why the colour red?
well it doesn't come from the 'Stanley' coat of arms - if the original team was indeed named after a person specifically, as that crest is blue.
I would imagine the colour was chosen when the original Mr Coleman went to his local original Giftprint shop and said
"ast'e geet sum shirts ast' lads can run abaht in?"
and the original Stanleymad/lancsdave said
"aye, we geet hundrid weight o' this red malarkey down yon corner as tha can a fer nowt"
to which the original Mr Coleman - having been schooled at the infamous local Whalley Financial College replied
"dun, whats thi' finance terms an' conti gi'me a vat receipt?"
or it might be because the Accrington crest (which was only 'designed' two years before the formation of Accrington FC) contains a lot of Reddery
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