 Mae'r zesrw쪽 yn ei ddiff yn ei meddwl i ddodd, ond mae'n gwybod ei ddiforol. Ar y gallwn, mae hwn ar y bwysig, mae'n dd strongly yn amlwg, rydyn ni'n ffникаud ddaw. Fy drweud i gweithio chi'n ddwy'! Dydyn ni'n clyw geisio am y Cymru, yng Nghaerdd Llywodraeth iDeuensyddol. Roedd i'n ddysgu'r cyfle o'r cyfle o'r llaw ar gyfer maen nhw i'n Myth Gwllodraeth, mae'n gwybod i'n ddydd yn fynd i'n ochr eu bod yn ffawriff yn hynodol, Dwi'n meddwl i'r unrhyw hwnnw, y Ffwrdd Ffwrdd, sy'n meddwl i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r Magistor. Felly, rwy'n gydag i'r ysgolion i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r Ffwrdd. Rwy'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r Ffwrdd i'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'r holl hwnnw i'r ffordd i'r holl hwnnw i'r gweithio. Rwy'n credu, nhw'n nhw tynnau gwirionedd taethau yn unrhyw agơ recording dryer CasparINAUDIBLE, felly acid o'r firgydd، fel rwy'n ymgyrch Rwy'n edrych i'ch gwybeth o gyngor i'n fawr iawn, rwy'n amgylchedd ar y gwybeth. Roedden iawn i'r hyn i'r contributed sydd wedi'u gorfod. Fe oedd identifiedd y cwmniad, i'r centioned agor, am eu gwybeth, i'n rhoi'n edrych i'r paid sydd wedi'i digwydd, ac mae'n ddweud i'r llunio i'r llunio o'r grwp maen nhw, i'n cymdeithasol i'n grwp a'u ganes yn gweithio, ac mae'n cael ei gŵn ymarhau sydd yn ymhygau. Mae'r ffordd yn ymdau'r ysgol yn ymddangos, a'r ffordd yn ymdau'r ffordd. Rwyf wedi'i gydag o'r ffordd yn ymdweud o'r ffordd. Rwyf wedi gweithio'r ymdweud o'r ysgol, ond y ffordd yn ymdweud o'r ffordd, mae'r ffordd yn ffordd yn ymdweud o'r gymaint. Fodd y dywylliannol mwy yw ymdweud o'r ffordd. Rwyf wedi'u mewn mwy o â'r ffordd, ac rwyf wedi'i gweithio'n mwy o'r ffordd. Rwyf wedi'u gweled o'r ymdweud o'r ffordd yn ymdweud o'r ffordd. Rwyf wedi'u gweled o'r ffordd o'r ffordd yn ymdweud o'r ffordd. Mae'r drayf ar gwell, mae'r mwy o'r ffordd, ond mae'r ffordd yn ymdweud o'r ffordd yn iawn. Mae'r eich gwaith ymwneud eich cw儿tyn papren o'r £20 hefyd. Mae'r tyfan yn gweithio bod yn gweithio, os ond wedi tyfn y cefnod, ac mae'n fath o'u codi wahanol ym 22 hefyd. Mae'r fath o'r wyfach, o ran yn Ynglyn Gwyrd o'r casfau yma ni, oedd y cyfnod ylai'r pwyllgor i Manchester, ac yw digwydd yn y cyfnod yn £20 eich shefyd. Mae'r gweithio'r gwaith yn y gynhyrch yn ffordd yn fawr, ond rydyn yn rhan i'r fawr i'r grante. Bydd yna'r cyddraeth hynny yn y torff ac yn y barath, ac Jimi Hill yn y cydwyr, ddim yn gweithio'r gwaith, ddim yn gweithio'r gweithio'r gwaith, ac mae'n gweithio'r gwaith yn y gweith, ac mae'n gweithio'r gwaith yn y gwaith yn gweithio'r gwaith yn gyfrifio'r gwaith. Ond o'ch wneud bod gwrthodol, mae'n gweithio'r gwaith yn gweithio'r gwaith, felly mae wedi bod yn chweithio i'n ddoesol iawn i'w eiddo i'r hyn o ein anoddau arfer. Diolch i'n rhaid i wnaeth ar gyfer sydd gyda'r dyfodol. Ond mae ydy'r llyfr yw'n gennym. Yma, yn ges weithio i ddweud o grfasedd o'r bodle Andy, David, ac yn y bwrthens. Yr hyn o gweithio i'r canfod o'r fanllant, a phan yw draw o fanllantau, a bod hynny'n golygu i'r Ffasien ac y ffaith yw'r rhai beth? Mae'r ffaith yn wneud, gwrl yw ddechrau a wneud amdiolulodau ac rydych yn amlion eich cyfnodd i ffostaf cael mewn golygu'r ffaith wahanol neu sydd ymweld yr adonion wnaeth eu gweithio'n cilio'n gweithio, a'r tradd iynebu llynuol yn ei ddweud, ac yn ysgawr y gwaith gennaeth wedi dod i gyfel'r ddweud, mae'r gwaith ymddirellt yn lle o'r llwyddau yn gennymoli, ac mae'n ddweud o'r gwaith yn y brifysgolau'n gyfwng arweudio ar gael y gafael. Telliwn i gyd yn gallu trefnod, mae'n lle i'r gwaith, ac mae'n lle i'r arwein o'r corwbwysig, On that note, I'm going to hand over to Russell Gill, head of membership at the Co-Operative Gill. I'd like to add my welcome to your fantastic venue to be holding this reception. Within a couple of weeks of this museum opening, I was there twice. Firstly to bring my son to open his eyes to 1970s football cards and some UTO. ac gweld dweud yndyn ni'n gwneud o gael ffartig ymweld o'r ffordd i'w ddechrau'r gweithio. Rwy'n dechrau bod ein ffordd yw y ffordd i'w ddechrau, a fyddechrau'n greu'r ffordd i'w ddweud. Felly, eistedd yn Manchester, ar Y Corbwchiff Unigth, rydym yn ddechrau'r ffordd i'r ffordd i'w ddweud ar y cwrdd. Aeth yn yr adolf ystafell, yn y ddweud i'r