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Started as they will go on and perhaps one of the highlights was Paul Scholes - from Salford, being named as Man of the Match.
Start chasing the rest of you.:D:D:D:alright:

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Just wondering where Mancies 8 home grown young players where though, unless he was thinking of Giggs and Scholes :rolleyes:

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Not sure of the definition of "Home Grown" - honest, does it mean born within the borough where the team play, or taken on as a youngster.
But as i understand it, clubs have to name the squad of 25 soon and 8 of those have to be "Home Grown".
So, how about Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Brown, Amos, Cleverley, Welbeck & Gill?

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Read Mancies post about the mexco game, was saying the team consited of 7 or 8 young home grown talent

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8 "home grown" out of 25 will be no problem for United...but I can think of quite a few teams were it could be a problem..:D

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I see people like you sat in the pubs in Accrington when I come up on a Saturday watching football on Sky Sports. They wear Utd, or maybe Liverpool or Man City shirts or some other plastic premiership side, it doesn't really matter. No pride, no loyalty, no interest in their home town team. Meanwhile, Stanley struggle on with gates of under 2,000.

A shame, such a shame. :(

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As I live in France it is a bit difficult for me to watch any English games except on TV.
I am not aware of any requirement that you must be born in a particular town or city to support the football club of that town or city. Are you suggesting that to support Chelsea you must be born in Fulham?
I also remember the time when Accrington Stanley 1st XI was composed almost entirely of foreigners. Rather than criticise the expatriates why not have a go at the residents - less than 2,000 for a home game? That is the shame.

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No requirement, just a little thing called local pride. As for the Stanley team being composed of "foreigners", I assume you're talking about the Galbraith era. As far as I'm aware, all Stanley players at that time were British subjects, so where were the "foreigners" you refer to? But I take it you had no interest in your home town club even then. As for having a go at the residents, I do it all the time, just ask Jaysay. I'm just casting my net wider at the moment. ;)

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:D times must have changed.. no Burnley or Rovers shirts?.. may have passed you by Wynonie but things like trains, buses, cars (and the odd tram) can get you from Accy to Manchester in under an hour..Utd, Liverpool and City are local teams..this ain't 1891!

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Oh yes, plenty of them, Mancie, and they don't escape my disapproval, either. But, yes, you're right, rapid transport links, the power of big corporate companies, sophisticated facilities, market forces and all that...in fact, I put it to you, Mancie, that premiership clubs are the Tories of English football! ;)

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It's an interesting comparison..the Tories do disregard the sick, the blind, those who are cripples , and some of them end up playing for .. Accrington Stanley :D

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You might not have made that remark if you'd seen them hold premiership side, Fulham at bay for around 70 minutes last season until they somewhat unfairly had a man sent off. Typically, at the end of the match their manager decided the team were far too grand to change and shower in Stanley's changing rooms and they were whisked off to their hotel in true, elitist, Tory fashion.

Mancie, I've been to Old Trafford once a few seasons ago and I do not know how you, as a man of the people, can stomach it. It reeks of smug, self-satisfied, corporate capitalism - a place where all the traditional values of football have been cast aside in the pursuit of mamon.

You can laugh at Stanley, but I take a pride in standing on the terraces of the Clayton End in a real atmosphere with real fans, supporting my home town club.

Just like the Tories, the premiership clubs know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

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Did you get a prawn sandwich ? :D

Man Utd yesterday.. Saturday monring, had a session at Carrington training ground.. over 10,000 came to watch and all proceeds went to local charities.
I do have respect for Stanley.. many a time you would find me weeping in my pint int'u Broadway after tu'Stanley losing..but they are abit like puff the magic dragon.. little boys move on :D

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Little boys may well move on...to the rarified, artificial atmosphere of Old Trafford where they can enjoy the corporate delights therein, along with the citizens of the Home Counties, the Emerald Isle and various other locations far and wide. However, real blokes stick wi' t'Stanley! :D

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Not good enough to be asked to go for a trial at AS but OK for Burnley, same thing for all the AGS boys of the time, not even the reserve Lancashire & England schoolboy keeper was asked to go for a trial - he finished up playing for Blackpool Reserves I believe.
Scots, irish & Welsh are not English, they each have their own leagues and each qualify for the European Championship, European Cup and World Cup - therefore they must be foreigners, certainly in this context.