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Fifty Years Ago: How Accrington Stanley Fell From The Football League
It is probably fair to say that 2012 hasn’t been the greatest year for British football clubs so far, financially speaking at least. Rangers, Portsmouth, Darlington and Port Vale all...
HMRC Go For The Jugular, And The Clubs Only Have Themselves To Blame
The cold air that is whistling through football isn't solely as a result of the recent wintry weather. HMRC are on the move, and their aim is to recoup taxpayers'...
The Fall & Rise Of The Football Collection Tin
The collection tin rattling outside a football ground was, for some years, the clarion call of the truly desperate club. They were at their loudest at Notts County in 2004,...
What’s Bad For Accrington May Be Good For Oxford
The tangled paths that various football clubs weave across each other don’t come much stranger than the ongoing saga of Accrington Stanley and Oxford United. When Accrington resigned their place...
Accrington & The Tax Man
The news that Accrington Stanley have been issued with a winding up order should come as no great surprise to those that watch lower league football that closely. As the...
Accrington, Bury & The Spectre Of Match-Fixing
Sometimes, what happens in football matches seems so bizarre that one can only assume that either a higher force or the sleight of hand of match-fixing has been involved. How...
Accrington Stanley & Ground Grading
One of the more welcome surprises of the last ten years or so was the return to the Football League of Accrington Stanley. The original club bearing that name famously...
Who Are They?
Was there ever a more ridiculous advert than the Milk Council’s “Accrington Stanley” one of the mid-1980s? “Accrington Stanley?”, bellowed a dreadful little Scouse kid, apparently spurred on By Ian...