Cheered on by a crowd of 3,159 at Altrincham's Moss Lane ground, FC United seized on slips by championship rivals Winsford and Padiham to extend their lead to 17 points with a 4-1 rout of Holker Old Boys.Goals by Josh Howard, Chris Simms - his first for the club - Will Ahern and Rory Patterson kept Marginson's men riding high ahead of tonight's rearranged clash with Great Harwood at Accrington's Interlink Express Stadium (7.45pm).
Only a disaster can now prevent FC United being crowned champions in their debut season, but Marginson doesn't want them to ease up with the winning-line in sight, saying: "We've put ourselves in a great position, but it's vital we keep going." Tweet

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Another great result on Saturday. Good away results as well with the Blackpool Mechs winning 1-2 away to Paddium and Great Harwood Town beating Winsford 0-2 away. Seven more wins from our last eleven league games and we will be promoted Champions. For directions to tonights game see http://www.fc-utd.co.uk/news/story.php?story_id=220
could not have put it better tommy eric free malcolm red dashny, tampa bradford manchester la la land. You tell TRUE MAN BOOTS FAN, Dash Tampa, GOATS MAN U, t ommy free and his brown nose mate red all over, GPS Teacher, Sargent PE, eric hicks, malcolm the red.
Great win by those REAL reds on Sunday and looks like FC fluked it again. Still my investment is starting to look safe.
Great day out on Saturday and an excellent win.
Another top display and surely we are heading for our first silverware. For a club so young this is incredible and a big thanks must go to the dedication of the staff, players and last but not least the fans.
All in all a great weekend where the results at Padiham, Winsford, Cardiff and Anfield would have brought a smile to any United.
Hey a team wearing fake United jerseys beat a team wearing fake Celtic jerseys! Wonderful result as vertical-striped FakeCeltic lost to the Red-clad fake Reds. The bandwagon lost some luster with the win over Wigan. 500 days till the death of Fake Club United. (That is my guesstimate)
Thats easy for you to say - they call me dash because i think i have fooled them all! dimwit land. I have to disagree with you. I like my FACTS and this proves it. That is why they call me judge FCUM Deed shareholders for the truth dash walny blah blah blah via Collective Amnesia Golly gosh gee wiz gridiron rubdown village people.
So a fledgling club win some silverware in their first year how truly amazing. Thing is if you have the financial muscle of FC its a disgrace if you don't win something. As someone so aptly said FC are the Chelsea of the pub non league. Marginson however is no special one. I think Tommys estimate is a generous one but one more season will be a step too far. When the team start struggling the rats will jump another ship just as they jumped from Liverpool to Manyoo to Arsenal and then to Chelsea. To paraphrase Marx (Groucho) who would want to be part of a club who would have these people as members.
Tommy, if people didn't stand up for what they believe in then your country would still be British! ? why did the young American country decide to leave the world's biggest empire of the time.....
Having been to Cardiff to watch Utd beat Wigan I now realise that club is dead. The people around me, the passion, the players and the feeling of absolute love for my club have gone. I paid money to watch a club that are really a fake immitation of years gone by with over paid players performing fake celebrations like it meant more than there weekly wages. In recent weeks I've watched FC Utd and was suprised how many of the Old Stretford End I recognised, these are people with a real passion for football watching players performing for pride and not for money. As from next season those 3 egg head Glazer brothers in Cardiff on Sunday won't be receiving any more of my money. As from next year I'm leaving the fakes of Old Trafford to follow the true reds. The time has come unfortunately for the fake Man Utd of Old Trafford to stand down and the Real FC Utd to stand up. As for Malcolm, what the hell has this Country come to when they are handing out free lap tops in mental institutions to allow nutters to send in comments to local newspapers. I don't know.
George - It has been over 230 years. I think most of us let go of the whole England v. USA thing awhile ago. But why the 500 days till the death of FC United as we know it Tommy? Well let me tell you: Manchester United will win the Premiership title next season. But the end of Premiership most of the flip-flop, never really were United fans will be back on the United bandwagon and will be back into their respective pubs cheering on Rio and Rooney and will deny ever they had ever heard of Gigg Lane. I am so tired of the stale bill of goods that FC fans promote. You will not be promoted 2 out of 3 years every year as in the unpublished plan. This is a minor-league sport with a bunch of glory-hunters and hangers on that consider themselves to be rebels. Big men these guys! Look at me, I'm a big fish in my small lake. They have bought into the anti-Glazer hype without knowing squat about the Glazers. And the way FC is run! Where do I start? From the scarfs to the kits to the Bhopbalspielen charity, to the one-man-one-vote garbage when the board runs the team. What a farse?!!! It could not possibly be more "fake" and "plastic" if the script were written by Keanu Reeves and if he played Andy Walsh in the movie!
