Bury F.C.
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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.
HistoryThe 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 acivement for bury as the 6-o scorline still remains as the highest ever win in a fa cup final wich all players recived 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 had 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 are the Shakers." Local rivals include Bolton Wanderers, Oldham Athletic and Rochdale. Image:Bury1892.jpg
The Bury team pictured in 1892
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. [1] Currently they are 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. 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 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.[2] 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 would 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 have 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. HonoursLeagues
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