SAVE OUR STANLEY- Save the Club!
It’s time to be serious for a moment. Now, here at this site, I try and take a surreal look at things. But at the core of it I’m sentimental, and I’m a massive football fan. I personally support West Bromwich Albion- a model of financial efficiency, an unusual accolade in football nowadays.
HOWEVER- the great club that I helm in this blog is under real threat. In short, the club Accrington Stanley threatens to disappear because of the taxman.
For those who don’t know, Accrington Stanley were a founder member of the Football League- they are a truly historic football club. However, the current football club is not the original- the original Stanley had to wind-up in 1962 and resign from the football league. They had to reform, and go through the massive web of leagues to just get to a chance of Football League status once again, which both I and the club achieved in the same historic year.
How can you not read this wonderful article by Paul Fletcher over at the BBC and not be moved?
(Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/09/accrington_determined_to_save.html#142287 )
So please. Their total is massive- the taxman at HMRC is being ridiculously harsh, seeing as that the club offered to pay in instalments.
So please, SAVE OUR STANLEY:
http://saveourstanley.co.uk/
Just donate a couple of quid- I may do when my student finance goes through. If we can even get 10 or 20 towards the club, it’ll be so worth it. So let Accrington with its tiny, historic club allow themselves to say for many decades yet:
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. We are Stanley.”
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