gwir, yn y ddweud i'r ddweud, yn y ddweud, yn y cwrdd yn y ddweud i'r ysgawr, Fodd fel wedi sylun dros hwn o hunain a phrygaf, rwy'n dweud dwi'n fawr y maen nhw'n gweithio bod gennych yn byw i Llywodraeth. A rydyn ni'n ymddangos ar gyfer Llywodraeth, dwi'n ddifwyddio i gwbl o'r Llywodraeth o Llywodraeth ac i'r hoffi am hyn o'r gyfer Llywodraeth i gynghwysbyn deall gwom iddyn nhw, ac i ddechrau i Llywodraeth i Gweinio, Calech chi'n dweud yw'n medrwyddor cwpio ardennwys? Fel y gallwn y fyddialaeth sy'n meddwl chi'n meddwl chi'n meddwl i'r doorsodau yw ysgrifennu a'r ddiwrnod mlynedd yn y couldwyd lle i'r ddweud. Roeddwn i ni, mae cyn egweithio a'r dweud yn eu bodyn i'n meddwl wedi bod yn vindwad o'r bwysigedd am y troogedau a'r ddweud cyfyrddol yn y prifoedd pa w accused. Ardoedd yn cyfieithiaf, ac mae'n meddwl sy'n meddwl ar ein bod cyfroedd bwysigio ar hyn. a hefyd tra nobarnau gwirio hanon wedi dledig y potrriwn digon. Figen pan popeth am hyn leaders sylfa'nnghymudd, ac mae'n dweud bod os oedol, oherwydd mae'n groes sylfa, wedi mynd i amser y Ο'r felly awl scriptsomeau y tra bofyn nhir grants. Felly mae'r modd yn ymwyl sy'n gweithio sydd yma yn eich gweithio i fynd iawn, yn y rhai falch, ond y mynedd dwy� iawn, i'n gweithio a'u sydd mewn g gan eich sgwysig ymddangodol a'r ysgwrs sydd i'n gweithio'r oedd. Rydym wedi ddweud yr Ystod Cymru yn ymddangosol. Ym hyfforddiad ymddangosol ymddangosol, i'w f embarkwys ymddangosol i'r llyth. Mae'n de allas ac yn roi wedi ymddangosol i'r unig ac mae'n gweithio ychydig i'w cyflwyno'n cyffredinol o'r cyfun yn cael eu cyflwyno ar gyfer cyflwyno. Yn eich cyffredinol, dyna'n gweithio'n gweithio. Wrth gwrs, dyna'n gwneud y cyfle, a'i gael gwaith gyda'i gyrchon gwybod gan hynny a'r gweithio'n gwybod gyda'i gwybod gyda'u cyflwyno'n cyflwyno. Ien nhw'n ar y cynllun yma gan hwnnw'n oedden nhw'n sefyllfa, yn yr unig o fewni ar gael cyfnod, ar dîm nid o'n cyfnod o'r gwaith rallaf y gynnig o unig o edrydd i'w ddweud, ac mae'n ddwy'n gweithio bod ddweud o'r ddaeth yn cyd-dreifio a'n cerdd a ddeifasiodd ym hwn o'r ddewagaid. Mae'n gweithio i'n cyd-dreifio i'r llef, mae'n ddewen gweithio ar gael cyfnod, wedi'i ddweud ei ddweud o'ch cyd-dreifio, er oed y gallwn iawn i'n bwysig i bobl, a'r bobl i'r bwynt ychydig ar fan. Mae'n fyw i'ch gweinio o'r rhan oherwydd theodag y gwleidiau di'w fath oherwydd gallu i mewn gwahanol o ddiweddau, ac oherwydd mae'r ddiweddau deilhau o'r dweud oherwydd mae'ch gweinio am gweinio i eu cydnod 시ddiant i fath o'r trefwny. Mae'n i'n meddwl i'ch chi gael y gwaith ymddiannall eich fath i lawr i'r fath o'r gweinio, A gwaith i'w ddiogelai'r cael ei wneud a'i blaenau i ddeithunio eich cyffredinig o'r dweud ac yn'w ddweud i'w ddod i gwasanaeth digon o'r ddaw i gael y ddweud o'r ddweud.之ai'n gweithio griffyn ychydig yma, dvych i ddrifwng yn y dddangas, oedd yn ei wneud i ddwyllfa o'r ddweud o'r ddeithun i'w ddwyllfa ddweud. Mae'r cwm reapelau'n ddysguêl i'r dweud i'r dda.noch, nid oeddwn i arall i ddim os ydym yn ei gwybod mewn gyda'r ddweud i'r dweud i'r ddweud wahanol yn unrhyw i'r ymddangos. Ac nid oed â'r dda, eich cofrinsiu'n ddweud i fynd i ddweud wedi ble y cofrinsiu'n ddweud o'r ddweud. Felly, cyhoedd y cyflwyno yma yw'r fforddau o'r cyflwyno. Mae yna gymhreithiau pawb yn barod ar gyfer pryd y llyfr, y gallwn i'n edrych i'r amdano i'r awnig i'r cyflyniad, ac mae'r fforddau fforddau a'r cyflwyno ar ôl i ni ar hyn. Yn gyflym, mae'n rhiwgr yma'r fforddau sy'n llyfr yn y dda. yw'r lle i'r cynyddiant gyfer Andy yma. Mae'r ffaint o'r rhaid i'w'r wath. Mae'n cyfrifio ar 175 ysgolwyr wedi bod yn blynedd yn ymgyrch. A'n meddwl 32 ymgwrs sy'n ddwylo'r llwyddiadau yn y Uned, felly mae'n gweithio'r ffiyliadau ei bod yn sgolw'r ddwylo. A'r tyn nhw'n gwybod ymlaen. Yn ymwneud yma, mae'n gweithio'n eu pwysig o'r bwysig. Mae'n gweithio'n 10 o'r llwyddiadau lleol i'r llwyddiadau yn ysgolwyr. We've expanded our leadership to Europe, where we now have a presence in 20 or so countries, and we've received new funding streams from the European Commission. For the first time ever, the membership of our family, our cooperative football family within SD, has tipped through 300,000 members in the UK, which is an incredible statistic, I think. And also we've played a very important and central part to the government's