WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND

Carabao Cup ties tonight. Yorkshire teams include Leeds v Newport County, Doncaster Rovers v Hull City, Sheffield United v Leicester City; unfortunately not attractive enough to get me out of the house. But there are attractive ties for Newport County and the Blades as well as other nice ties dotted around the country; Milton Keynes Dons v Swansea, Watford v Bristol City. In Round 2 do you think the richer clubs will take the liberty or will they out out proper teams?
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So the big tie is where an old colleague is heading because he is a Baggie fan. It is at Accrington Stanley. I thought I might turn up, but I have done the Wham Stadium before, when I was on a pilgrimage to the original Football League clubs from 1888. It was the League's 125th Anniversary and I also went to Accrington because they were founder members. They were called just Accrington in those days. Having acquired Stanley from another local club, they have an historic opposition today, West Bromwich Albion, another founder member. (name the other 10 founder members?).

In 1893 Accrington dropped out of the League and re-emerged in 1921-2 when the FL was expanded in include Divisions 3, North and South.

Accrington is a pleasant Lancashire town, in which the hardest, densest building bricks in the world are produced, Accrington Nori (Iron). These have been taken world wide and have been used in the Empire State Building and foundations for the neighbouring Blackpool Tower.

The town is a little run down through the shopping precinct but the neat and tidy ground is just out of town, away from the original Peel Park. The Wham, capacity of just over 5,000, is named after the investor What More UK Ltd, Plastic Box Company. Even supporter Bumble is excited by the sponsorship!

Accrington Stanley went out of the League in 1962, replaced by Oxford United and the club eventually collapsed in 1966. It was reformed in 1968, playing at the Crown Ground, named after the Crown Pub, owned by the club. Stanley has stuck together and gradually worked its way through the Lancashire Combination, North West Counties,Conference and back into the Football League replacing in 2005-6 Oxford United.