The Accrington Stanley Chronicle
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Accrington Stanley
A 2‑1 win over Huddersfield Town, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match16 Sep 2026
Accrington Stanley win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 114th minute. Huddersfield Town will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Isaac Heath at 21 — 7.67
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Isaac Heath did not need any: 7.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Farrend Rawson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Accrington Stanley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Finlay Tunstall at Accrington Stanley
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Finlay Tunstall is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Alex Henderson
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Josh Smith falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Josh Woods
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Patrick stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.96 on the card, and the Accrington Stanley support went home talking about one name.
In brief
- Match Accrington Stanley share the spoils with Newport County
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Marcus Wyllie
- Player ratings Devon Matthews spends the afternoon fouling