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New Saturday Social

We are pleased to announce a new arrangement with Bury FC over use of the Gigg Lane social club for our Saturday home games.

The Saturday Social will be open to home and away fans with a different speaker each game – and for the first time, a percentage of the takings will come to FC United.

We will still charge £1 on the door and we will encourage away fans to attend and mingle with our fans too.

Premiership matches will be screened and additional activities such as quizzes, bingo and “play your cards right??? are being planned – we’d like supporters’ input into what this could include.

In addition we are looking at the Man of the Match presentation being made in the club afterwards and putting on food before and after games (post-match will be subject to the area being available, if Bury has no event in there).

“We already have live music and ale at Course You Can Malcolm, and there’s the busy Main Stand Inn – which each have their regular customers. The Saturday Social isn’t designed to compete with them, but it will offer something new and different for those who perhaps so far have not been coming earlier for a pre-match drink or mingle at all,??? said FC United’s sponsorship manager Mike Burtonwood, who has negotiated the deal with Bury FC.

“I very much hope the fact our club will earn some income from this new arrangement means supporters will get in there early to enjoy a drink, some food and hear from our array of speakers. We need fans to get behind this as it could be a great earner for FC United as well as providing another really good pre-match venue.???

The Saturday Social kicks off this Saturday (August 20) at our home game versus Chasetown, where assistant manager Roy Soule will take part in a Q&A session from 1pm – 1.30pm. Our well known FC Radio presenter “Swampy??? has agreed to host the first event of the season.



First Posted ~ 10:40 Wed 17 Aug 2011
News ID ~ 3703
Last Updated ~ 00:47 Tue 16 Feb 2021