Sending out an S.O.S
As you all know I am from a very small, but quite famous Lacastrian town named Accrington. There are really three things that Accrington is famous for aside from myself and they are:
1) The Milk Advert
2) The Heroic Accrington Pals of the First World War and
3) Accrington Stanley
As you may or may not know Accrington Stanley is in serious threat of no longer existing as a football team due to them owing a huge tax bill of upwards of £300,000. The reason why I haven’t chosen to comment on this up until recently is the fact that Accrington Stanley has done little or nothing to help themselves as regards how they look after their money or give back to the community that they are now urging to aid them in their time of need. Therefore I wouldn’t say I wished the worst upon the historic team, but opted to let the chips fall as they may, this was up until today.
I was talking with a man of approximately 70-years-of-age on the train, when he revealed to me that football is one of the few remaining threads running through communities in Lancashire. He also reminded me that although times change as well as the land scape, football and the teams involved in local communities are what set us apart from the rest of the world and maybe even give us a unified identity.
On that note all I would urge you to think about is how much your community means to you and how things all around you are being changed for better or worse, and if you can spare even a bit of money to make that gentleman on the train and some footballing fans across the world a little happier that their identity remains somewhat intact, then please donate here.
If you wish to read a little further into the problems at Accrington Stanley, Paul Fletcher has written a wonderful piece on the website here.