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Oh you mean that one Liverpool have won 5 times;)

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I had not forgotten fhat Rovers did get invited once - can't remember how far they got as it is so long ago? :):):)

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Yes Cashy, even though we dropped points I thought it was a great game.

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So supporting your home town football club is "weird"? Oh well, if you say so, Barrie.

Proud to be Stanley, proud to be weird! :mosher:

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"So supporting your home town football club is "weird"? Oh well, if you say so, Barrie." - Suggest you read my post more carefully Wyn.
I stated that I considered your values to be weird, not your support for Accrington Stanley.
Purely as a point of interest, how do you determine your "home town football club" - is it the town where you were conceived, where you were born, the town where you have spent the major part of your life or some other reason?
I am truly interested in your views on this crucial point.

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One of my values, Barrie, is loyalty to your home town and its people, and that includes the football club. You can interpret the phrase "home town club" in different ways, but yours is a simple case - you were, like myself, born (as far as I'm aware) and brought up in Accrington, therefore you should be showing interest in and loyalty to your home town club, rather than one in the Borough of Trafford, which (again, as far as I'm aware) you have no connection with. You don't even have the excuse that your formative years were in the 60's/70's when Accrington had either no football club, or one at the very bottom of the football ladder. When you were forming your alliances and loyalties, Stanley had an excellent team, well worth supporting.

But I accept that having gone so far down the wrong path, it may be too late to alter this strange infatuation you have with United now. I am, however, prepared to grant you a special dispensation if you adopt Stanley as your second team and come to watch us every now and then. I might even buy you a pint! ;)

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Must admit being Liverpool born & bred, my first choice growing up was the Liverpool of the 70's,80's & 90's, glory years by anyone's standard, but having moved away in 84', my allegiance wasn't so strong but you always keep an eye on the fixtures & results.

As to Stanley, well I think that for myself & many others it was the 80's Milk advert that brought prominence to the Club & curiosity from the majority of non Accringtonians. Still having said this, you then cast a casual eye over the clubs fixtures & results (same for Tranmere) & wished them well.

Really in reality I've personally taken a whole lot more interest in the Club & it's doings since visiting the ground last Summer 09, and having a friendly chat with the groundsman & his whole ebullience & belief, conviction, love even of his Club. This did really show the shallowness & commercialism of the "Big Boys Leagues".

So much so that this Season I was determined to get at least one game in at the Crown (Holidays juggled accordingly) as it was I got to see 2 Stanley games, Tranmere JPT & Home against Wycombe. It was also no turn of fate that I deliberately brought friends & their 2 Boys to their first Live (at the ground, sights, sounds & smells footballing experience) to Stanley !

Sure I could've gone to a multi million, all glittering, singing & dancing "Super star" studded stadium of commerce (even my own Liverpool fits that bill) but I didn't. I wanted the Boys to see grass roots, love, pride, passion footy, it isn't pretty & me, me, me. I wanted the true essence & spirit of the game, something that has sadly been cast aside as a hindrance in the "Big Boys" games driven by money & business.

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"But I accept that having gone so far down the wrong path, it may be too late to alter this strange infatuation you have with United now. I am, however, prepared to grant you a special dispensation if you adopt Stanley as your second team and come to watch us every now and then. I might even buy you a pint!"

Sorry to disillusion you Wyn - I do have a number of Stanley shirts - 6 I think, I also had a Centenary T-shirt, but my nephew in Cape Town scrounged that on off me - I hate to admit it to you but I do wear one or other of them now and then.

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Nail - head - hit. Karma sent! :)

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Time to wear one on a visit to the Crown ground next time you're over, Barrie. A pint awaits you in the Oak Lea and I promise not to go into any "you should support your hometown club" rants. ;)

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Are you sure now Wyn:D

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Positive...I'm Mr Mellow in the Oak Lea...as for the Clayton End, all rants reserved for errant match officials! ;)

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Just checking Wyn, just checking:D

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Well it just gets worse, United are on tonight, Sunday v Liverpool, and on we go next Wednesday their reserves are on in the league cup v Scunthorpe and wait for it they're then on the box the following Sunday V Bolton that's eight on the bounce, they really are taking the P*** now

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Just think how it allows all the supporters of so many other clubs to watch their teams - playing the Creme - anyway next weekend they are on ESPN - don't know many people that subscribe to ESPN :D:D:D