The Accrington Stanley Chronicle
Player ratings4 Oct 2032
Harry Forster runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Oct 2032
Devlan Moses 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.
Squad4 Oct 2032
Words at Accrington Stanley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Lyamzin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad4 Oct 2032
No hiding place for Vyacheslav Puzikov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Puzikov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom4 Oct 2032
86% of the income goes out in wages at Accrington Stanley
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad4 Oct 2032
A place in the month's best eleven for Mark Murray
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mark Murray has come out of that comparison in the side, and Accrington Stanley have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
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