Bury's finest moments, death diving and sumo wrestlers playing basketball — theguardian.com

1) It has been a devastating week for Bury Football Club. After 125 years in the Football League, they have been expelled by the EFL after a takeover bid collapsed. The club have a rich history, so here are a few choice highlights. Lots of memories from Bury’s promotion to League One last season, but this goal from (centre back!) Eoghan O’Connell is probably the pick of the bunch. On the last day in 2014-15, Bury leapfrogged Southend into third place of League Two with a 1-0 win over Tranmere to secure automatic promotion – here’s the story of that day. Manchester City and Bury are poles apart now, but back in 1998, Paul Butler secured a 1-0 win for The Shakers over their local rivals at Maine Road (City would later be relegated). The season before, Bury secured back-to-back promotions to reach the second tier (for the first time since 1969), with a 2-0 win over Millwall. What an atmosphere at Gigg Lane it was. David Lee: wing wizard. And we can’t seem to find any video footage of Bury’s famous FA Cup wins in 1903 and 1900, but please do comment BTL if you do find any.

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