I’ve lived in Bury for 10 years now & in this time I’d never been to Gigg Lane to see Bury FC play. Well until this Saturday that is… Now that we’ve taken up a sponsorship with Bury for this their 125th Anniversary season frankly I’d ran out of excuses. Saturday was the start of the Football League season & we, my son Ben & I, couldn’t resist the home game against Bournemouth.
Ben & Robbie the Bobbie
What a tremendous experience it turned out to be for both of us. Many thanks were due to Peter Young, Commercial Manager at Bury FC, who kindly had Executive tickets & passes to the ‘Legends Suite’ waiting for us with Lynne at Reception. We had a superb view of a competitive first half that ultimately saw the visitors take a 0-2 lead. Ben was really taken by the Bury mascot, Robbie the Bobbie, & we managed to get a pitchside photo with him at half-time. Although he was a little confused to start with. Ben spent a good amount of the first half trying find out the wherabouts of Bubbles the Bear & Herbie the Hammer! Pretty understandable really considering Ben had only ever been to West Ham before & they are often provide the most memorable performance, certainly in Ben’s opinion & unfortunately sometimes mine.
This won’t be our only visit to Gigg Lane this season. All eyes will be on Tuesday’s cup match versus West Brom particularly with game being broadcast live on Sky Sports… half an eye on the game & half to see whether our pitchside Cuckoo billboard makes an appearance on the telly.
