Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I bet Rochdale, Bury and Oldham have all played some great derbies against each other down the years in front of big crowds in the Football League. All of them gone now, that's a pretty big part of Greater Manchester without an EFL club now and, sadly, I think Rochdale and Bury face a real struggle to get back - Oldham might be able to given their history over the past thirty odd years, but there's some pretty big clubs in the National League now and I see Scunthorpe have suffered their second successive relegation.
Wasn’t there some talk of them combining to form a new club Manchester North End? or something equally as daft?

It was around the time that Robert Maxwell wanted to unite Oxford, Swindon and Reading and call them Thames Valley Royals?