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Lol, drank to much last Saturday night and signed up as a co owner of Man Utd 'rebel' club, FC United of Manchester

For $12 pounds I have now have a say in who my 'second' club recruits, team selection, colours they wear etc

Watch out Glaziers!!!

Im on board

Have drawn Wittion Albion at home in the 2nd Round Qualifying of the FA Cup.

The gate gets split exactly 50/50 at this stage of the FA Cup so could be a nice little money earner for us.

are we allowed to bet on the team we are part owners of?

our next match tomorrow morning we are at $3.08

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:are we allowed to bet on the team we are part owners of?

our next match tomorrow morning we are at $3.08

Probably not, but I'm not too familiar with the rule of the English Football Association.

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:are we allowed to bet on the team we are part owners of?

our next match tomorrow morning we are at $3.08

LOL

Im going to give it a go!!!!

Hope they dont bust me with my $5.00

Im confident in the lads atleast coming away with a draw at worst.

loved the goal highlights from saturdays win on youtube

how do we go about streaming these matches???

and for the FA Cup we can write our own ticket as noone has us listed....that could help pay for the new stands!

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Im confident in the lads atleast coming away with a draw at worst.

loved the goal highlights from saturdays win on youtube

how do we go about streaming these matches???

and for the FA Cup we can write our own ticket as noone has us listed....that could help pay for the new stands!

Depends on where and when we are playing, you may need to check tonights opponents web page to see if they have one.

From what i can gather its only the Saturday afternoon timeslots FC United stream but i could be wrong.

Yeah i think we can get a draw tonights just need to the Wolf to score another!!!!!

The Youth team are doing a good job

The reserves are sitting top of the table

The League team is about to make its move to get into the Play-Off zone

The Academy side is sitting mid table

The Women's side well they need to get their act together

Half time down 1-0

End up losing 4-0 and finished with 9 on the pitch

[quote="mighty_tiger_79"]End up losing 4-0 and finished with 9 on the pitch[/quot

Leadership spill - heads will roll ;-)

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:End up losing 4-0 and finished with 9 on the pitch

One game and you have already brought your bays influence with u

whufc wrote:

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:End up losing 4-0 and finished with 9 on the pitch

One game and you have already brought your bays influence with u

ease up there, you should be grateful if I bring the Bays influence with me, as when they are up and about they are making finals!!

FA CUP here we come!!! look out Wembley

anyone know what the record is for teams moving through divisions?

I find it pretty awesome that almost any team can theoretically be in the premier league

bennymacca wrote:anyone know what the record is for teams moving through divisions?

I find it pretty awesome that almost any team can theoretically be in the premier league

Wasnt long ago Swansea was playing in league 2 (the fourth divison) ex West Ham junior Leon Britton had played with them through every division.

Bournemouth were in league one not so long ago.

Burton Albion, Fleetwood Town in league 1 were a non league football side not to long ago and are teams on the rise.

While teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth, Oxford, Cambridge United, Notts County, Luton Town, Wrexham, Grimbsy Town, Tranmere Rovers, Southport are all in league 2 or the English National League and were in the championship in the last ten years but down to bad management etc have dropped.

This has the structure of how all the leagues work right down to amateurs, it pretty cool actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_f ... gue_system

The promotion/relegation system through England and the FA Cup are two of the reason i absolutely love football.

bennymacca wrote:anyone know what the record is for teams moving through divisions?

I find it pretty awesome that almost any team can theoretically be in the premier league

Depends if you mean consecutive or just promotions. Not many sides have 3 consecutive promotions but plenty of sides make big jumps over a short period. Bournemouth for instance were in League 2 (Div 4) only 5 years and were close to being relegated from league football that year.
Wimbledon made div 1 only 9 years after being elected to the FA.
Plenty of sides move 3 to 4 divs in the lower leagues and non league football

whufc wrote:Wasnt long ago Swansea was playing in league 2 (the fourth divison) ex West Ham junior Leon Britton had played with them through every division.

Bournemouth were in league one not so long ago.

Burton Albion, Fleetwood Town in league 1 were a non league football side not to long ago and are teams on the rise.

While teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth, Oxford, Cambridge United, Notts County, Luton Town, Wrexham, Grimbsy Town, Tranmere Rovers, Southport are all in league 2 or the English National League and were in the championship in the last ten years but down to bad management etc have dropped.

This has the structure of how all the leagues work right down to amateurs, it pretty cool actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_f ... gue_system

The promotion/relegation system through England and the FA Cup are two of the reason i absolutely love football.

Jim05 wrote:Depends if you mean consecutive or just promotions. Not many sides have 3 consecutive promotions but plenty of sides make big jumps over a short period. Bournemouth for instance were in League 2 (Div 4) only 5 years and were close to being relegated from league football that year.
Wimbledon made div 1 only 9 years after being elected to the FA.
Plenty of sides move 3 to 4 divs in the lower leagues and non league football

thanks for that lads.

Yeah i was reading that wiki article the other day when you first posted about FC United, it is very cool.

i was more thinking of a club that has had a meteoric rise in a shortish amount of time, bournemouth fit that bill pretty nicely.

Portsmouth probably fit the bill in the opposite direction.

On the other scale there are the yo yo sides who are consistently in the same couple divisions because of their financial structure and how sensible they are, teams that spring to mind are WBA, Wolves, Birmingham, Reading, Norwich, QPR who have financially set themselves up to be strong at Championship level but arent willing to go that extra step and spend more when they get promoted.

Burnley are heading down that path at present

bennymacca wrote:

whufc wrote:Wasnt long ago Swansea was playing in league 2 (the fourth divison) ex West Ham junior Leon Britton had played with them through every division.

Bournemouth were in league one not so long ago.

Burton Albion, Fleetwood Town in league 1 were a non league football side not to long ago and are teams on the rise.

While teams like Portsmouth, Plymouth, Oxford, Cambridge United, Notts County, Luton Town, Wrexham, Grimbsy Town, Tranmere Rovers, Southport are all in league 2 or the English National League and were in the championship in the last ten years but down to bad management etc have dropped.

This has the structure of how all the leagues work right down to amateurs, it pretty cool actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_f ... gue_system

The promotion/relegation system through England and the FA Cup are two of the reason i absolutely love football.

Jim05 wrote:Depends if you mean consecutive or just promotions. Not many sides have 3 consecutive promotions but plenty of sides make big jumps over a short period. Bournemouth for instance were in League 2 (Div 4) only 5 years and were close to being relegated from league football that year.
Wimbledon made div 1 only 9 years after being elected to the FA.
Plenty of sides move 3 to 4 divs in the lower leagues and non league football

thanks for that lads.

Yeah i was reading that wiki article the other day when you first posted about FC United, it is very cool.

i was more thinking of a club that has had a meteoric rise in a shortish amount of time, bournemouth fit that bill pretty nicely.

Portsmouth probably fit the bill in the opposite direction.

Luton dropped three divisions pretty quickly.