Technology-savvy Bury announced at the end of last month that it had partnered with XDI-UK to provide the service to fans, initially for its three home pre-season friendly games.

Gigg Lane goers that had their Bluetooth mobiles activated would receive team news straight to their phones, along with four adverts that the club promised would be beneficial to supporters.

However, according to a statement on the club’s site “of that 800+ devices found, it would seem that not many received any data.”

This was due to supporters missing alerts sent to their phones - alerts that they had to accept to receive the information. It seems that with only 60 seconds to do this, in a boisterous match day environment, the huge majority missed the boat.

A quick check on the club’s site over the weekend for a more recent update revealed that “our Bluetooth system of delivering teamsheets (is) out of action.”

This meant that those watching out for the alerts at Saturday’s game with Brentford would have been disappointed, as will fans that are looking for updates at tonight's home game with Burnley.

All is not lost, however, as “we hope to have the service fully operational in time for the next home game with Morecambe on 23 August 08” the site informed us.

Blackburn Rovers introduced the system, although through a different operator, in January of last year.

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