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This Saturday: Cheadle Town (a)

We take on Cheadle Town in our penultimate game of the season on Saturday, albeit in different surroundings as we head to Broadhurst Park, the home of FC United of Manchester.


Please read the following article ahead of Saturday’s game which includes key information to ensure the day goes as planned.


Tickets & Admission


Tickets are still on sale via Cheadle’s TicketSource platform, and we encourage everyone to purchase their in advance of the game. This will allow matchday turnstile operators to scan your tickets, and prevent unnecessary queues to allow everyone to enter the stadium ahead of kick-off.


All tickets issued will be unreserved, with access available to all areas of the ground upon entry. The ground will be open from 1:00pm, with early arrival suggested for those who wish to be seated in the 500 available seats. We would appreciate supporters showing courtesy to those with greater difficulty standing.

Tickets will be on sale until 1:00pm on the day of the game, so to guarantee entry make sure you purchase your ticket in advance.


Travel & Transport

FC United of Manchester have provided their stadium Travel Plan, which is accessed here. The car park at Broadhurst Park will be made available for officials, players, staff and for those with mobility issues. To contact about this, please email here.

Parking elsewhere is limited to the roadside along Lightbowne Road. Please do not park along St Mary’s Road or the streets accessed from there, which are to be saved for residents.

There are a number of public transport options including a local tram stop at Newton Heath & Moston (around a mile walk from the ground), train station at Moston (under a mile from the ground), as well as several bus services from Manchester which alight on St Mary’s Road close to the ground or along Moston Lane, which is a five minute walk away.

Please check out the details on timings of services before you travel here at Transport for Greater Manchester.

Live Stream

An overseas live stream will be available for this fixture. More details will be published in our match information later this week.
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Reaction: Tyler James & Bryan Ly Padiham (H)

Bury won 4-0 over Padiham taking the points total to 103 as the Shakers looked to close in on a title victory Bryan Ly and Hatrick hero Tyler James spoke to the club to give us their thoughts.


Tyler James started the interview by speaking about his hatrick with him saying “It was a special moment. I saw the chances and took them. I got the win, so it’s all good from there.”


Further adding “I loved the moment. I’ve seen the fans cheer and smile. It was a special moment for me”


Bryan then gave his thoughts on the game, with him saying “We knew coming into the game that we had to win. Obviously, everyone was refreshing Twitter last night about the lower breck game, but when we come into the changing room, that’s all forgotten, and we know the quality that we have in the changing room. We knew that if we started off really quicker, then we’d blow them away and that’s what we’ve done. We’ve blown away by four goals. Every time they had the ball; we were on top of them. I just think we showed our class today.”


Bryan then spoke about the tactical change to two 10s for this game, he said “We’ve adapted really well in training. Obviously, me and Tyler, we’ve played with each other previously a few years ago and we know each other’s game. When the gaffer told me I was back starting today and I knew I was in the 10 with Tyler, I knew it was just going to work. Obviously, you’ve seen it there. It was just fluid football. We were just bopping it side to side, and we took our chances. Well, he took his chances and bringing a match ball home. So, yes, that was good.”


Tyler then gave his thoughts on the system, he said “Yes, it’s good because different positions bring different opportunities. I like playing with Bryan because we both know what we do and we both bounce off each other, even in training, just passing around. So, when we came on here, we knew what we were going to do and pass him off the park.”


Bryan and Tyler then both looked ahead to next weeks clash against Cheadle with them saying.


Bryan Ly: “Yes, no game’s going to be a pushover. We’ve got two games left. Obviously, if you told us at the start of the season that we had two games left to win a title, you’d say that. So, we’re just going to take it game by game like we have been doing all season and turn up Saturday, not expecting to just brush them over. We know we’ll be in for a game and hopefully, obviously, do what we’ve done today and blow them off the park.”


Tyler James: “Get behind us, support us as much as you can because support means a lot. We’ve got to get them six points to win the league on the 19th.”


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Reaction: Dave McNabb Padiham (H)

Bury won 4-0 over Padiham with a dominant display as they looked to close out the season, Manager Dave McNabb spoke to the club to give us his thoughts on the game.


Dave McNabb: “I think so. Probably somewhat up in one way, which is outstanding. Everything, the warm-up was the best we’ve had all season. The intensity at the start of the game, first half, brilliant. 2-0, blew them away. Could have been more, should have been more. Second half, even better and then you add in the noise coming from the sidelines. It was actually enjoyable listening to them. It’s a shame that the game was going on at times because it was just so intimidating. It’s so intimidating. Look, them being our 12th man at times, got us over the line in tough games. Today was one that he could probably enjoy a little bit more in terms of the performance and the results. We haven’t done anything yet. We haven’t achieved what we set out to. We’ve got two big games, and we need to go and try and win both of them.


