First Club Uk Club To Boycott A Game Over Tv (Standupsitdown)

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GOOD FOR THEM I SAY.

QUOTE (ATFC Martin @ Dec 12 2007, 08:50 PM)

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GOOD FOR THEM I SAY.

Yep, well in, hope the boycott is a success and im sure it will.

Well if anyone can pull it off FC united can.

i love fcutd, brilliant

http://www.fcunitedofmanchester.co.uk/

Its the part towards the end of the 2nd paragraph... "an 'event' will be held". Wouldnt it be funny if the event was a game against Curzon Ashton! THAT would be a big trout you.

FUOM fantastic. This club represent the views of real fans - they are not the money men who have ruined the game every where else. Hoping FCUOM go from strength to strength and other clubs follow their example

Superb.

It's about time a club's fans took a stand against TV Broadcastors. Sadly I can't see fans at any Premiership or Football League club ever doing this, but fair play to FC United.

The fact FC was set up because they are against modern football (as well as other reasons), the majority of the fans are like minded. The rest of the teams in the country either dont are or aren't willing to take a stand. Thats why a boycott for any other team wouldn't work. Sad really.

good lads!

Great club. I really hope they rise through the ranks. Love to see this sort of action in the league. It would have to be given more attention then

Great to see a club against modern football and standing up and for the fans needs. Seen some of there fans videos on You tube looks a great atmosphere, any fcum fans on here? Hows the club developing? Atmosphere still good?

Problem with big clubs is that these protests would be too hard to get going.

Even if everyone was willing to walk out etc how could a club like man u with 60k fans in the ground all get together and miss the game?

With a smaller crowd like FCUOM its a lot easier.

It probably could be possible for league 2 or conference clubs but missing a days gate takings could be crippling for them.

Brilliant.

No al calcio moderno.

From what I've read (although its early days), the big match Curzon (top of the league) v FC United only got around 300 fans about 40 FC fans travelled.

For such a big game an estimated 800-1000 away fans would have been expected to travel from FC so a pretty good boycott to me.

FC won by the way.

p.s. I believe they expected a big attendance for the reserve game, which some FC fans decided to attend instead of watching the first team.

Infact it was even better than I had thought, read what the idiot Curzon fan said, kinda sums up what most fans of today think, and they seem to be unaware thats why we are tench on all the time.

On a landmark day in the history of FC United – a club whose fans are famed for making a huge racket wherever they go – it was the silence that rang out around the Tameside Stadium that spoke loudest.
In a well organised and brilliantly executed boycott, only 20 or so away fans were visible among the 297 in attendance, with an estimated 1,500 refusing to trek to Ashton for the puzzling 12.45pm kick-off arranged at the whim of an internet television channel and without the approval of both clubs.
A few miles away at the home of Abbey Hey - just as captain Rob Nugent was powering home United’s second, building on Simon Carden’s first-half tap in - about 500 reds were watching the first-place reserves outfit beat nearest league rivals Club AZ.
It meant that for the first time in the club’s short history, as the first-team shirts put on an impressive display on the field, there was no singing, no merriment, no smiling young faces or joy expressed off it.
The mood of the day was reminiscent of the emotional Sunday back in May 2005 when 100 or so ‘Big United’ fans dressed in black to mourn the loss of their club to current owner Malcolm Glazer, but those taking part will this time know that, unlike on that dismal Cardiff afternoon, they’ve won their battle.
The Curzon fans, who have seen their savvy team rise to the top of the table in a promising five months, seemed to have no problem with having the league puppet them about on their Saturday afternoon.
One middle-aged man queuing up for a much-needed steaming cup of coffee at half time seemed to sum up the apathy, or just downright stubbornness, of his fellow Curzon supporters.
“What’s the point in staying away? It won’t achieve anything. People need to realise it’s not the 1960s anymore. You just have to get on with it,” he said.
But, according to some of those who do have the power to change the status quo, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
The magnitude of the boycott certainly seemed to home with today’s grim-faced match commentator John Warrington, head of In Vision, who said he is confident such a situation will not be allowed to take place in future.
Speaking at half-time, he said: “It is hugely disappointing that the attendance is so low for everyone involved, especially Curzon Ashton, who have lost out on a big slice of revenue.
“When the board of FC United announced that they would be in favour of a boycott of this game, I was in Las Vegas and I was disappointed that Andy Walsh was not prepared to wait just one more day until I got back to discuss the issue with me so we could have talked it through.”
He added: “As it is, I cannot see any club being shown more than once before the play-offs on a Saturday.
“But when there are concerns of the change of times, we will certainly be prepared to hold discussions with the league in order to find a solution.”
Indeed, Mr Warrington admitted he did ask the league if they would move the fixture back to 3pm, with In Vision showing the game in full at 5pm. The league refused.
League secretary Phil Bradley was at today’s game, but wasn’t too prepared to make himself available for a comment. He left right on the final whistle.
Curzon chairman Harry Galloway said that, while he expected a low attendance, it was still a blow for his club to miss out on an estimated £10,000 windfall from a bumper attendance.
FC United of Manchester general secretary Lindsey Robertson, meanwhile, said she was delighted with the success of the boycott – and that, according to Mr Warrington, it could avoid kick-off times changing in future without agreement of the clubs involved.
She said: “It just shows how strongly the supporters feel about this matter. I know it is hard for them because they want to support the team, especially in such a big game, but it’s important we stand up for what we believe in.

Curzon Ashton 0 (0) – (2) FC United of Manchester
Att: 297
S. Carden 32; Nugent 64

Brilliant!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_uXI005yU

Brilliant.

Fc United really are an amazing club.

What a trouting idiot. Of course there's a trouting reason for boycotting.

Ahh that's got up my nose now.

Well done FCUM I say.

QUOTE (the__mayster @ Dec 14 2007, 03:50 PM)

Problem with big clubs is that these protests would be too hard to get going.

Even if everyone was willing to walk out etc how could a club like man u with 60k fans in the ground all get together and miss the game?

With a smaller crowd like FCUOM its a lot easier.

It probably could be possible for league 2 or conference clubs but missing a days gate takings could be crippling for them.

In 2005 there was a boycott of one of the early stage Champions league matches in protest against the Glazer takeover.

Estimates were that around 25K stayed away that night - so it can be done - even at bigger clubs

"There will be other benefits to the Glazers' appearance at Old Trafford, not least the fact that it will increase the official attendance by three. With anti-Glazer groups urging a boycott, fewer than 40,000 tickets had been sold by last night and, unusually for a Champions League fixture, they will be on open sale on the day of the game. By comparison, last year's Champions League qualifier with Rapid Bucharest drew more than 61,000 to Old Trafford while the 5-0 defeat of another Hungarian side, Zalaegerszeg, who had shocked United with a 1-0 victory in Budapest, attracted 66,814 in 2002."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtm...09/sfnman09.xml

So FCUM now think they are bigger than the unibond league?
Does it not occur to them, that clubs at this level rely on this income and publicity?
The Unibond league was around long before FCUM came along and will be around long after they leave it.
Its all well and good for FCUM to run their own TV channels etc and cash in on that.
First they try and pull rank over the Uniobond logo being on the sleave of their shirt, now they try and blackmail them into not having their games on TV.
I hope invision now choose every FC game for live broadcats at lunch time.

FCUM's morals are designed to suit them and to suit their own financial and individual agendas.