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| | A Year Missed, But the Ritual Never Changes |
 | | Although they were recipients, in their memory, of a Football League shield as one of the original 12 members of the league in 1890, it was pioneering Accrington FC who deserved it, a very different entity that died, fed up, after a 12-0 defeat by Darwen in 1896. |
 | | A number of complaining letters at my botch are imprimatured by that anorak-emperor of sporting stats, Robert Brooke, who says Accrington Stanley, a pub team formed in 1891, were not elected to the Football League Third Division (North) till 1921-22. |
 | | He might tell that to the league's official statto-nerds. |
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