Dave then spoke through the two changes to the starting 11 with Bryan Ly and Connor Pye coming into the 11, he said “Obviously, we know Rusty’s [Stepans] picked up a bit of a hamstring injury last week, so he wasn’t available for selection today. So, Conor’s been chomping at the bit really to get in. He’s been a little bit unlucky that Rusty’s been playing so well. So that was a no-brainer and then the second one, we just felt that having a different type of movement and different options from the top line in terms of the way that they set up. So, we’ve done our homework on Paddy for today. Look, it worked. Bryans again, he’s had a tough spell in terms of form, had a bit of a drop in form. But form’s temporary and class is permanent, as they say. So, he’s worked hard the last few weeks. When he’s come off the bench, he’s made big impacts. And look, he deserves his chance, and he’s took it today.”


Dave then spoke about his tactical changes throughout the season with him saying “Yes, so I think it’s about having the fundamentals in place and the philosophy, like you said. We wanted to try and make sure we played a little bit more than what we had done for the spell. I think we’ve been solid. We’ve almost made sure that the back line was defensively solid and then tried to work our way forward. So I think you’re starting to see some of that now. In terms of two number 10s, two number 9s, they’ve got the freedom to play rotations. So there was no set formation when we set it up today. It was around having the back line set, the midfield set, and the rest. Go on and express yourself and enjoy yourselves. Attacking flexibility is something that we’ve seen all season in terms of players in different positions.”


Dave then spoke about the importance of having the full squad as they head into the final games “It’s massive. You can’t win things. You can’t compete at the top of a league with 11 good players. You do need that squad of 17 and 18. That’s what we’ve been fortunate enough to have here. The lads have bought into it, and I think that’s why you’re seeing spells where whether you’re talking about Tyler [James], whether you’re talking about Reece [Kendall] at times, Josh Gregory, Bryan Ly, they’ve all spent time on the bench. They’ve all spent periods on the bench where the forms dropped and whatever, but they stayed bought into it. They stayed working hard. They’ve been listening. Then sooner or later, you get your chance, and then it’s down to you to take it and look at the squad and the togetherness in the group just through the roof at the minute. We asked them today to be brave. We asked them to go and be brave and enjoy themselves, and I think that’s got to be the message for next week.”


Dave then spoke about the return of Will Callaghan to the side with him saying “We’ve been watching Will from afar. He’s been playing really, really well, obviously with Rusty being injured and unavailable. We need to make sure we’ve got options on that side of the pitch. Connor hasn’t played as much as he’d like, as we said before, so we’re just worried about whether he’ll be able to get through the 90, but Connor was outstanding, and Will was really good when he came on as well.”


Dave then finally looked ahead to next weeks clash with Cheadle away at FC United “I think we’ve got to go and win the game next week and put ourselves in a really good position. The full focus this week is going to be on a really tough game. It’s an away game, neutral, whatever you want to call it. Cheadle have got the way that he sets them up tactically. They’ve got a way of playing that’s quite awkward and quite difficult to adapt to, so they’ve definitely got dangerous players. We just need to make sure that we’re up forward and make sure we’re planned and prepped and ready to go, and if we play like we do today, no-one’s going to stop us.”



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Perfect Pitch – where football and opera collide

PERFECT PITCH is a new collaboration between Walk the Plank and English National Opera – a space where football and opera collide.

An 8-week programme of community connection and workshops, some with Bury FC fans at Gigg Lane, culminated last week during the match between Bury v Squires Gate, with an operatic and football chant try out from the terraces, and a half time performance.

The half time performance featured ENO soprano Carrie-Ann Williams, and baritone Patrick Keefe, accompanied by the PERFECT PITCH choir and the orchestra of English National Opera. The choir performed a version of the Toreador song, from the opera Carmen, with new words developed by the Bury fans during the workshops.

The combined choir of singers and football fans of 115 included Bury FC and Manchester Laces Fans, Bridgewater Hall Singers, Bury Fire Choir, Pop Vox Choir and Wigan Choral Society.

Lauren Monaghan-Pisano from English National Opera said, “It has been a joy to get stuck into our first programme delivered in Greater Manchester with brilliant partners Walk the Plank, working closely with football clubs and singing groups to build our PERFECT PITCH choir. We are delighted with how much people enjoyed this first sharing of the project, and we can’t wait to connect with more people through opera as we grow the project over the coming months.”


