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If anything I think we'd have ended up worse than what eventually happened.

As sure as eggs is eggs we'd have left the league sooner or later, and possibly suffered the ignominy of dropping through the leagues. Crowds were pathetic, the club was run down and non-league football would have put the nails in the coffin.

However, because of what happened and the way it happened there was possibly a sense of injustice and the club has for 42 years used the old club as the catalyst and drive behind pursuing the dream.

But this is where I feel something has to change. For the entire history of Stanley, and Accrington FC before it, we have suffered geographically. Accrington is not a rich town and cannot afford to prop up its football club. Our town is no more apathetic than most other towns and cities. We have a certain percentage of the town that has disposable income to spend on football and some spend it at the Crown, some at Ewood, some at the Turf and others elsewhere. Its the same everywhere else. What we have to do is seriously buck the trend and change history or this club will carry on punching above its weight until such time as history catches up with it. Ilyas and co simply must find a new way of this club taking in as much money as it can possibly attract so that it can hold its own in a sugar daddy driven industry.