promotion to
Division One. They stayed there until 1912.
Bury have won the
FA Cup twice. On April 21,
1900 they beat
Southampton 4-0 at Crystal Palace, and before returning to the London venue in
1903. The latter win was achieved without conceding a goal in the entire competition, including a record FA Cup Final score of 6-0 over
Derby County on April 18. The 1903 cup also had another great achievement for Bury as the 6-o scoreline still remains as the highest ever win in an
FA Cup final which all players received a medal for.
In
1923 they were promoted again, and in
1926 they achieved their highest League position ever, 4th in the First Division. But two years later they were relegated and never played top flight football again. Steady decline followed and by
1971, they'd reached the
Fourth Division for the first time.
They are nicknamed 'The Shakers' due to first chairman, JT Ingham who, before a Lancashire Cup game with Blackburn, said "
We will shake them. In fact, we're the Shakers."
Local rivals include
Bolton Wanderers,
Oldham Athletic and
Rochdale.
Bury have produced great players over the years, including
Les Hart,
Dean Kiely,
Terry McDermott,
Alec Lindsay,
Colin Bell,
Neville Southall,
Craig Madden,
Lee Dixon and
Roger Stanislaus. Perhaps Bury's most infamous player has been
David Adekola, a Nigerian who came to Bury after successfully convincing football officials that he was a former
Nigerian international player with top flight experience in Europe, though no records of such claims exist. Their recent history has witnessed some great success with youth development, with players such as
Colin Kazim-Richards,
David Nugent and
Simon Whaley moving onto Premiership and Championship clubs to great acclaim.
Recently Bury became the first football club to score a thousand goals in each of the top four tiers of the English football league.
Currently they're in the 4th tier of English football, League Two. They were relegated to this level in the
2001-02 season - only ten years beforehand they were one promotion away from returning to the top flight. They also played in
Football League First Division, which was second tier of English league system between 1997-1999.
In late
2006, Bury enjoyed their best of run of form for the past decade with six consecutive league victories. They drew 2-2 away at
Weymouth F.C. in the
FA Cup on 12 November, 2006. This game was notable as being Bury's first ever live appearance on extra terrestrial TV and attracted a respectable average audience of 2 million, peaking at 2.6 million just before the end. However on December 20, 2006 they were the first team to ever be thrown out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player.
After the FA Cup debacle, Bury failed to win in 16 games, and relegation to the Conference for the first time in the club's history became a possibility. Bury survived the relegation battle of the 2006/07 season, where a 0-0 draw with
Stockport County ensured they'd stay up to play another season in League Two.
In 31-year-old
Chris Casper, Bury did have the League's youngest manager. In the past, they've been managed by Mike Walsh,
Stan Ternent,
Neil Warnock,
Andy Preece, and Les Hart, who was both captain, physiopherapist and coach with 44 years service to the club. More recently Casper had asked Martin Scott to step in as the new assistant manager due to the departure of Ian Miller to
Leicester City.During the close season former Lincoln City manager Keith Alexander was appointed Director of Football.
Following a heavy defeat at the hands of Darlington, it was announced on the 14th January 2008 that Chris Casper and Keith Alexander had left the club, the board terminating the pair's contracts simultaneously. A club statement said the pair had "lost the confidence of a large majority of the fans". Chris Brass, formerly the manager of the club's Centre of Excellence, was given the vacant manager's post on a caretaker basis. His first match in charge resulted in a cup upset, the Shakers knocking Norwich City out of the FA Cup in the third round. Despite this early success, results remained inconsistent, and a more full time solution was sought by the board.
On the 4th February, the club revealed Alan Knill to be their new manager. Knill had made more than 150 appearances for the Shakers as a central defender between 1989 and 1993. More recently, Knill had been employed at Chesterfield, as their assistant manager.
Their home, Gigg Lane, is also home to
F.C. United of Manchester who rent the ground from Bury F.C.
this season Bury finished 13th in the table which is one of their highest finishes in 5 seasons
Honours
Leagues
Cups
FA Cup winners 1900, 1903
Football League Cup semi finals 1963
Lancashire Cup winners 1892, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1926, 1958, 1983, 1987
Lancashire Junior Cup winners 1890
Manchester Cup winners 1894, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1925, 1935, 1951, 1952, 1962, 1968
Players
» As of 6 October 2007.
Current squad
Notable players
Famous former players include:
Benin
Laurent D'JaffoEngland
Joe Bacuzzi
Colin Bell
Luther Blissett
Stan Bowles
Norman Bullock
Lee Dixon
Martin Dobson
Derek Fazackerley
Garry Flitcroft
Les Hart
David Lee
Alec Lindsay
Chris Lucketti
Terry McDermott
David Nugent
Peter ReidIndia
Baichung BhutiaNorthern Ireland
Sammy McIlroy
Danny Wilson
Republic of Ireland
Bill Gorman
Paddy Kenny
Dean KielyTurkey
Colin Kazim-RichardsWales
Brian Flynn
Glyn Garner
Neville SouthallZimbabwe
Bruce Grobbelaar
Supporters
Film director Danny Boyle is a fan of Bury FC and watches the games at the Gigg Lane on a regular basis (External Link
).
The radio broadcaster Mike Read is a regular fan as is musician Mark E Smith of The Fall.
In 2002, club's Press Officer, Gordon Sorfleet, was awarded the UEFA Supporter of the Year Award for his work on behalf of the club. (External Link) (External Link)
Actress and model Gemma Atkinson is known to be a supporter and appeared on BSkyB's, 'Soccer AM' at the start of the 2007/08 football season as a 'soccerette', unveiling the club's new away shirt. (External Link)Further Information
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