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Accy are winning at snakes and ladders

by
The LeaguePaper Team
11 March 2018

Gregor Robertson
FORMER FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST
IF I’M being brutally honest, during my playing career a visit to Accrington Stanley held about as much appeal as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Yes, the changing rooms are tiny – and freezing or sweltering depending on the season. The stadium is decrepit and, come winter, the pitch invariably turned into a swamp.
It wasn’t the nicest place to play football, but there was also a feeling that Stanley’s team of kids and cast-offs relished their status as League Two’s most unfashionable outfit.
They we...

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