But the match was never played. The club was saddled with unaffordable debt and ran out of money, with its parlous situation seeing it kicked out of the football league in the summer of 2019. Since then Bury FC has not played a game, leaving fans in the town in mourning.
As the Onward think-tank highlights this week, football is a huge part of many Northern communities. There are more professional football clubs in the North, per capita, than anywhere else in the country: one for every 457,000 people compared with 1.03 million in the South East.
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