[Thorne In The Side]

As the Brentford Fanzine Editor who treasured Stanley as my 'second' club (when you were non league) after watching you eighteen times at home and travelling away to the likes of Burscough, Ashton, Vauxhall Motors, Halifax and Aldershot (I used to work in Manchester midweek) I was gutted about yesterday.

I travelled the 500 mile round trip and stayed overnight as did a lot of the 900 or so Bees that were about to descend on Stanley for the afternoon.

All I can say (and it pains me to say it) that I feel really let down by Accy as a club who must have known that the game wouldn't have even had a chance of being on Friday lunchtime - lets face it, there hadn't been further rain and the pitch at 1.45pm yesterday was un-playable..
Why as a club you couldn't have made the decision on Friday heaven knows..at 2pm before setting off your girl on the switchboard said that unless it rained and rained over night, the game would definetly be on..

Our coach and Physio went to the ground at 11am and the ball wouldn't even roll on the surface, there were no lines on the stand side of the ground so you can't really blame the referee..

The poster who said that our manager didn't want it on is talking rubbish - I stayed with him on the Friday night and Brentford were desperate to play coming into the game on a tremendous run..

Both clubs supporters lost out - Accy from 900 x £13 from us, and all the londoners who spent hundreds on train tickets, petrol and hotel stop overs..

Shame as I wanted this one big time, especially as I was possibly the only traveller there who'd actually been to Stanley before..can't see many of making the trip now on a Tuesday night..