Lead Image Credit: Debs Parr


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Match Info: Padiham (H), Sat 5th Apr, 3pm KO

Shakers.. there are only 3 games to go! The final month of the season starts now As this Saturday we play host to Padiham.


We need you down in numbers, loud and proud!


Our run of 12 successive victories, along with clean sheets in every one of our last six matches has been superb. But on their own they win us nothing. The only way we can be sure of that league title is to win every match.


If you’ve been to Gigg Lane on a match day, you know what a fantastic atmosphere there is. If you haven’t, just come and sample it. Unlike last weekend, there won’t be any opera singers or choirs, but the atmosphere In the ground keeps getting better and better.


With all that support, it must be very difficult to play against the Shakers at Gigg Lane. But Padiham are having a good season and will be difficult to beat. They’re currently 4th in the table and aiming for the best finish they can muster.


So be there and get behind the lads. Be louder than ever and prouder than ever.
In Opposition – Padiham

Padiham won the NWCFL Premier Division title in 2013 and had three seasons in the Northern Premier League.

They’ve improved enormously since we beat them 5-1 at the Ruby Civil Arena back in July and have lost only seven out of 43 matches.


They also have a long and proud history, dating back to 1878, and were among the top clubs in Lancashire for 10 years. But that era ended when the paying of players was legalised and the Football League formed.


On the Day & In the Ground
Our Matchday @ Gigg guide is available to read to find out everything you need to know going on in and around the ground.

Tickets are on sale now, via our ticketing page on our website. Pay on the day is also available in the Main & South Stands.

Gordon Armstrong will be our guest for the afternoon, hear him in Starkies from 1:20pm.

Jacket Potato van ‘Get Stuffed’ will return to the car park for this game, open from 12:30pm.

Starkies Bar
Before kick-off: Starkies will be open at the normal time of 12.30pm for supporters to access from the Manchester Road End entrance before kick-off. This will be on a first-come, first-served basis up to capacity, which will be managed on the door.

Supporters will only be able to gain entry by presenting their online ticket purchased in advance, and no re-entry will be allowed once supporters leave to take their seat ahead of kick-off.

Starkies Pass ticket holders will be permitted access at any time in line with their purchase.

During the game: After kick-off, the bar can be accessed by anyone situated in the Main Stand (via the door linked to the concourse) or in the South Stand (via the front of the Manchester Road End). The bar is open throughout the game, including at half-time.

Post-match: Starkies will be open to all, again up to capacity, with last orders at 9:30pm.

Match Coverage & Live Stream
If you are unable to make it to the action at Gigg Lane, we’ll have all the live coverage across our media platforms.
Live Stream: An international stream will be available, for this fixture. Not available in the UK
Live stream tickets will be available to purchase from Friday evening, on our ticket webpage HERE.

Keep up-to-date with all our video content via the club’s YouTube Channel. Click to subscribe and never miss highlights and match reaction across the season.
Audio Commentary: Roch Valley Radio will be providing commentary for this game. Join the team from the press box at Gigg Lane. Click here ahead of kick-off to listen live. Audio commentary will be provided for every game of the season, so you will never miss a piece of the action.
Social Media: Our team will also bring you in-depth text commentary via the club ‘MatchDay Live‘ Twitter feed, with team news and half time and full time updates available also on Facebook and feel like you are there with our match galleries and imagery available over on Instagram.
Whatever the weather, wherever you are across the globe, we have you covered.
Up the Shakers!
#ShakersTogether | #BuryFC | #PartOfIt
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Treasureline: Week 45

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Bury FC is a partner of NYCDA and a beneficiary of the NYCDA Weekly Draw. Gambling Commission account number 5166. Registered Office: 1-2 Frecheville Court, Bury, BL9 0UF. Responsible Person: Mr M Brocklehurst. For more information, please visit www.nycdaweeklydraw.co.uk/treasureline.


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CLUB STATEMENT: Cheadle Town (a)

We can confirm our final away game of the season against Cheadle Town will now be played at Broadhurst Park, home of FC United of Manchester.

The fixture will take place as planned on Saturday 12th April at 3pm.

Tickets will be sold by Cheadle Town for this fixture, and will be available to purchase from tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 9am. Click here to purchase your tickets.

We’d like to thank all partners who have worked on this – FC United of Manchester, Cheadle Town & North West Counties like – for their help and support.

Further details on match information will follow.


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