review of football governance in this country. And again, I think that is ample recognition of the increasingly important role that supporters can play in making not only football, but wider society, this now has 22 values of cooperation. Now, none of this would have been at all possible without the support of the cooperative group. And I want to extend my personal thanks to Russell and to the group for the support they've shown us. A year or so ago, SD was in quite a tricky position in terms of its funding. And as Russell has alluded to, it's when you are in those positions that you find out who your friends really are. And I think it's a massive testament to the support that the cooperative group has given this organisation that they were able to step in and to continue to support what we've done as an organisation. So my heartfelt thanks to Russell and to the cooperative group and to everyone who has played a part in supporting us over the last year. The only other thing I need to do is to introduce Andy Walsh, who's somebody who probably doesn't need an introduction in these parts. A long-time campaigner supporter of Manchester United and now obviously an inspirational leader, general manager of FC United of Manchester, which is a success story not only in terms of what it means to the cooperative group, but also for me in how a football club can be run based on positive community values can be successful in doing just that. So I'm delighted to hand over to Andy to say a few words. Andy Walsh, you've got to be building now, I suppose. Firstly, a Manchester welcome to Manchester, not just from me, but also from the pissing rain outside. I'd like to especially thank you just to let you know that New Yorkers aren't the only ones who can have a swim on the streets. So I really want to say a big thank you to Supporters Direct for giving us the opportunity to talk about FC United tonight. All of you who follow a football club will not need any invitation to talk about your football club, and I've got a magnifying people standing in front of me who can't go anywhere, so thank you very much for that. I just want to rest first on some of the things that David and Brian have said there and just allow you to drink that in. 12 years ago Supporters Direct was established with a target of setting up 30 supporters trust, just 30. We've now got more than 30 football clubs owned by supporters in 12 years. That is incredible. And then there are over 300,000 people David has done who are members of those trusts. That is unbelievable statistic. People who tell us that fans can't run football clubs will look around football. There's plenty of business people who haven't got the clue about running football clubs, who are causing problems that we're having to pick up the pieces from. We're now, as Supporters Direct, as Supporters Groups, because it's not just about fans' trusts. It's not just about supporter owned clubs. It's about fan groups as well. It's great that the links that we've fought to maintain with other Supporters Groups are still there. Malcolm Clark said tonight from the Football Supporters Federation, all the independent Supporters Groups around the country who are working together. And that's not easy, because let's face it, football is as much about decline as it is about putting things between us as well. The rivalries within the game are just as important as they are standing here talking about what unites us as football fans. The fact that we can hold that together is a real threat to the establishment. And that's one of the reasons why the Premier League took a pot that Supporters Direct, a short time ago, is because we're bringing them on some reckoning. That one of the biggest crashes in the game was sports with a Premier League club. And he was going to rescue it, the fans were going to rescue it. David being a glory boy just nipped in and got the top job of Supporters Direct just in time. So just to finish the virtuous circle, he was there just as he was on the... Just as sports was on the slide, he's going to be there. Just as sports was top that goal and then they're going to be the supporter-owned model further up the Pyramid for any other supporter-owned club. But we have got supporter-owned clubs in the Football League. There's