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The new banner. Will make its debut on Monday against Kendal.
Plain red cotton with various paints for darker materials…
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Crumpsall punchlines…
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Casually dressed and deep in conversation (inane conversation, but it still counts)
FC is all about volunteering. In the spirit of this, FCUM’s Regional Railway Firm will be helping run (I think in aggro speak that would be referred to as “taking”) Course You Can Malcolms on the 25th April. Ey! Ey! Ey! Ey!
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Our Jerome
As if last nights 4-1 win (with 10 men) against Frickley wasnt enough to put a smile on our faces, here is Jerome Wright (and Elbow) all over this rather nice advert for the FA Cup.
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High Praise
http://chrismccannblogging.com/a-mancunian-revolution/#more-80
A nice write up of FCUM spotted on twitter. Not too much new stuff for regulars, but such a glowing report is always nice!
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Mo’ Bag progress
The amount of effort that has gone into this bag, Id better not it forget it on the tram!
You can gradually tell, what it will look like though now…
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Watching Football is not a crime!
Not the first report by Andy Hudson about FCUM on his excellent groundhopping site “Gannin’ Away”, but probably the most important to date. Following on from the FSF event “Watching Football is not a crime” in late February, it takes a closer look at similar topics around police behaviour using FC’s recent match against Buxton as an example.
Filming of innocent football fans is standard in Germany, is that now becoming the case in England too?
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Stitch faster!
Things are slowly taking shape in the sewing department from Rosalind Julia.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rosalind-Julia-Designs/146321545422502
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Impossible to look at without getting this as an earworm…
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Name in lights…
No not “Walk…The…Barrett…Way. Walk the Barrett way” but some new adverts for the Co-op featuring FC (as well as Andy Walsh doing his best Anne Robinson impression). Photos nicked off the unofficial forum (with thanks to The Grand and TR.UnitedAfro for uploading them)
FCUM A.D. Established 2009. Yeah, I know what you are thinking, FC United of Manchester was established in 2005, not 2009. Well here Im talking about FCUM A.D., that is a blog (the very blog you are currently clicking about on) and some (but not all) of the activities documented within.
Whats it all about? Getting off your arse and doing something. Not watching the match in the pub, not even just turning up once in a while to the ground, but dedicating time to pushing things on a notch. Whether its knocking out fanzines, running radio shows, producing banners and choreos for matches or running around town late at night making the walls and lampposts look prettier with football club related stickers, paste ups, graffitis or tags.
The A.D. is short for Art Department, thats vague enough to incorporate plenty. This blog started out concentrating just on the stickers and streetart bit, but it likes to cover other things too. As the Germans would say "blick über den Tellerrand". Is it all Grade A? Probably not, but as Minor Threat sang "You tell me that I make no difference. At least I'm fuckin' trying. What the fuck have you done?" :-D
Supporters not Consumers.
Contact/Feedback: fcum.a.d[at]googlemail.com
