Football is coming back to Gigg Lane Bury FC have announced that they have come out of administration and will return to play football at Gigg Lane – with plans to return to the football pyramid. The Shakers were expelled from the Football League in August, 2019 and then owner, Steve Dale, putting the club […]

4 years ago

Gigg Lane has not hosted a game in nearly three years A group of Bury supporters have finalised a deal to buy back Gigg Lane, the club’s historic old ground. Fan groups Forever Bury and Est. 1885 reached a satisfactory agreement with administrators, 15 months after the club’s administration was confirmed. Gigg Lane has not […]

4 years ago

Bury FC fans have never stopped hoping An association of Bury Supporters Groups and Bury-supporting Benefactors have today signed a “Head of Terms” agreement for exclusivity to buy Bury FC and the Gigg Lane stadium. In August 2019, it became clear that Bury FC were in trouble, facing expulsion from the Football League. Owner Steve Dale […]

4 years ago

“It’s not about remembering the injustice of us being in this situation, it’s that we’ve a genuine chance to get a happy ending…” Over the course of a few weeks in August 2019, the camera crews and reporters were a regular sight on the main car park outside Gigg Lane. Bury FC, the proud old […]

5 years ago

Welcome to the weird world of football Most football club statement are boring, to be quite honest with you. The very purpose of club statements is to incite as little excitement as is humanly possible, so the language is mundane, only certain people read them, and the cycle continues forever. Well, that is, until now. […]

6 years ago

It is two weeks since Bury were expelled from the EFL In the first few weeks of the 2019/20 season, two of the biggest stories in English football were those of Bolton Wanderers and Bury FC – two historic teams whose very futures were under threat due to a failure to provide the funds to […]

7 years ago