A deserving case...

Sparkologist · 19-12-2005, 18:55

Whilst perusing the online sports pages of the Daily Telegraph, I came across this little article. I thought I'd share it with you: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...9/ixfooty.html

maidstoneaccy · 19-12-2005, 19:04

cheers for that sparkologist a very interesting reed

harwood red · 19-12-2005, 19:08

Cheers for that sparks and cheers to Ricky George for a brilliant write up

And they've put a link to the official site on there too!!!

Diesel · 19-12-2005, 19:12

Quite a good read that, cheers

geoff70 · 19-12-2005, 19:12

c'mon accy !!!best of luck in the new year as well lads and gurls

Bazf · 19-12-2005, 22:00

Should forward it to the Observer, show them how you should write about our club.

Doug · 19-12-2005, 22:17

I enjoyed that, something I feel that can be built on locally as well as nationally. Maybe the area will be a little less depressed if people can begin to learn to take pride in the efforts of the club and a hand full of die hards. Perhaps this is the first example of the staring of a once and future giant.

Wynonie Harris · 19-12-2005, 23:02

Great article, thanks for that, Sparkologist. Just one factual error - Stanley were not the first Football League club to be unable to fulfill their fixtures. That dubious honour went to Wigan Borough who resigned from the league on October 26th, 1931 (and just look where their successors are now!).

I like the idea of "Stanley - The Movie". I reckon the bloke who plays Ken, the landlord in Early Doors would be perfect for the part of Eric!

garinda · 19-12-2005, 23:07

Who'll play Coley in the film?

Would Ricky Tomlinson shave off his beard?

My arse he would.

Good article.

MichiganRed · 20-12-2005, 02:37

Thank you very much for posting the link. I thoroughly enjoyed that article.

ossy kid · 20-12-2005, 04:17

A great article, some errors but certainly a good read.

Jimbo T Hornblower · 20-12-2005, 06:21

I wonder if this is the result of what Rob mentioned earlier this week about the press taking more interest... I bet it is..

Jimbo T

blower

Henry Morton · 27-12-2005, 00:07

Ricky George has been a wonderful friend of Non-League Football for many years, and has always been generous toward Accrington Stanley in his DT column.

One week before his recent article in praise of Stanley (which, of course I cut out and saved !) he wrote an even more interesting piece about the recent history of Maidstone United.

Maidstone's historic parallel with Stanley is quite astonishing.

Check it out !

MikeA · 27-12-2005, 10:17

Good article, Henry. Ricky George always writes good stuff.

Here's the link: http://sport.telegraph.co.uk/sport/m...2/sfnfav12.xml.

maidstoneaccy · 28-12-2005, 16:44

cheers for the link henry morton, i have mentioned the similarity between your home town and mine in the past, but given the choice of watching stanley or the stones it will have to be stanley, who knows perhaps when the stones ground is finished a freindly between the two, what a great opening game it would be for me, and the mighty ultras could show the stones fans how to support their team