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Treasureline: Week 13
This week’s Treasureline Winners for Week 13 – 21st August 2024 are in! The rollover this week was £2000 and remember it can reach up to a life-changing £10,000!!
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Prize Draw No. Members Name £2000 Rollover BK1211 J O’GARA £1000 HL1449 B COLEMAN £100 SD4160 A FRANKLAND £50 FA1514 D CARTER £50 RP3468 J FLEMING £25 HK6772 D FERMOYLE £25 LK0038 A EATENBY £10 FA4651 J HARPER £10 HM3855 D GREENWOOD £10 FA0914 MR LITTLEWOOD £10 RP1745 L SCHOFIELD £10 PE1084 D WARDLE £10 HB5121 J HAWLEY £10 NN3465 S WOOD £10 LK5062 A COUSINS £10 PE6515 B GARNER £10 BD3318 H COLE 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 celebrate latest big winner via Treasureline!
As we fly through the off season, our colleagues at NYCDA have been out and about once more to visit recent Treasureline supporting winners. These are always nice events to showcase what we do, as well as finding out more about them and their connection to Bury FC and the town in general. Next up we made the short trip up Bolton Road to visit Margaret Dudley to help her celebrate her recent win.
Whilst not being the biggest Bury FC fan herself, it was nice to hear about Margaret’s pleasure in supporting her local club and its work in the local community. Having lived close to Gigg Lane many years ago, the connection started with her son Gary selling progammes at matches in his younger days. That familiar connection continues to this day with Margaret’s grandson and granddaughter joining the trips to watch the club more recently.
Indeed, it was interesting to hear how the support of the club’s various lottery related offers, through both Margaret and her husband Brian, goes back more than 25 years. Sadly, Brian passed away last year, however Margaret has continued on her support, which has led to her recent £1000 win on the NYCDA Weekly Draw. It was nice to hear that she plans to put her well deserved winnings to good use and enjoy some sunshine on holiday later in the year.
Right now, you too could be like Margaret for as little as £1 per week. With that in mind, for information including how to join and weekly results, as well as some insights as to where the proceeds are used and the kind of work this partnership will continue to support, please click here.
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Women’s Match Preview: Salford City (A) Weds 21st Aug 7:30pm kick-off
Our Women’s first team start the season tonight against Salford City Lionesses. In the opening game of the season the girls will look to start the campaign under Jason Jarrett as they mean to go on.
Last week Salford were beaten 1-0 in a tough away opener against Tranmere Rovers. Salford endured a tough 2023/24 season finishing 10th in the North West Women’s Regional League (same division as Bury) picking up just 7 points fewer than Wednesday’s opponents, Bury.
In the sides most recent meeting it was Bury who came out on top with a convincing 4-0 victory in April in what was the side’s final match of the season. Early in the season, in Bury’s home fixture, Salford produced a second-half masterclass to earn a 5-0 win.
Amongst the summer signings to strengthen squad depth ahead of the new campaign include 16-year-old, latest arrival Leah Costello Eastwood, former Tottenham Hotspur defender Jordan Harding and 16-year-old forward Natalie Ainsworth who has looked like a confident goal scorer in pre-season.
Why not come down and support the girls at St Ambrose Barlow RC High School where this match against Salford will be taking place.
We hope to see you there tonight for what should be an interesting fixture that we hope Bury can come out on top of.
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Match Info: AFC Liverpool (H), Tue 20th Aug, 7:45pm KO
We face AFC Liverpool tomorrow (7.45pm) as we start a run of three home games in seven days. And we do so in good heart after two great victories.
Notching up an impressive 2-1 win against Avro in the Emirates FA Cup Preliminary Round on Saturday after that thumping 7-1 win at Abbey Hey four days earlier.
The Shakers took the lead against the Northern Premier League side through Alex Cherera just before half-time. The Oldham side equalised through a free kick late in the second half just as Lewis Alessandra came on as a substitute. But new signing Alessandra grabbed the winner three minutes from time.
