One of my values, Barrie, is loyalty to your home town and its people, and that includes the football club. You can interpret the phrase "home town club" in different ways, but yours is a simple case - you were, like myself, born (as far as I'm aware) and brought up in Accrington, therefore you should be showing interest in and loyalty to your home town club, rather than one in the Borough of Trafford, which (again, as far as I'm aware) you have no connection with. You don't even have the excuse that your formative years were in the 60's/70's when Accrington had either no football club, or one at the very bottom of the football ladder. When you were forming your alliances and loyalties, Stanley had an excellent team, well worth supporting.
But I accept that having gone so far down the wrong path, it may be too late to alter this strange infatuation you have with United now. I am, however, prepared to grant you a special dispensation if you adopt Stanley as your second team and come to watch us every now and then. I might even buy you a pint!
