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Colleagues, friends, fans and shareholders.

I simply want to thank you all for the messages of support and goodwill.

I have stepped down from the Club today, and I have given away every single share that I owned in line with my commitment and statements made 3 years ago.

The club is in fine form in many respects, but as always, there is work to be done. I hope we can all support the Directors and our new manager, and above all, our players, as they build on the platform that has already been created.

As I have stated in the short note on the website I cannot adequately describe my love and passion for the club and the town. These are things that will never change, so I hope you will understand that my stepping down is not a departure, simply a change in my relationship with the club.

I also wish to take this opportunity of thanking everyone for their support. I also want to apologise for any mistakes, oversights or mis-steps that I might have made. As Chairman the buck stopped with me and if I am to be applauded for our progress, I must also bear responsibility for any shortcomings.

Finally, a huge and heartfelt thank you to the fans. Please provide Peter Marsden with the patient support you gave to me. I am sure he will be communicating with you in due course with his own plans and aspirations, all of which are going to be in the best interests of the club.

with Warmest regards
Ilyas
 
Rovers fan for my sins...

You sir, are a beacon of light, the Jack Walker of Accrington Stanley.

Transparent, altruistic, honourable and a true fan.

Wish there were more like you in this peoples game
 
Are you joining us standing on the Clayton End tomorrow, Sir? You'd be most warmly welcomed ........

Thank you for everything ...........
 
Ilyas, as one Accy lad to another, thanks for all you've done for our beloved club. Hope I get the chance to meet you again on a terrace somewhere here down south.
Alan.
 
Remembering some desperate moments of sheer emergency in the recent history of Accrington Stanley..
thanks for being there Ilyas when the club needed a friend !!... Sincerely..
 
Thanks for everything Ilyas, good luck for everything in the future and I hope to see you on The Clayton End soon!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) :) :)
 
Thanks for everything you've done Ilyas. We all know we wouldn't be here but for you. Will you be joining us in your mum's stand this afternoon?
 
I can only echo the sentiments shared by fellow supporters

Good Luck in everything you do Ilyas!

Neil
 
Heartfelt thanks for everything you have done.

When we met up at your garden meeting a couple of years ago we could not have envisaged that the club would emerge in these sunlit uplands or what dark days you would have to bring it out of to get there.
 
yerself said:
From the BBC website:
Khan revealed to BBC Sport this week that he had been a victim of racial abuse and had been attacked with stones since he took control of the club in March 2011.


BBC Sport - Accrington Stanley chairman Ilyas Khan steps down

May those involved hang their heads in shame.
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Spot on there yerself, this guy has done nothing but good for Stanley and Accrington, wish there were more people in football like him
 
Yerself - and others. I feel i have to just clarify that there is absolutely NO CONNECTION - NONE WHATSOEVER between the BBC article that appeared a few days ago, and my stepping down from the Chairmanship and distributing my shares.

The BBC article on racism was actually the product of an extensive interview with the BBC reporter many months ago. I had no idea that it would appear on the day it did, and frankly I have my misgivings about the headline which is rather shrill and toneless. Certainly not in line with the usual standards employed by the BBC. The narrative in the body of the article itself is largely fine, so I cant really say too much about the reporter's and editors choice of why they zeroed in on this aspect of the conversation rather than anything else.

Turning back to the matter in hand, the AGM was planned some time back, and my commitment to distribute all of my shares to existing shareholders is now well documented over a 3 year period.

I am sorry that there is a perceived link, but I hope that you will understand that racism is just about the least of my worries at the club or in my personal life, and the article placed a great deal of emphasis on one part of a wide ranging and diverse conversation about many the many positive things that I hold dear in connection with Accrington, the club, and my memories of my beloved home town.

I would just add that I have never felt anything but warmth and support from fans in the ground, and in fact support from the fans has always been almost embarrassingly strong ! I am first and last an Accringtonian and Lancastrian. And proudly so !

with my respectful best wishes to you all,
Ilyas
 
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