Macclesfield Town wound up

[vonuber]

Sad this. Watched them with my Dad in the late 80's/ 90's.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/17/m...

146 years down the pan just like that. I always remember at school the kids either had united or city shirts, with Macc being the poor relation.

[monty999]

vonuber said:

Sad this. Watched them with my Dad in the late 80's/ 90's.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/17/m...

146 years down the pan just like that. I always remember at school the kids either had united or city shirts, with Macc being the poor relation.

Yes, very sad news unfortunately. I played there for around 5 years in the mid 80's, leaving just after a narrow defeat in the 3rd round of the FA cup to Port Vale who went on to draw Spurs (and beat them !!) in the next round.

Always a good friendly, family atmosphere and the one result I always looked out for on a Saturday after the Chelsea result.

Hopefully the club can be rebuilt at some level to keep football going in Mac.

[vonuber]

A week of Gareth Bales wages would've saved the club. Ho hum.

[ReallyReallyGood]

Or if... the club was properly run

[vonuber]

ReallyReallyGood said:

Or if... the club was properly run

It was, until the football league didn't do its job in vetting the new owner.



It says something though, that rather than sympathise with a 146yr old club go under and the subsequent loss to the community - for relatively paltry money - that that is your response.

[LosingGrip]

Has anyone watched the BBC program about the team? Just started it and I think it’s quite good. Robbie Savage comes across likeable I think!

[towser44]

LosingGrip said:

Has anyone watched the BBC program about the team? Just started it and I think it’s quite good. Robbie Savage comes across likeable I think!

Me and my daughter were at the Winsford United match (they are our local team) that's on the programme and he was getting some stick ha ha! Seemed a decent guy though and he took it in good humour :-)

[Mojooo]

Saw this last night, worth watching

Its funny how much work it looked like it took to get the club back together and it was 'only £4m'.
I'd be fuming with some of the Macclesfield fans who have that sense of entitlement to slag them off for minor things when you have literally just saved their club.

[popeyewhite]

There is still a team of football players whose home ground is Macc. They are playing Stockport on Tuesday night IIRC.