Banned

[st06nc2]

Don't know how true this is

Accrington Stanley players banned from using pub and hotel due to 'lack of respect' (From Lancashire Telegraph)

[Redraine]

For eating their butties under the pub canopy! A very snooty Cheshire hotel. A non story!

[AsFc62]

what a crock of s**t.....

[cashman]

Exactly, tripe of the highest order. mind i dont expect the L.E.T, to check things out.

[cmonstanley]

Lol free butties all round at the greyhorse lol

[Mr T]

I was hoping this was about "Somerset" who has been banned!!

Lazy, lazy reporting!

During Feb 14 ASFC receiced at call about some players in Red tracksuits bringing in pre-purchased drinks into the Windmill Pub (bear in mind Morecambe, Wrexham and numerous others use the parking point).

I asked for this to be put into an e-mail to me so I could pass it to the the Manager ( James Beattie) STILL awaiting this e-mail.

On the Friday prior to the Torquay away game we agreed to pick up players from there, but nobody used the premises as we were away until after the Pomey game. I rang to pub on Thursday to warn them I still hadn't had the e-mail and the players wouldn't be using the pub. 5 minutes before the coach arrived at the pub I received an extremly abusive phone call from the mamager saying our players were no longer welcome at his pub.

Since that day in Feb 14th ASFC haven't ever used that pub as a pick up or drop off point.
As Coley rememeber today the last time he was there was Aldershot away; the same day Proccy went on loan to PNE!!

As I say lazy reporting

[cashman]

The L.E.T. has become a complete waste of space,used to be a half decent newspaper, long ago.

[anmc]

Cheshire may be "posh" but the grammar is terrible.

[RainbowSix]

Eventually it will be the pubs loss, if players used the pub they would have made money, if the fans used the pub because the players were also there they would have made money.

Now they will just not be making money from the players or the fans.

Their loss.

[wadey]

Pub BANS four football teams - Bury, Rochdale, Accrington Stanley and Stalybridge Celtic - Manchester Evening News

[Chewbacca]

It is juts the picking up point off J19 on the M6 and teams on he banned list still use it. There is the lane where the garage is where they all park up and then the coach waits on the road where the pub is.

The pub has little to do with it except it is there, it would be used as a picking up point whether or not the pub existed as there is parking near a motorway junction and it is convenient for the sub-regional city centres of Manchester and Liverpool, even central Lancashire where teh majority of the players ten to live. I doubt any fans used it as for your trips south when it is used it is far too close (40 mins from Accy on a good run).

I doubt banning the teams will have much of a detrimental effect on the pubs income as the issue seems to be that money wasn't being spent, and players aren't going to be ordering double single malts on the way to a game. The Landlord has every right to ban who he wants (particularly if he phoned up and was fobbed off with 'put it in an email' by a Stanley employee) but going to the papers is pathetic.

[Exile on Spencer St]

This non-story says more about newspaper 'journalism', and explains why fewer people are wasting money on buying them.
I think it was perfectly reasonable for Mr.T to ask the pub owner to put the complaint in writing, otherwise he'd be spending all his time running around every time someone picked up a phone to moan. It's standard practice.
But reprinting 'stories' from years ago (is their any date mentioned in the LET article?) is one of the oldest media tricks in the book. The Daily Moan does it all the time, and readers immediately think it's only just happened.
Let's get back to football rather than swallow old gossip that newspapers now peddle as 'news'.