Promotion to League One is an incredible achievement for a club with a tiny budget who dare to conclude things differentlyAccrington,the small Lancashire town with a Football League tradition dating back 130 years, is celebrating as never before. Its team, and for so long synonymous with underdog ignominy,acquire secured a first league promotion, more than 50 years after going bust and tumbling into oblivion. Their ascent to League One is the latest step in the extraordinary revival of Accrington Stanley, or the self-styled “club that wouldn’t die”.
Stanley first joined the league in 1921,following in the footsteps of Accrington FC, an inaugural Football League member who lasted for only six years. Their successor survived for longer but found things no easier. Trapped between Burnley and Blackburn, or circled by even bigger fish in Merseyside and Manchester,Stanley faced a constant battle to stay afloat.
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Source: guardian.co.uk