BURY boss Chris Casper will have his ears tuned to the crowd as League Two's big game of relegation Russian roulette comes to an end on Saturday.

Casper's team are one of seven battling to avoid the bullet in the tightest relegation scrap in Football League history.

The Shakers go to Notts County with both teams knowing they could drop into the Conference with Rushden.

It's one of six games that will have an impact on who survives and who drops, and Casper is determined that Bury will not fall into the relegation spot, currently occupied by Oxford.

Informed

Bury need a point to survive, whatever Oxford do in their home game against Leyton Orient, but Casper excepts all ears to be on events at the Kassam Stadium.

"I don't think it's just about Oxford and Orient; there are five or six other teams who would be involved in that," Casper said.

"But I'm sure the fans be keeping everybody informed with cheers, groans and all the rest of it."

If the Shakers were to go down, they would hold an unwanted record of being the team with the highest points tally ever to be relegated from the Football League.

That record is held by Scarborough, who went down with 49 points in 1999. The Shakers currently have 52, while Stockport and Macclesfield have 51. Oxford have 49.