Bury FC News

It’s back to Gigg Lane this Saturday as The Shakers welcome Merseyside outfit Bootle, hoping to extend our lead at the top of the table. With only seven games remaining in the season, and the promotion race heating up, Anthony Johnson’s side look to build on a brilliant performance last time out, when we got back to winning ways against Kidsgrove Atheltic. Our opponents, Bootle, sit in 7th place, coming off the back of a week of mixed performances, beating Chasetown 1-0 last Saturday before be

The festive season starts up with a visit to the Community Ground and back to Burscough this weekend, as matters in the NWCFL resume. In fact, it is NWCFL action from here on in after our exit from the Macron Cup last weekend at Gigg Lane. The loss by a single goal to Charnock Richard directs focus on just the league now, with 21 league games to go. And there will be recent wrongs to put right, with our last visit to Burscough to play Skelmersdale in late November being a disappointmen

We look forward to bouncing back against struggling Burscough after having lost our unbeaten record in the disappointing 4-3 defeat at Lower Breck.   Let’s be clear: it was a remarkable achievement to go 21 league games without defeat – just two short of the season’s half-way mark.   And let’s not forget our previous game was the outstanding 8-0 home win against Longridge Town, in which we excelled in every department.   Lower Breck were always going to be a challenge, given

We welcome Burscough for their first visit to Gigg Lane as we hope to resume matters in the NWCFL Premier Division this Saturday, 3pm kick-off. Our game on Tuesday night was called off owing to a water-logged pitch, so we will now play Ramsbottom later in the season. With 14 games to fit in between now and 20th April, there’s plenty to get your teeth into as we head on the hunt for top spot. We have the covers on the pitch (see here) in the hope of avoiding a repeat of the recent cance

It’s back to knock-out football as the Shakers face NWCFL rivals Burscough in the Isuzu FA Vase second qualifying round (kick-off 3.00pm).   This follows hard on the heels of Tuesday’s thrilling 1-1 away NWCFL draw with league leaders and local rivals Ramsbottom United and last Saturday’s thumping 3-0 FA Cup away victory over Blyth Spartans. The games keep coming as we progress in two cup competitions and try to catch up with an early season deficit in league games pl

Here we go, Shakers — it all comes down to this. One game. One point. And we’re champions. Take a point against Burscough this weekend, and nothing else matters — not even the result from Lower Breck’s trip to Cheadle Town. We’ve been relentless since early January putting together a run of 14 wins on the bounce, 8 clean sheets in our last 8 games and we’re not done yet. With Dave McNabb’s men chasing a dream that’s now just 90 minutes away. This is our last home game of the season. The media

For many weeks, this fixture and our Boxing Day clash against Ramsbottom at Gigg Lane have looked like crunch games. Now…well, it’s difficult to overstate how vital they are after a recent series of flaky performances. It’s quite a litany: 23rd November lost 3-4 at Lower Breck; 4th December lost 1-3 at Litherland REMYCA; 10th December drew 1-1 at Irlam; 14th December drew 3-3 at home to Abbey Hey. Watching the first-half against Abbey Hey it was hard to believe the team in blue and whi

Dave McNabb’s side come into Saturday’s game away at Chadderton with a full week of training behind them after last weekend’s emphatic win away at Barnoldswick Town.   A squad made up of mainly Under 23s featured in Tuesday night’s Manchester Cup tie away at Glossop North End, which ended 2-0 to the oppositions.   Shakeel Jones-Griffiths & Lewis Gilboy also featured in the squad for the midweek trip, giving them both an opportunity to step up into a senior role.  

This home cup-tie provides us with a double benefit: we can give Under-23s players game time and have an extra training session before the tough fixture against high-flying Lower Breck on Saturday.   It also gives fans a chance to get along to Gigg Lane to recall and celebrate our outstanding performance of the season. The stunning 8-0 home win against Longridge gave morale a massive boost right across the club.   And there will now be no NWCFL game at Gigg Lane until we entertain