RangersNearlyDead wrote:I'm with GSB on this one. Their slogan is (a bit of a) nonsense, truly. Stanley were dead, and well and truly buried, for around 5 years after folding in 1963.
Other clubs that were resuscitated with much shorter time spans (some more than once, and one or two I think just took a couple of hours), and so would probably have more claim to being a "club that wouldn't die", include County, Portsmouth, Huddersfield, Hereford, Norwich (~2 years dead), Swansea, Wimbledon, Doncaster, Leeds, Darlington, Stockport, Bradford PA, Workington, Stockport, Maidstone, Aldershot, Chester, Chelsea, Scarborough...
My goodness Brendan, I did laugh out loud when I read that. In a bar in Tenerife, my wife asked me what was so funny. She liked the suspension of reality bit and so did I.Stan A. Einstein wrote:Grown men paying good money, and getting into a frenzy of anger, despair, elation over watching twenty two other grown men kicking a ball about a meadow for 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. The entire bloody thing is bollocks.George Street-Bridge wrote:How on earth do you make the gigantic leap from what I wrote to what you wrote?
They'd be even more admirable if they didn't make a rod for their own back with a slogan which is bollocks.
If you don't get that you miss the point entirely. But for the young lads and lasses who go to watch Accrington Stanley that suspension of reality, that for a couple of hours their team is the greatest the world has ever seen, is what it's all about.
The team that wouldn't die may be bollocks, but it's happy bollocks. Do you really not understand that dreams and not reality is what it's all about? I suppose that the team from a post industrial Lancashire shithole who will probably come straight back down would be a more accurate slogan. But the team that wouldn't die is a whole lot more fun don't ya think?
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