The Accrington Stanley Chronicle
Market14 Sep 2026
Farrend Rawson puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Accrington Stanley, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Aidan Borland, 19, steals the show — 7.89
Marked 7.89 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
James Bree turns down Accrington Stanley
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Southampton keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market14 Sep 2026
Alex Henderson’s move to Cambridge United falls through
The deal that would have taken Alex Henderson to Cambridge United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Accrington Stanley with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Match12 Sep 2026
Aidan Borland sends Accrington Stanley past Harrogate Town
It finished 2‑1, and it was Aidan Borland’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Accrington Stanley.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Aidan Borland
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Richard Harris joins the Accrington Stanley first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Harris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
100 appearances for Charlie Caton
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Accrington Stanley and Duncan Watmore
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Accrington Stanley, another week without a signature from Duncan Watmore.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at Accrington Stanley
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Duncan Watmore
- The dugout The view from the dugout