I'll save more for later.
keep it up LADS you are doing well tommy you promised to jump of the top of the megastore wayback were ALL STILL WAITING
when will you tampa fakes get it? FCUoM is not about supporting a 'winning' team or trophy hunting. I simply DONT care if MU do the treble or quadruple next year, or every year for the next 10 years. MU is soooo over. FCUoM is about passion, commitment, regaining a love for football and being part of a genuine exhilerating revolution. Nor do we care about the glazers, save to be sure not to put a nickel or dime in their pockets. You may love the glazers for themselves, or the personal gain you get out of them, but move on. We are not interested in your rants, your alleged concern for us, your hatred of FCUoM, the current level we are playing. Call us whatever you like, cos we dont care. You are pathetic. All I now expect is some ludicrous ad hominem slurs about me or what you think I do, or where I live. That is all you can ever come up with, personal insults. You are a joke, it is amusing to see you commit so much time to spouting off your drivel. FCUoM is here to stay
Tommy,
230 years is a long time and of course we have let it go as we are the best of allies! but...when are you and Malcolm going to let go? 500 days? 3, 5, 10 years ?? when? lighten up fella's! your spouting off is making me detest Glazer even more everyday,
So JJ you flatter yourself that I need to resort to insults. My vitriol only follows yours and the likes of James who had to go all the way to Cardiff to draw his "conclusions". I would put money on it that the closest he got to Cardiff was Sky One and is probably a pseudonym of Fickle Red. Proof (as determined by Fickle Red, the guy who never goes to games from Tunbridge and the Yorkshie Chippy) is that I have never seen "James" post anywhere before. Plastic Judge eat your plastic heart out.
George. I am not anti American and neither am I anti genuine FC fan. What I am opposed to is the pious nonsense that is spouted by the like of Walsh and his camp followers who seek to justify their desertion of United as some form of search for the Holy Grail. Its not as has been stated nany many times. Face it Glazer is a capitalist whose interest is money (big surprise) but he will service that through success at United or he will fail. Hard to belive this but a long line of capitalists both big and small superceeded him. Right from the clubs inception. As he is so driven by money the odds are he and the club will prosper. So by all set up a "Football Manager game" side but don't try and imbue it with an ethos that NO other side has today (ignoring those Victorian Corinthians which is about where Walshs sense of history tilts at).
The MEN's FC site (and other sites for that matter) allow people to write in with their opinions and, if they so wish, retain their anonymity. I think we all agree that this is a good system. (After all, in this day and age, you never know how people are going to react, do you?) However, if we choose to retain our anonymity, we shouldn't be pots calling kettles black. Malcolm seems to think that James of Blackley is Free Red. I think he's almost certainly wrong, but then again, there's no way of knowing. People may choose to post under different names, and that is their prerogative. But it's a little bit hypocritical to sneer at people for using multiple identities if you do it yourself. Even worse is to assume another contributor's identity and wilfully send opinions which are contrary to that particular poster's point of view. The other day someone sent in a post under the name Where's the Prosecution? but presented a point of view which was clearly at odds with Prosecution's previous postings. He even stole Prosecution's phrasing and format. Putting aside for a moment the question of lack of originality, I think we have to agree that doing something like that stinks.
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great comment tommy eric free malcolm red dashny , tampa bradford manchester la la land. you said it all.
What is really strange is that all these impartial passers-by that post on this site always make the same lame arguments that Free Read and Eric the Read have been spouting for months. The Prosecution and Fairtown Dude just to name two (or is it actually one). Contrary to popular belief I really do only post as myself, but I seem to argue with the same person on the same points from under their four different aliases. Me thinks B.S. Detector, Fairtown Fairy and the Prosecution are all the same BS-prosecutin'fairy. Hence refer to as BSPF30 Read.
Trying to be Fair. You will see many examples through these pages of someone or somebodies "borrowing" my name to post clearly contradictory arguments. Of course when that happens the hypocrites here feel that is perfectly acceptable. They even attribute others postings to me by claiming they know its me. For a long long time Tommy and I were deemed to be the same person. Again the hypocrites feel this is perfectly acceptable. All I did was to play the same game back to them regarding James. I do not know or for that matter care if James is Fickle Red or whoever but I felt it worth pointing out the incessant contradictions in their bleatings. A sign of strength is how people accept challenge and debate. While there are intelligent FC posters on here I would say that Fickle Red, Eric the Unhinged, BS Defector to name but three (or could it be two) are not amongst them. That is my assessment. They obviously feel they are on very shakey ground. As vitriol as they say what comes around goes around. Despite the threats from Eric the Unhinged (a Police Van Chaser?) I will attend the AGM as is my right.
Tommy I think the evidence is irrefutable and whilst the approach of the multi posters might be to claim some moral "majority" in terms of the field of ideas they are stuck firmly in the mud of their own contradictions. The chameleon names don't phase me, as I am sure they don't you, its more the paucity of ideas.
How ingenious of you, Tommy to come to the conclusions that you have reached concerning the identity of posters on this site! How shrewd and incisive! How astute and perceptive! Only one problem. You are wrong. I do not feel the need to be "fair" or even try to be, with you and Malcolm. I am firmly and squarely in the FC camp, and can't for the life of me see any point in trying to reason with people like you. You are plants, conducting a malicious and undignified smear campaign and the sooner you clear off, the better.
BSPF 30 Read - Let's examine the facts (feel free to dispute anything but you can't). . . . Your "membership" can not be resold. . . . . .dahtdaht dah! . . . .TRUE!!! . . . Your "membership" entitles you to no monetary return . . .dahtdaht dah . . . TRUE . . . . .You cannot pass your membership on to your grandkid . . . .dahtdaht dah . . .TRUE!! . . . . .You only can "vote" on what the board proposes you can "vote" on . . . .daht daht dah . . TRUE. . .
. . .. The general Manager and the board make the decisions regarding everything FC except what they decide you can vote on . . . .TRUE . . .. . Any member can be expelled at any time and all they have to do is say they are crazy . . .. TRUE . . . Who decided and voted on Andy becoming the GM but the board !!! . . .. TRUE . . . . The board can call a meeting with 24 of their friends present . . .. TRUE . . . . Free insurance and salaries for the board and GM decided upon by the board and GM . . . .. TRUE!!. . . . Do the fans run this club . . . .daht daht dah . . . FALSE