Richard Foster
, February 15th, 2021 09:42
In our monthly subscribers only feature, Richard Foster looks under that milk advert to a Lancastrian football club with an occult history
Walking down Whalley Road in Accrington, towards the Crown public house, the parish of Altham and the old industrial village of Clayton-le-Moors, the pedestrian will pass under a brown sign adorned with a football, stating “Accrington Stanley FC”. Following the sign’s arrow down Livingstone Road and taking a sharp left will lead the curious to the Crown Ground, now known as the Wham Stadium. This is the home of Accrington Stanley (1968) FC, a small football club close to the heart of the town, previously a “housewives’ favourite”, then “the club that wouldn’t die”. And now a club in the heart of the community, which is quite possibly the most rock & roll in the land.
TRIBUTES have been paid to one of the Lancashire Telegraph’s own after the death of former journalist Raymond Horsfield at the age of 85. Mr Horsfield’s journalistic career spanned across the 20th century as he worked his way up from cub reporter to becoming news editor of Blackburn’s Evening Star and later associate editor of the Evening Echo in Bournemouth. Despite his relocation to the South, the lifelong Burnley FC fan remained a Lancashire man at heart.
Raymond Horsfield Daughter Michaela said: “He always called a spade a spade he was very direct and didn’t suffer fools gladly, but he’d always take a young journalist under his wing and be there to guide them.