[maccawozzagod]

some of my favourite memories

1st game

I was about six years old and had just started reading the newspapers. Having also just started collecting football stickers I misread that Stanley were playing away at Watford and begged my dad to take me .... imagine my six year old disgust when Vicarage Road turned out to be the Barton Stadium at Winsford!

A couple of years later we were away at Glossop and having a torrid time .. I asked my dad what their nickname was so that I could shout my support to galvanise the troops ...... COME ON YOU STIIIIFFFFFFS (old speak for corpses or summat)

Owd man Jack and his little Yorkshire Terrier

Ruth Chadwick outside ASDA selling her raffle tickets weekly

Number 7 mid eighties was Peter Flynn - used to be me mam and dads Insurance collector, every thursday he'd come round to collect the weeks money (before Direct Debits) and I'd give him hell for hisperformance the previous week.

Every visit to Buxton went through Bakewell - cue forty arses hanging out of the coach window whilst shouting TART ad nauseum

Getting arrested at Buxton (not my fault)

Stanely fans versus the Jukebox away at Colwyn Bay. A few of us went into a bar in the town centre singing, a handful of Reds were already in there and the Landlord had countered the singing by turning the jukebox up, when us few landed the original lot joined in and the jukebox had to be turned up louder, so we give up again. Then another ten or so came through the door and even on full the poor old jukebox just couldn't compete! After leaving that pub to cross the pedestrianised street to the next one we were greeted by the bar staff frantically barricading the door with furniture! We ended up with the local Police commandeering a bus full of pensioners and turfing them out in the street to 'escort' us to the ground! Riot van in front, behind and motorcycle outriders!!!! For us!! Funny

Not paying to get into the Gateshead FA cup match because I had to start work at 4pm, so I watched the first half from one of the trees behind the Accy end.

Not being able to get to the Stalybridge FA Cup match because I was trolley pushing at ASDA, every goal was cheered and I hit at least one car with me stack of trolleys

Subsequently finding out that my old man got nicked for chucking a bin on the pitch at the same game!!!! (tannoy) COULD MRS RUSSELL PLEASE COME TO THE STEWARDS OFFICE

Returning home from Penrith every year through the thick fog on them little winding roads in the dark (top of cliffs)

'retiring' as mascot cos I didn't like Frank O'Kane the then manager

getting a red tracksuit (mid eighties them well smart ones with two stripes running down the arms and legs, only available in blue or red) for christmas and warming up with the subs at Eastwood Hanley

Paul Beck playing his 300th game for Stanley as Goalkeeper away at Chorley. Typical bloody striker! Brian Ross hit a pearler of a fee kick from 35 yard that narrowly went over, Becky claimed the save and pointed to the corner spot!!!!

Barbados

Darren Quick penalty knocking out some old codger in a penalty shoot out at Ashton

Taking the mickey out of Albert in Tamworth (en route to Atherstone) when we went into the Albert pub on Albert Road singing lets all do the Albert (you had to know why)

Pitch invasion at the same time when Diego Mara-Mellor scored that wonder goal "honest I saw the keeper off his line" it was a cross from from the touchline from about 25 yards out that was more wind assisted than the world farting championships!

A 25 blast salvo on the old bugle in the 'clubhouse' at Atherstone

The fat bloke in the 'clubhouse' at Matlock

Liberating Marine Clubhouse of the doormat

Liberating Hyde United clubhouse of practically everything

Some old timer collaring me at Horwich just after we had done the first ever MAJOR confetti throw. "I 'ope tha's benna pick thad up" yeah yeah mate bring me a brush after t'game. And he did! and I didn't!

Liberating Horwich of the boards they put outside the turnstile advertising the next match

Plum liberating the butty van at Howrich of its Brown sauce bottel, then squirting it on the keeper's towel!!!!!!!! that kept him in beer for weeks!

Gazza scoring the third goal at Exeter, that gave me the belief that we might just stand a chacne of winning the Conference

Feeling like Billy-big-boots as I walked into work after the Woking game.

Telling a big money punter that his idea of backing Stanley at 66-1 to win the Conference was a bad one, and not going in that pub since!

Grays away, awesome atmosphere created by so few of us. Everybody ringing in on their mobiles were saying that all you could hear on the Sky commentary was this little band of red and white.

OH ACCRINGTON in the boozer at Exeter. Those that were there will know why

STANLEY ARE BACK at Chester on the opening day of our Football League career



thats enough for now methinks!