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Accrington Stanley Football Club is an English football club based in Accrington, Lancashire.
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Accrington and Stanley
The town's other famous association is with Accrington Stanley F. C., the butt of many ( largely affectionate ) jokes.
Coincidentally, one of the teams relegated — and thus being replaced by Stanley — were Oxford United, who were voted into the Football League to replace the previous Accrington Stanley.
Accrington Stanley Football Club has officially had its own pub in the town, the Crown, since July 2007.
The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".
However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems.
* Peter Murphy ( footballer born 1990 ), English footballer with Accrington Stanley
Accrington had been without a football team following the collapse of the original Accrington Stanley in 1966.
In 2005 – 06, Stanley won the Football Conference and were promoted to League Two, switching places with relegated Oxford United – in a reversal of fortune, the team that had been elected to replace the former Accrington Stanley as members of the Football League in 1962.
Throughout this era, one notable Accrington Stanley player was portly Australian striker J. P. Winter, who joined the club after several unsuccessful trials in Scotland and who eventually gained cult status amongst the Stanley faithful.
After being caught in a malicious brawl at the Green Horse Pub the night before a game, he was banished indefinitely from the club until a petition to reverse the decision was raised by Accrington Stanley supporters.
As his poor form continued, the rotund striker was eventually released by Accrington Stanley, leaving the club to join a Finnish amateur side where he would see out the remainder of his playing days.
Stanley had taken £ 50, 000 from Blackpool in 1997 with the agreement that Blackpool would pay Accrington a quarter of what it might have received if it in turn transferred Ormerod to another team.
on Stanley Street in Accrington.
With the demise of Accrington, Stanley Villa took the town name to become Accrington Stanley.
BOY 1: " Yeah, and he says, if I don't drink enough milk, I'll only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".
BOY 2: " Accrington Stanley, who are they?
Accrington and Football
Accrington is the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.
An earlier club, Accrington F. C., were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888.
The original town club, Accrington, was amongst the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, before resigning from the league after just five years.
Accrington Football Club were an English football club from Accrington, Lancashire, who were one of the founder members of The Football League.
At 513 feet above sea level, it is the 5th highest ground in the Premier League or Football League ( West Brom's Hawthorns – 552 feet, Oldham's Boundary Park – 526 feet, Port Vale – Vale Park – 520 feet, Accrington Stanley's Crown Ground – 516 feet ).
* The Football League – Preston North End 33 points, Everton 31, Blackburn Rovers 27, Wolves 25, West Bromwich Albion 25, Accrington FC 24
* Ahead of the 1893 – 94 season, the Football League decides to expand the Second Division from 12 to 16 clubs but, with the unexpected demise of Accrington FC, they are left with 15.
Unexpectedly, Accrington FC then withdraws from the Football League and the 1893 – 94 Second Division has to proceed with an uneven 15 clubs.
They became the first Football League club since Accrington Stanley to resign from the League during the course of a season.
Carlisle United won their first game in the Football League Third Division North with the side of Prout, Coulthard, Cook, Harrison, Ross, Pigg, Agar, Hutchison, McConnell, Ward and Watson beating Accrington Stanley 3 – 2.
Two years later, in 1962, the club won the Southern League title for the second successive season and was elected to the Football League Fourth Division, occupying the vacant place left by bankrupt Accrington Stanley.
Since their admission to the Football League in 1921, Rochdale's main rivalries have been with Bury, Burnley, Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town, Accrington Stanley and Stockport County.
Former league members Accrington Stanley have risen to play in the Football League.
For the 1893 – 94 season, they were accepted into the Football League Second Division, replacing Accrington who had just resigned.
Crawley currently participate in Football League One, the third tier of English football, having secured promotion on the last day of the 2011 – 12 season with a 1 – 0 win against Accrington Stanley.
* 15 April 2006 — Accrington Stanley regain their Football League status 44 years after the previous club of the same name lost it due to bankruptcy, after they beat Woking to win the Conference National title.
Accrington and Club
* Accrington FC, known as " Th ' Owd Reds ", is founded in 1878 by the town cricket club and plays at Thorneyholme Road, which remains the home of Accrington Cricket Club to the present.
Hirst was nevertheless impressed by Verity and recommended him to Accrington Cricket Club, a team in the Lancashire League looking for a professional cricketer.
She has said that her great-grandfather, George Bargery, was one of the founders of Everton Football Club, and either the club's first goalkeeper, or that he played in goal for the club in its first Football League game, a home game against Accrington.
Accrington and is
Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn.
The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.
Accrington is commonly abbreviated by locals to " Accy ".
What is known is that there was a chapel in Accrington prior to 1553 where the vicar of Whalley was responsible for the maintenance of divine worship.
One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.
Strictly speaking, the ' Accrington Pals ' battalion is properly known as the ' 11th East Lancashire Regiment ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington.
The town's shopping centre is called the Accrington Arndale Centre.
Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.
The trackbed from Accrington to Baxenden is now a linear treelined cycleway / footpath. As of November 2011 Hyndburn borough council has plans to re-open the rail link to manchester.
Accrington is represented in parliament as a part of the constituency of Hyndburn.
Due to its size Accrington is represented by a number of wards in the Borough of Hyndburn.
* Accrington and Rossendale College ( also known as Across ) is a further education college for 14 – 19 year olds.
The local hospital is Accrington Victoria Hospital however, as it only deals with minor issues, A & E is provided by the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
One of the most important pieces of the regeneration jigsaw for the Borough is reviving Accrington town centre.
The major towns of Burnley and Accrington are to the north and northwest respectively ; Todmorden, Walsden and the county of West Yorkshire are to the east ; Rochdale and the county of Greater Manchester are to the south ; Rawtenstall, from where Bacup is governed, is to the west.
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