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Habbin WE HAD ALL HEARD OF ACCRINGTON STANLEY LONG BEFORE THE FAMOUS MILK ADVERT AND BEFORE BUMBLE DESCRIBED THE PLACE ON TEST MATCH SPECIAL AS GOD’S CHOSEN ACRE. They were always associated with disaster, collapse and the kind of fall from grace since experienced by many other football clubs, such as Bury, Macclesfield and Stockport County. There was no Fans’ Led Review at that time, no talk of spreading the money more evenly and fairly throughout the game, or regulating football externally to protect the interest of devoted fans. When Stanley went bust and failed to complete their season, no one realised that it was actually possible for a Football League club to simply cease to be because of financial mismanagement or incompetence, but it happened abruptly and without mercy and has continued to happen to an increasing number of clubs until now. At last people have realised that the big clubs have become very rich at the expense of the minnows who have become increasingly unable to compete with those who use their money to increase their power and dominate the game. Without change, the grass roots will wither and die and the sport itself will kill the golden goose. But we know all this. We played Accrington in our first season in the Conference. I had no idea that they still existed. Fola Onibuje, our very own Bambi on ice, tormented them at the Abbey. We didn’t do so well at their place but J.K.Rowling We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. what a welcome our fans got. Several of us enjoyed a pint of shandy in the Crown Inn where we found the softly spoken locals friendly, knowledgeable and interested in the views of people from other places who love the game as much as they do. It was a bit like going to Newcastle in that respect. Stanley don’t have that many fans or season ticket holders, which means that the club has been run superbly well. It should be held up as a fine example to us all as proof of what can be done without wealthy foreign owners with a dodgy human rights record. A lot of credit must go to John Coleman who knows a good player when he sees one and is, to my mind, one of the great managers. He inspires loyalty and total commitment to the team in his players, in much the same way that Mark Bonner does here at Cambridge. The locals at Burton last week were full of praise for the way our players never give up. It is a spreading reputation which is well deserved. We have been missing some key players through injury but others have really stepped up to the plate. Ours is a squad in the true sense of the word, albeit a small one. The romantics among us, and there are some on the Habbin, are delighted to see Accrington doing so well. Long may it continue, providing they don’t do too well today! Up the U’s! Andrew Stephen cambridgeunitedfc | Cambridge United Football Club | CambridgeUtdFC | www.cambridge-united.co.uk 19
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