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Noooo football is the dark side, a game of thuggery where fans can't be trusted to make their own way to the game without a police escort and some of the players are just as bad.

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Accyweb is by far the best of any forums covering towns in Lancashire. By that I mean that it is active each day. I think I am correct in saying that several NEL forums have passed away.

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I agree Bob,but it needs regulars like the contributors to this debate to keep putting their twopenarth in, otherwise Accyweb will follow the sites you describe.

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Well, perhaps if you post something interesting Jim, you will get a response.
I come on here every day, but have no interest in football or any other sport...and frequently those are the only posts that are going.
If there was anything else I would contribute...so it is not a case of wakening up.

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Long time since you went to a game then? That scenario sounds like the 1980's - except for when the aforementioned Rovers & Burnley play each other :rolleyes:

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Doubt if neils ever been to a game, the nonsense he mentions happened when Moby Dick was a tadpole.up stanley as you well know opposing fans sup and have the craic with one another, neil also probably has little idea what craic is.:D

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I drove for Ribblesdale Batty Holt coaches on holiday tours when I first moved to Accrington. At the end of the holiday season we had the job of carrying Burnley and Blackburn football team and supporters to away matches.
I’d just returned from a Lake Garda tour and the week after told to take Blackburn Rovers team to Milwall. After the match I had about a dozen mounted police escorting the coach away from the ground. It was very scary.
A couple of weeks later I did Carlisle and same again, bricks etc thrown at the coach.
Next time I was told to take the team coach I handed my fuel card and Garage key back to the boss and told him to stick the job.
That’s my experience of football 40 odd years ago.

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In them days mate Millwall was the worst place on earth, i had a mate put in hospital after being stuck with a meat hook that was before the match.:eek: thing was they were not even teens, they were blokes about 40-50 yrs old that attacked us.

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We had one coach with every near side window smashed and panels bent after Huddersfield 'fans' bricked it leaving the ground.

When the transport manager of the coach firm asked why I was leaving I said "I'm not paid to drive a cattle truck".

On the Millwall job we went down the day before and the team and me stayed in a hotel away from the ground. For safety reasons the Millwall management arranged for the coach to be parked in the London Transport New Cross depot overnight.

I know things are different today, or are they?

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Well different,long gone is that stuff.

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Why are there still police at matches, even for little teams like Stanley?

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Well if yeh dont know that yeh never been remotely interested in football.:rolleyes:

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What have football hooliganism and Accrington Stanley got in common? Absolutely nothing. No arrests at the club in 2016/17 and as far as I'm aware, no arrests this season either. Stanley is the friendliest, safest club in the Football League. As Cashy says, rival fans chat and have a bit of craic with each other in the pub and walking to and from the ground. Stanley are a family club - that's why they bussed around 1,200 children from Hyndburn schools to the ground to give them all Stanley shirts and goodie bags yesterday.

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currently 12 members and 246 guests on line, wonder how many of those may like what they see and register as members? It would be in interesting to know if they visit for a 1 off reason or if they don't like what they read for some reason and don't revisit.
Mark

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Well that won't make much difference if they join and hardly ever post will it Mark.?