BURY FC are already top of Division One - and the season hasn't even started yet!
The team are not being measured for performance: it's how fair the club are to smokers.
Forest, the action group for equal rights for smokers, asked every league club about their performance off the pitch in providing facilities for tobacco addicts.
In the "Puffers Paradise" League clubs score points for allowing smoking in various parts of their grounds, and Bury FC score top marks in every department. They would have scored even better but ironically lost out on bonus points for not having NON-smoking areas! If they had, they would have come a clear leader. As it is they share the lead with Middlesbrough, Manchester City, Nottingham Forest and Stoke City. Forest did the survey after Sunderland fans asked them to get involved when the club tried to make stands at their new ground non-smoking.
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