Rising from the ashes – a year with phoenix club Bury AFC

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“Everyone's going through a difficult time and there's football back in Bury, so why not be a part of that journey?” says Bury AFC striker Liam MacDevitt. 

In August 2019, 134 years after they were established, Bury Football Club were expelled from the English Football League after the EFL found that the club were unable to pay off creditors. Under owner Stewart Day, the club had run up massive debts. Businessman Steve Dale bought the club for £1 in 2018, but the financial woes continued.

Bury's expulsion left locals without a team to watch, and local pubs and takeaways without matchday punters. That’s until a group of fans, with no prior experience of running a football club, set up a new team: Bury AFC.

The BBC spent much of the past year filming their attempts to bring football back to the town.

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/7f17c183-480b-4c24-bb2e-8b0bf6b53fab

 

 

Watch Bury: Bringing Football Back here