Accrington Stanley.

[dougdeep]

And Hereford, what bastards sent them down?

 

[Gully]

Hoping that FGR avoid the drop, next season it will be them Hereford, Exeter and Torquay all in the same league, should make for some interesting games.

 

[Bwian]

And Hereford, what bastards sent them down?

The useless tits playing for them all season?

 

[Strike]

Northwich Victoria and Glossop North End.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Newport County.

A late run has delivered survival in the Conference South this season.

 

[Juan Albion]

Caerleon am byth

 

[Crawley Cobbler]

How can you return somewhere you've never been?

This Accrington Stanley was formed in 1968, six years after the previous one died - they've never been in the Football League before.

 

[Goring Gull]

well done

 

[Leekbrookgull]

You could be right,Crawley. I think the original Stanley,took their name from a boys club on Stanley Street in Accrington? Which ever way well done.

 

[Brovion]

How can you return somewhere you've never been?

This Accrington Stanley was formed in 1968, six years after the previous one died - they've never been in the Football League before.

I think that's a whole debate on what constitutes a football club. If it's just a corporate collection of share certificates etc then yes, 'Accrington Stanley' have never played in the League before. If however a football club is the embodiment of people's hopes and dreams and a chance to get together and feel pride in their community then yes, Stanley are returning to the League after an abseence of more than 40 years.

Obviously I support the latter view. If you take the view that when a club goes bust and reforms it loses the right to have any link with the previous company then there are a lot of brand-new clubs in the League - Leicester and Bradford City being two that spring to mind. My own favorite non-League team. Bradford (Park Avenue) were kicked out the League in 1970 and went bust in 1975. The current club wasn't re-formed until 1988, a gap of 13 years. The fans had kept the name alive with a Sunday League team and the new 1988 club believes, correctly, that it is a re-incarnation of the original Bradford club.

As fatbadger says it's the fans that keep a club alive regardless of the continuity of the records at Companies House.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I think that's a whole debate on what constitutes a football club. If it's just a corporate collection of share certificates etc then yes, 'Accrington Stanley' have never played in the League before. If however a football club is the embodiment of people's hopes and dreams and a chance to get together and feel pride in their community then yes, Stanley are returning to the League after an abseence of more than 40 years.

Obviously I support the latter view. If you take the view that when a club goes bust and reforms it loses the right to have any link with the previous company then there are a lot of brand-new clubs in the League - Leicester and Bradford City being two that spring to mind. My own favorite non-League team. Bradford (Park Avenue) were kicked out the League in 1970 and went bust in 1975. The current club wasn't re-formed until 1988, a gap of 13 years. The fans had kept the name alive with a Sunday League team and the new 1988 club believes, correctly, that it is a re-incarnation of the original Bradford club.

As fatbadger says it's the fans that keep a club alive regardless of the continuity of the records at Companies House.

That man understands the true spirit of football