Its ovvvveeerrrr
So how was it for you then?
For me, it was superb, being involved in a fans club, being a member and having a say in the running of said club, watching a group of lads who have come together from scratch win the league in their 1st season, meeting lots of top quality people and catching up with people who I hadn't seen for years.
This 1st season culminated in a superb trip to Leipzig for a friendly, those of us who had given up M16, and our season tickets 12 months ago thought our Euro Away trips had ended, but no, and last week approx 400 FCers made the trip to Germany to see the lads fight out a 4-4 draw with LOK Locomotive Leipzig.
There has been many a highlight during the season, here are just a few of mine:
* Watching people turn up to Leigh and pack out the Goose and other pubs before the 1st ever game
* The trip to AFC Wimbledon, the welcome down there and the realisation of what was happening.
* The pies at Leek (and also the rain, not sure my jeans ever recovered to be honest)
* The night game at Northwich V Winsford, the 1st difficult league game and with cheating woolybacks to boot.
* Utd Utd day- the largest gate up to that point.
* Cheadle at Edgley Park. Bestie died that week, the silence, the applause, then the goon as Chaddy equalised in the last minute.
* New Mills at Macc Town. Sat out of the rain in the directors box, day of Besties funeral, 5-0 win.
* The trip up to Barrow (after all the build up, 2 flat tyres meant I got there at 2.20pm)
* Flixton on Boxing Day, crap day, crap weather, crap game.
* Winsford at home, huge crowd and a superb 2-1 victory.
* Blackpool in Sunny Feb, quality trip overall, classic beach football game.
* Chadderton at home. 4-0 and promotion.
* Great Harwood Town at Gigg. The presentation, the open top parade, the TAG at The Swan.
* Leipzig away. The 1st FC Euro away, hopefully the 1st of many.
So its Div 1 to come next year and with the new structure of the league, there will be no scouse teams to visit (well ok St Helen's but they don't really count.) No doubt next season will be a lot harder, but with a few new additions to the squad, and with a reserve team, so all the squad will be playing regularly, there is no reason that FC can't do well.
Promotion again? Who knows, will be tough, but it can be done.
For me, it was superb, being involved in a fans club, being a member and having a say in the running of said club, watching a group of lads who have come together from scratch win the league in their 1st season, meeting lots of top quality people and catching up with people who I hadn't seen for years.
This 1st season culminated in a superb trip to Leipzig for a friendly, those of us who had given up M16, and our season tickets 12 months ago thought our Euro Away trips had ended, but no, and last week approx 400 FCers made the trip to Germany to see the lads fight out a 4-4 draw with LOK Locomotive Leipzig.
There has been many a highlight during the season, here are just a few of mine:
* Watching people turn up to Leigh and pack out the Goose and other pubs before the 1st ever game
* The trip to AFC Wimbledon, the welcome down there and the realisation of what was happening.
* The pies at Leek (and also the rain, not sure my jeans ever recovered to be honest)
* The night game at Northwich V Winsford, the 1st difficult league game and with cheating woolybacks to boot.
* Utd Utd day- the largest gate up to that point.
* Cheadle at Edgley Park. Bestie died that week, the silence, the applause, then the goon as Chaddy equalised in the last minute.
* New Mills at Macc Town. Sat out of the rain in the directors box, day of Besties funeral, 5-0 win.
* The trip up to Barrow (after all the build up, 2 flat tyres meant I got there at 2.20pm)
* Flixton on Boxing Day, crap day, crap weather, crap game.
* Winsford at home, huge crowd and a superb 2-1 victory.
* Blackpool in Sunny Feb, quality trip overall, classic beach football game.
* Chadderton at home. 4-0 and promotion.
* Great Harwood Town at Gigg. The presentation, the open top parade, the TAG at The Swan.
* Leipzig away. The 1st FC Euro away, hopefully the 1st of many.
So its Div 1 to come next year and with the new structure of the league, there will be no scouse teams to visit (well ok St Helen's but they don't really count.) No doubt next season will be a lot harder, but with a few new additions to the squad, and with a reserve team, so all the squad will be playing regularly, there is no reason that FC can't do well.
Promotion again? Who knows, will be tough, but it can be done.
posted by Steven Wood at 3:32 am
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