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    Match Info: Cheadle Town (H), Mon 26th Aug, 3:00pm KO

    It’s the final game in our Gigg Lane triple header this week, as we host Cheadle Town on Bank Holiday Monday.
     
    Saturday saw us book our place into the next round of the FA Vase, with a 3-1 win over Maghull. After a goalless first half. Iyrwah Gooden got the first goal inside five second half minutes, before Bebeto Gomes poked home from close range on 73 minutes. Maghull’s Adam Hammill grabbed a goal back with an amazing free kick, whilst Alik Babayan sealed the victory in stoppage time.
     
    We return to the league action in sixth position, five points off league leaders Ramsbottom who picked up another league victory on Saturday, in one of the five league games played whilst the Shakers were in cup action.

    You can hear from manager Dave McNabb and the outgoing Efe Ambrose, as well as catchup on the match highlights below:


     
            In Opposition – Cheadle Town
    Cheadle Town are in 10th position in the league, having drawn 0-0 at home to Stockport Town on Wednesday evening in their last league outing before a 3-1 win in the FA Vase against Glasshoughton Welfare.


    They started life in 1961 as a Sunday League side called Grasmere Rovers and took their present name in 1983 when they joined the NWCFL. They finally reached the Premier Division after a highly successful 2022-23 season and finished in 13th position in 2023-24. 

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

    Click on the image to the left to review all Gigg has to offer!

    Tony Rigby is our special guest in Starkies & Eyelevel Sponsors Lounge.
        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: The game will be broadcast live from Gigg Lane via our new streaming service accessed via TicketCo. The cost is £7.29 (inc.VAT & fees).
     
    Season ticket holders can gain access to live streams for FREE as part of their season ticket purchase. Enter your 5-letter reference code from your season ticket receipt in the ‘Promocode’ box and click apply.
     
    Your link to access the game will be provided in your receipt following the transaction.

    CLICK HERE TO BUY MONDAY’S LIVE STREAM

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      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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    Legends Q&A: Tony Rigby

    Tony Rigby is our guest for Monday’s Bank Holiday clash with Cheadle Town, James Bentley looks back on his career.

    Ask a Bury fan between the ages of about 38 and 50 who their favourite player is and it’s a certainty that a significant proportion will answer ‘Tony Rigby’.
     
    He is their Greg Farrell, the skilful maestro with a football, the silky maverick who scored some of the greatest goals they ever saw from the time when football meant everything to them – more than their school work, their first, tentative steps into employment and their nightlife in Waldo Peppers and the Roxy.
     
    Rigby’s arrival at Gigg Lane was inauspicious to say the least. We knew that in John King, Mike Walsh’s assistant manager in the 1992/93 season, we had a member of the backroom staff who knew the non-league scene inside-out. Nick Daws had already been recruited and, though starting the season playing on a part-time basis, he was fast becoming the reliable, solid pro who would go onto have the most efficient of careers. So when the fashionably-straggly-haired Rigby came from Barrow as the Shakers pushed for promotion from the basement at the first attempt in 1993, hopes were high.
     
    Over the next six years, he didn’t disappoint. Coming straight into the side, he made a midfield berth his own and showed a sign of things to come with an excellent goal at York in the league before Bury missed out in the play-offs to the same side, featuring one Dean Kiely in goal.
     
    Further magical performances followed in the damp squib that was the 1993/94 season but it was in the following campaign that his stock really rose. His incredible goal against Preston in the second leg of the play-off semi-final played on the Gigg Lane mudbath and sandpit is a favourite goal for a generation of fans and he was only the width of a post away from getting Bury back into the resulting final against Chesterfield at Wembley.
     
    The next season brought with it more spectacular strikes including those against Reading – twice – and Lincoln and Cardiff, the latter coming on the day Bury finally escaped the basement.
     
    Although he played a restricted role in the second successive promotion season which followed, Tony’s attitude and nature meant that he was the perfect person to have in the squad to keep spirits high as the jitters set in. Yet when he was offered his opportunity in the second tier, he grabbed it with both hands as anyone who was at St Andrews on that chilly night in February 1998 will testify. To score from such a distance, against a goalkeeper who was part of a team pushing for the Premier League, with such an audacious distance, was Tony Rigby all over.
     
    It’s why he’s loved and why he’ll get such a terrific response from the fans today.
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    Coach to Garforth Town

    We take on Garforth Town in the FA Cup First Qualifying Round next Saturday.

    We have one coach available for fans to book themselves onto.

    The supporters coach departs Gigg Lane at 12:30pm, returning at 5:15pm post-match.

    No Alcohol will be permitted on this coach.

    Click here to buy your ticket.

    Any queries, please contact either Joan (07592017525) or Karen (07857316444).
     
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