Exeter and Wimbledon. But also William have just gone back in to support around the ship because not being a supporter-owned ship didn't fit. To be fairfully frank, not being a supporter-owned ship shouldn't fit with any football club. It should be the supporters. The first thing the director says when they go on the board is, I've been a supporter of this football club all my life. I'm not standing for intellectual people. I'm just going to be here because I have the right to be here because I've got a bit of cash where I've got a mate on the board is in fact here. What are you frightened of? If you want to represent this football club and you want to be custodian of the football club that me, my family and generations of my family have supported all our lives, what have you got to hide? Stand for election. But they won't. They try and tell us there's other reasons why they won't do it. And the real reason is they've not really got the interests of the football club at heart for many of them. Many of them are there just for their own personal ego, certainly at the top of the game or their own personal enrichment. There are many, many, many hundreds of directors further down the pyramid who are struggling to keep their football club alive. And I would say to them, what have you got to lose? Turn to no supporters. It's a story from the 1960s when Lou Edwards told Matt Busby that he was going to have a share issue all shattered. And Busby said, well, who's going to buy the shares? He said, well, I've got friends around the North West, business people who want to put money into the club. He said, well, are these people United fans? He said, well, I don't know. He said, well, there's thousands of United fans out there, tens of thousands of United fans out there. You've told them that Manchester United needed money. They threw money over the wall. They wouldn't need shares. That's our relationship. That's the fans' relationship with the game. It's not about having a share in the club and then delivering some kind of personal ego at some later date. It's because you care about the club. The backdrop to this event tonight and supports Direct and the fans' movement is the game that's in deep financial crisis. A game that's generating more cash than it's ever generated before but is wallowing in more debt than it's ever had before. Three and a half billion pounds in the professional game. Three billion pounds of the debt in top 20 clubs in the Premier League. 14 of those 20 clubs are not even trading at profit. That's supposed to be the biggest league in the world. One of the richest leagues in the world and they can't even trade at profit and they tell us we don't know what we're talking about. There's been over 60 consultancy events since the establishment of the Premier League. So it's not just that they're causing a problem at the top of the game. They're also causing problems right away through the professional game. Forget, I don't know the numbers for those number of non-league clubs that have gone through insolvency events. Over 60 out of the 92 professional clubs. Some clubs have gone through insolvency events two or even three times. It's an absolute scandal that if it was happening in any other industry there'd be a public inquiry and there'd be government action. But, and I think this is a very useful rosette for us to wear. Last general action, all three main parties said they need to do something about the goodness of the game. And all three parties said that one of the solutions was getting the fans involved in the game. So we have made headway. We have made huge headway within the goodness of the game and we're making headway now also. Politically. But the alternative to those of you here is obvious. The alternative to the basket case and the casino economy that the plenty of league clubs operate in. The alternative is for supporter of clubs. Clubs that are centered on the fans. Clubs that are focused on the communities. Clubs ensure that our clubs. That's what they were when they were first established where everybody was involved and had an equal say in the way the game was actually governed. And what that was, SC United, painful establishment in 2005. Very difficult decision for us at that time. But we felt that we had no alternative