Maghull FC follow AFC Liverpool at Gigg next Saturday, and Cheadle Town FC on Bank Holiday Monday (both 3.00pm).
The last time Bury were at home they played out a disappointing 2-2 draw against Irlam in the first game on the new 3G pitch. We are hoping for better as welcome Merseyside-based opposition to Gigg Lane for the first time of the season. Get all your match details below.
In Opposition – AFC Liverpool
AFC Liverpool are currently fourth in the NWCFL Premiership table, having won three and drawn one of their four matches, just ahead of Bury’s two wins and two draws.
The club was born in 2008 as an expression of frustration by 1,000 Liverpool FC fans at the cost and difficulty of getting tickets for Premier League matches.
They insisted that they had no issue with the Anfield club or its owners but with the way the top end of English football was being run. Indeed, they hoped to be considered Liverpool’s “little brother”.
After entering into a ground-sharing agreement with Prescot Cables, they joined the North West Counties Football League and three years later accepted the offer of a place in the Premier Division. After relegation and then promotion, they are now seen as an established Premier Division team.
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!
Lee Bracey 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), with kick-off at 7.45pm.
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.
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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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This Sunday: Bury FC Family Fun Day
This Sunday (25th August), we are hosting our 2024 Family Fun Day at Gigg Lane.
Doors open at 10am, with a 7 a side tournament taking place on the new artificial surface from 10:30am.
Following the tournament, a winners presentation will take place, after which the Women’s First Team will face Tranmere Rovers in their opening home game of the season. 2pm kick-off.
Two 11 a side charity matches, will take place from 4:15pm, with the event finishing at 6pm.
A funfair will be on the car park from 10:30, and live music throughout the afternoon.
We’ll also have a bar open from midday, selling alcoholic and soft drinks.
The car park will also play host to various stalls including kids & adult tombolas and craft stalls.
Hot Food will also be available.
Tickets remain on sale, £3 adults & free Under 16s, via our website, click here to purchase
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Legends Q&A: Lee Bracey
Lee Bracey will be our guest for the AFC Liverpool fixture tomorrow evening, James Bentley looks back on his career.
Lee Bracey arrived at Gigg Lane from Halifax Town in the late summer of 1993, following Gary Kelly’s injury sustained after John McGinlay’s vicious assault on him in the first round of the League Cup versus Bolton, which Bury won 2-0.
Choosing not to continue with Craig Nixon, who replaced Kelly from the bench, or amateur Paul Collings, who played the first game after the Bolton game, manager Mike Walsh turned to Bracey and gave him a route back into the Football League following Halifax’s relegation into the Conference the season before. His Bury debut was the second leg of the League Cup tie and after the Wanderers drew the tie level in normal time, the match went to a penalty shootout. Bracey saved the first penalty, taken by former Shakers hero David Lee, though the visitors went on to claim victory.
Penalties were something of a speciality of Bracey’s during his time at Bury. While he was at Swansea City, he saved a Liam Robinson spot kick on a snow-covered Gigg Lane pitch in February 1991 and he continued this fine form from 12 yards with saves in the home win versus S¿¿¿¿horpe United and two in the same game at Doncaster Rovers’ tumbledown Belle Vue, in a game which Bury won 3-1.
Bracey played every game for the remainder of the 1993/94 season but the following two seasons saw him as second choice following Kelly’s recovery. However, he always stepped up to the plate when he was needed across those two campaigns including in such crucial games as the FA Cup second round match versus Crewe at Gresty Road in which Bury shocked their opponents from the division above their own.
After Kelly’s departure, Lee remained second choice following Dean Kiely’s arrival. He did not make any appearances in the 1996/97 season and after the Shakers sealed the Division Two championship he moved to Ipswich Town for a fee of £40,000. He later played for Hull City, where he saw out his Football League days.
Credit: Greater Manchester Police
While first training and subsequently working as a constable for Greater Manchester Police, Essex boy Lee turned out for a number of non-league clubs in the north including Chorley and Rossendale United. He has settled in the area with his wife Claire and their two boys and it will be a pleasure to welcome back this fans’ favourite.
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