Football teams - Who are you for?
 

Hi Everyone,
I'm new to the Forum and an ancestor of Oswaldtwistlites. What is the choice of football teams? I must cheer for the boys and the "Home Team".

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Only one choice, Maggie...Accrington Stanley...and don't listen to what anyone else says. I asked you first, so you're ours! ;) :D

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Wynonies spot on one of the "FOUNDER" members of the Football League, n football like it used to be before big money, mind stanley never had any, thats what makes em special.;) even is a link on this site to the club site, have a sneck,

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Saskatchewan Roughriders all the way:dancedog:

And for the other kind of football;) Toronto F.C.

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I'm a lifelong Blackburn Rovers fan

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Oi! Clear off! She's coming up the Stanley with me and Cashy! ;)

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You make it sound almost like a prison sentence.

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No Bernard that would have applied if I'd have been a Burnley fan:D

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It is since Big Sam.:D

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by looking a recent gates you need all you can get, nearly outnumbered by away fans yesterday;)

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Not "nearly", definitely, and so what? We had a cracking day, a good laugh in the pub as always and then a thrilling match which we watched standing on the terraces in a real old-fashioned, traditional atmosphere of camaraderie and good humour...the sort of atmosphere that you don't get in plastic premiership grounds anymore. The sort of atmosphere that's brought Cashy home to Stanley after forty-odd years of watching Rovers (and if you don't believe me, just ask him!).

PS - Have I convinced you yet, Maggie? :D

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That might be saw Wyn but Stanley can't survive on the gates they are getting last home game against Chesterfield only around 1400 including away fans. we live in different times now to the 50s and 60s, when there was no football on TV until MOTD hit the screens, this weekend there will have been 4 FA cup ties, 3 premier league matches, 1 championship match, 2 Scot Prem matches 3 or 4 Spanish matches plus Italian and German all live, and Stanley have to compete with that plus they're in the middle of Rovers and Burnley too,

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the most successful club team in the world.

fact.

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Neither can Burnley or Rovers ;) There's lots more to it than the gate receipts and once Stanley sort out the hierarchy and get the public/local businesses back onside they will stand a better chance :)

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So, you're an expert on Stanley's finances now, are you? Or is it just classic Tory-style smear tactics to try and put a potential fan off? Fortunately, Dave, who like yourself is a non-Stanley fan, takes a more positive, and realistic view!