if we didn't agree with the glazed business model at Old Trafford. Then we couldn't keep putting money into it to then sustain it. So we took a decision, we took a strike. A strike of finance. I still count myself as a Man Unite fan. I'll be a Man Unite fan till the day I die. But I ain't giving those people my money. I'm not going to allow my money to be used to sustain their business model which I know ultimately is going to put a great burden on the football club that I care about. I could just go up the pub and watch up and tell him. I could go walking in the lakes. But I chose along with a few thousand other people to actually establish something which will be a reminder to those who run the game that there is an alternative. An alternative that stands in reflection against what they are trying to create. An alternative that puts fans first. Puts the community in the sense of everything we've done. We are a community benefit society. We're a co-op. The same support is direct. Legally, constitutionally, we have to put the community first. We have to put our community benefit before we put a winning team out on the pitch. And the way we've played the last couple of weeks, that's plainly obvious really. We're a not-for-profit organisation and we're an organisation that operates on one member, one vote. We argue like cats and dogs about the direction the club's going to go in. What we're going to do, how we're going to do things. He said this, I don't agree with what she said. That goes on in the football club. We've gone on in every football club. We've gone on in every house and every business and every organisation up and down the country. The real thing I'm proud about is that we can do it in our football club and that when we do it in our football club we do it with a purpose because people care and people can actually make a difference. And that difference that we've made has seen us now how membership in excess of 3,300. We've got average gates of 2,000. We've got seating tickets in excess and we've got seating ticket numbers you can see in the professional game. Over 1,100 people have seen ticket holders. And that's one of the... That again is one of our proudest achievements over the last few years. It's three years ago as the economy was taking its dive. With the discussion that's brought me about what we're going to do about seating prices our target always was to give people three free matches a season. So 168 quid it would cost to give one of our gates over a season to get your seating ticket of 104 quid. So we decided to put forward a proposal that you pay what you can afford. The minimum price for seating ticket was set at 90 quid which was our concession price and then beyond that you pay what you can afford. The average price paid for our seating ticket that first year went up from 140 quid to 160 quid. And it's still above 150 quid three years later. Why? Because like that was to be set in the 1960s you'd tell the fans you need money the fans will throw money over the wall. And that is what fan ownership means. It means empowering people to make a difference in their football club. Wams, if you don't pay us more than what we would have charged before well that's their vote on what we're doing. That's also letting us say that they can't afford to pay that. Now he still pays us the same price of what his seating ticket was at Old Trafford. Every time the glaze is put up his seating ticket price in case stands he increases how much money he puts into our club every year. But it's not just about the seating tickets. Our community work as I said is essential to our constitution. We've revamped that work over the last few years and we've doubled the turnover on our community at community activities year on year for the last three years. 2009, 10, 47,000 pounds worth of community work in Great Manchester. 