The Accrington Stanley Chronicle
Market25 Oct 2027
Jack Stacey asks to leave Accrington Stanley
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Louie Bradbury, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.03
A mark of 8.03 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Accrington Stanley
Sean McLoughlin was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Farrend Rawson 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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Accrington Stanley see off Chesterfield
Three points for Accrington Stanley, 2‑1 the final word against Chesterfield in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces25 Oct 2027
The crowd has taken to Louie Bradbury
At 19 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.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Liam Coyle
- Squad Accrington Stanley count the cost of losing James Moore
- Player ratings Paul Smyth was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Charlie Brown runs at them all day