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CYCM (Sat 28th Jan & Sat 4th Feb) - STRAIGHT OUTTA COLIN CROMPTON...

CYCM (Sat 28th Jan & Sat 4th Feb) - STRAIGHT OUTTA COLIN CROMPTON...Dear membs, this is a nosey from the volunteers who help with Course You Can Malcolm.

This football club survives on doing things defiantly. It defies relief that we survived till that first Yuletide logging and it defies relief that 2017 still has our name written proudly within and alongside it. Fighters on the forecourt.

So, so many in the widest of wide football family want us to get up off our part written, part painted, part blank canvas and have a go back. The hope and the longing that we generate in those around our little, casey-shaped hemisphere results in a Solskjaer-solstice of affection for us.

That goodwill has to be mined. Mined by hand. Our hand. Not for a rapacious profit or a build-a-bear-build-a-brand vapidity but for a reclamation of the word love and its honourable, adoring attachment to the word football. Entwined as they should be. A through-ball to belonging.

Our membership is its haemoglobin...but thicker. Much thicker. If Jed ’the red’ Clampett one day was shooting at some food and up through the ground came a bubbling crude, then that crude would be the deepest of scarlet, and it would be our membership knocking its way out into the world. It’s our rich road to relaxing, comfortable in the knowledge that our from-below-talent ensures our survival. The next thing you know old Jed’s made friends not millionaires.

A minuscule, minuscule, minuscule part of that whole process is the latched-on-lauging that Course You Can Malcolm has plonked on us. Malcolmses volunteers are now coming around the membership playground, our arms around each other singing ’Who’s playing war? All girls allowed’ . And ’War’ as in the ICJ banner that just had ’War’ written on it. If we pay the price that the snot-nosed-controllers of football want us to pay then we fail. So we won’t.

Come and put your arms around us. We are asking a favour from our membership...

We have so much talent within us. Or around us in those we know. Our mates/sisters/brothers/mams/dads/neighbours/distant relatives/mates of mates who know mates who are/were in a non-cover band that’s played Night and Day or similar or did something smashing in the arts or literary or performing world that would transfer to stage at Course You Can Malcolm.

All the turns who have played at Malcolmses have come from the above red-thread of our membership knowing smart stuff. Contact us at courseyoucanmalcolm@fc-utd.co.uk and help us. This will not be the last of our mithering. We will vandal-paint you until you relent and give us your red, white and black gold. So give up now and contact us on courseyoucanmalcolm@fc-utd.co.uk as we’ve just said. And if you’re a backstage sort of a grafter then come and graft contacting us on the same address.

War - what is it good for? Absolutely everything if it’s the Welcoming-Armed-Resistance.

Get tapping, get shunting...

Fondests...




First Posted ~ 20:45 Fri 20 Jan 2017
News ID ~ 7272
Last Updated ~ 16:00 Fri 19 Feb 2021