2011, 1,001 pounds. And this year our accounts to go before our AGM in a fortnight we've done in excess of 200,000 pounds of the turnover in the community. This is for a football club and it's all the activities only turns over £700,000 anyway and we're doing another £200,000 on top of that. That again is the strength of support and ownership that's focused on what football can achieve in the communities. Yes, professional football clubs run very good community schemes but this is a lovely club that's seven years out of the ground that's now got partnership across Great Manchester. We've got a very small full-time team supported by a huge array of volunteers up to 300 people 10% of our membership volunteer for the club at any one time over a 12 month period and we're creating jobs. We've got seasonal cultures working for us we've now started to employ more people on the community side of things and next week we're interviewing for a cultural warden there to go on work in secondary schools and primary schools. At the AGM we're about to announce that we're taking off our youth development programme into new areas as well and we've got our partnership in Manchester College where we're developing new youth team opportunities. All of this without a home all of this where we've been lodging at Ig Lane and we've been trying to get our plans for a ground of our own going now for five or six years so it's had its difficulties we've had one site where we've had a planning permission spent a quarter of a million quid getting a planning permission ripped us from under this after the government spending review didn't allow the city council to take that project forward we've now got another site in North Manchester that's been challenged at the moment legally it's a £5 million development of which we've raised in excess of £2 million quid so as all that's been going on on the field all the community work we've been doing has raised in excess of £2 million quid in seven years to actually bring that that development forward and we've had support from the Sport England Football Foundation the City Council, the college who also agreed to give money into the scheme why? Not because of the United Fund certainly not in the city council's case they're all city-seeking ticket holders most of them are blowing it anyway not even born in Manchester but these individuals these politicians and people from all these grant funding bodies have put money into our scheme or promised money into our scheme because they can see not just what we've done so far but what we can do as a group not just from FC United but as supporters in terms of creating a dynamic that will make a real difference in our communities where we can actually use football for a positive benefit for our communities and it's those elements really that bring us together because if you look at any football league anywhere in the world that league would tell you that the game ain't about winning because the majority of teams in any league whether it be at parks, on the 9s or whether it be the Premier League any league the majority of teams fails to win the majority of their games top 9, 10 teams they'll win more games than they lose or draw everybody else fails to win the majority of their games it's not that winning so why the hell do we do it some of you have watched games and I bet your fondest memories of matches are probably defeats rather than victories because that's what buys you together some of you might be looking enough to have a bit of glory and win a trophy or two but that's not the case for the majority of supporters so why do we do it it's because it's in our DNA it's because it's what defines us football's what defines us our club that we follow defines us the clubs that we don't follow also define us because we also like to define ourselves by who we don't support and who other people support but even look at that two of the most recent found own clubs are Chester and Wrexham two clubs who've got lifelong generations long animosity towards each other now a few miles apart flying and flying the support ownership Wrexham and Chester both looking to raise funds through a community share scheme to actually improve the facilities for their clubhouse I'll tell you what else defines us we're not those people who run Premier League clubs we're football fans who care about our football clubs because there are football clubs we care about the game because it's our game we're not there for personal enrichment we're not there for personal ego we're there because we care about the game and the football fans as we all know and as you'll see on the quote upstairs football without the fans just isn't football thank you so much, cheers