League Two

STANLEY GET OUT OF A FINE MESS!

by
The LeaguePaper Team
23 April 2017

Now they’re chasing a play-off spot

By John Lyons
ONLY an eternal optimist – or manager John Coleman – could have imagined at Christmas that Accrington Stanley would have a shout of reaching the League Two play-offs.
At that time, the only way Stanley looked like leaving League Two was by the trapdoor.
A 2-0 defeat at Grimsby Town on Boxing Day left the Lancashire club looking like turkeys.
They were 22nd in the table, just outside the relegation places by the narrowest of margins on goal difference. It was the culmination of a nine-match winless run that left them in the ...

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