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Derek Goulding`s tenure as manager ended in June 2006 when he was replaced by
former Southport manager, Liam Watson. The 2006/07 season was Burscough F.C`s
Diamond Jubilee and one of the ways the club marked the event was by playing in a
predominantly white kit with a specially designed badge. The season was one of the
most succesful in history when the Linnets won the Unibond Northern Premier
Division and the Lancashire Co-Op Trophy, formerly the Lancashire Junior Cup, for the
first time in 40 years when neighbours Marine were defeated.
The league success was only confirmed after a thrilling climax. On the last day of the
season the Linnets won at A.F.C. Telford United in front of nearly 6,000 fans. The
victory meant they overhauled the New Bucks Head side at the top of the table and
won the title on goal difference by just 1 goal from Witton Albion. Further success
came when Unibond First Division champions Buxton were defeated 3-1 in the Peter
Swailes Memorial Shield to round off a great season and confirm Burscough as Treble
Winners.
In their first season in Conference North, Burscough finished in 8th position, but
manager Liam Watson and many of the players departed during the close season.
Assistant manager Joey Dunn took over as manager in July 2008, but was replaced by
Andy Mutch at the beginning of October. Burscough finished next to bottom of the
league and were relegated back to the Unibond Premier with Andy Gray taking over as
manager for the start of the 2009-10 campaign.
The season was completed under difficult circumstances after chairman Chris Lloyd
stood down and withdrew all funding. The Supporters Club accepted the raising of
funds to complete the seasons fixtures, and were successful in this objective.
During the close season the ground was sold to Chequer Properties Ltd who in turn
leased the ground back to the football club at a peppercorn rent, the property
company also purchased Chris Lloyd’s majority shareholding, but did not wish to be
involved with the day to day running of the football side of the business, and asked
Frank Parr to return as chairman and form a committee to carry out these duties.
New Chairman Gary Wright appointed at the end of the 2010-11 season to oversee the
temporary move to short lived groundshare with local neighbours Skelmersdale
United before moving back to Victoria Park midwat through the season.
One of Wright's first decisions was to find a replacement for manager Chris Stammers,
who resigned after a poor start to the 2011-12 season, with former manager Derek
Goulding making a return to the club. Goulding started to galvanize the side during the
season, but he couldn’t stop the inevitable, and despite a promising end to the season
the Linnet's were relegated from the NPL Premier division.