Bury FC was expelled from the English Football League after financial difficulties and failed takeover bids.
At close to midnight last night, the lights went out at Gigg Lane, the sign which reads Bury Football Club plunged into darkness one final time.
That fixture will not happen. Not on Saturday, not ever. Bury football club as we know it, as this town has known it for the last 134 years, will not play again.It read:"The EFL met and, after a long and detailed discussion, determined that Bury FC's membership of the English Football League be withdrawn after the deadline passed at 5pm today without a successful resolution."
There will also be debate about the dispersion of money in football. Within 15 miles of Bury are Manchester United and Manchester City, two of the richest football clubs in the world. Could they have done more to help, and should they have done? Can we expect one football club to bail out another just because they can afford to?
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