I have just bought the first ever MFC year book from 1988/89 written by Paul Oldrive I assume some of you will know him as he seemed to do every job going like the Ockers of his time.
The first page reads like this:-
"A season of unrest and ground move"
Three managers and forty two players in a season!! (can any one name the three managers?)
Off the field has been the long running saga of our proposed move from Christie park is a move to primarily secure the long term future of the club, I am sure when the project is complete the knockers will wonder what they are grumbling about"
Then going on to read the statement from the then chairman it is word for word the same as the development which we are about to start building. They had an offer on Christie Park from a retail outlet, wanted to build all weather pitches etc at westgate and they felt that Christie park was to expensive to maintain and without the move the club could not go to the next level.
Twenty years on and it looks like their vision will finally happen.