15-07-2022, 15:27
After returning from Spain on Thursday evening, Preston North End will make the short journey to face Accrington Stanley on Saturday afternoon.
PNE enjoyed a productive week in Alicante, training in the warm weather conditions, as well as taking on La Liga side Getafe at Campoamor.
The Wham Stadium is the setting on Saturday, though, as North End take on John Coleman’s side for a 3pm kick-off.
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League One side Accrington Stanley have set themselves up a tricky pre-season schedule to prepare for the new campaign, facing sides in the Championship and higher.
They kicked off their preparations with a 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace, while last weekend they played two games of 60 minutes against Blackburn Rovers, winning the first 1-0 before losing 2-0 in the second. They also came out on top against Stoke City on Wednesday evening.
For North End, this will be the fourth game of their pre-season schedule and the last one away from home, with a double header at Deepdale coming up next week against Hearts and Leicester City.
Everyone appears to have returned to Euxton unscathed following the training camp in Spain, with the only first team absentee being striker Sean Maguire.
Accrington Stanley F.C.,[38] entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division (North); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965. The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003. In the 2005–06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with three matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team. One of the teams relegated— and thus being replaced by Stanley—were Oxford United, who was voted into the Football League to replace the previous Accrington Stanley. The football stadium is called the Crown Ground. Until the 2012–13 season, when Fleetwood Town entered the league, Accrington was the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.[39]
Accrington Stanley Football Club has had its own pub in the town, the Crown, since July 2007.[40]
The Crown ground still talks about Liam Grimshaw's run into the wall at the League Cup tie many years ago, Thomas scored against them in a friendly last season, two weeks until the start of the season and new signings not in sight, time to get them in
PNE enjoyed a productive week in Alicante, training in the warm weather conditions, as well as taking on La Liga side Getafe at Campoamor.
The Wham Stadium is the setting on Saturday, though, as North End take on John Coleman’s side for a 3pm kick-off.
League One side Accrington Stanley have set themselves up a tricky pre-season schedule to prepare for the new campaign, facing sides in the Championship and higher.
They kicked off their preparations with a 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace, while last weekend they played two games of 60 minutes against Blackburn Rovers, winning the first 1-0 before losing 2-0 in the second. They also came out on top against Stoke City on Wednesday evening.
For North End, this will be the fourth game of their pre-season schedule and the last one away from home, with a double header at Deepdale coming up next week against Hearts and Leicester City.
Everyone appears to have returned to Euxton unscathed following the training camp in Spain, with the only first team absentee being striker Sean Maguire.
Accrington Stanley F.C.,[38] entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division (North); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965. The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003. In the 2005–06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with three matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team. One of the teams relegated— and thus being replaced by Stanley—were Oxford United, who was voted into the Football League to replace the previous Accrington Stanley. The football stadium is called the Crown Ground. Until the 2012–13 season, when Fleetwood Town entered the league, Accrington was the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.[39]
Accrington Stanley Football Club has had its own pub in the town, the Crown, since July 2007.[40]
The Crown ground still talks about Liam Grimshaw's run into the wall at the League Cup tie many years ago, Thomas scored against them in a friendly last season, two weeks until the start of the season and new signings not in sight, time to get them in
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