OUT OF THE DOLDRUMS NEW LIFE BRINGS REWARDS

OUT OF THE DOLDRUMS NEW LIFE BRINGS REWARDS

Anyone involved with a club knows its a game full of emotions of pain & glory & at times hope it is also during the painful times tgat all can appear lost but this season in non league football is a story showing it is not always as bad as it seems, cast your mind back to August 2019, when Bury were expelled from the EFL after a failed takeover bid from C&N Sporting Risk collapsed at the eleventh hour, this was a club that had existed since 1885, and spent 125 years in the League, it was a gut-wrenching, almost unthinkable blow.
Players were left jobless, fans were heartbroken, and Gigg Lane, one of the oldest football grounds in the world, fell silent.
Bury’s removal marked the first time a club had been expelled from the League since Maidstone United in 1992.
For Bury supporters, it felt like a death in the family.
It took two years of unrelenting effort by passionate, determined fans to get the wheels of recovery turning. Supporter-led groups rallied, held meetings, raised funds, and, most importantly, refused to let Bury FC become a footnote in football history. Their motto was simple: bring football back to Gigg Lane.And in 2023, after years of turmoil, they succeeded in merging the breakaway Phoenix Club Bury AFC with the original Bury FC. Gigg Lane was restored, the club was reformed, and the dream was reignitedNow finally six years on From the rubble of despair, Bury FC have risen.Like i said Almost six years since their darkest day, expelled from the English Football League after 125 years, The Shakers are champions once more for the 1st time in over 30 years supporters can celebrate a trophy win to rank alongside their f.a.cup win over a century ago.On a sunlit Saturday at Gigg Lane, in front of 8,719 roaring supporters, they secured promotion to step four of the English non-league pyramid. A 4-0 demolition of Burscough was a huge win and resurrection befitting of the Easter Weekend.Flares lit up Gigg Lane like beacons of triumph. After the final whistle, the pitch was stormed by a tidal wave of joyous fans—some with shirts older than the players they supported.With promotion to step four of the non-league secured, Bury are still five tiers below where they were in 2019. But no one in BL9 is thinking about that at the moment.The road back to the EFL is long, but now it’s visible, it may never be achieved but at least the hope is there again.The foundations are in place. The heart is beating again. Again it's a reminder that no matter how low you feel & however far away it seems the game is a revolving circles & despite failure success could once again be around the corner & that's why we love it