It was not like that, however, at Whitby Town this week. There, I had an encounter with a most unexpected football phenomenon: the Whitby Town Ultras. I was at the Turnbull Ground in the magnificently gothic North Yorkshire coastal town on Wednesday to watch the fan-owned FC United as they continued their inexorable march to promotion from the Evostik Northern Premier League. But like many in the 800-odd crowd, the bulk of whom had travelled over from Manchester, my eye was drawn by the gang of some 50 or so supporters crammed together under a section of the covered terrace that ran down one side of the ground. These were the Whitby Ultras.