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STANLEY FOUND FINALLY FULFIL T THE BOTTLE TO HEIR EFL DREAM

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
31 May 2026

The NLP’S story of a season: Turn ning back the clock to 2005-06
By CHRIS DUNLAVY

ACCRINGTON Stanley – who are they? Well, by the end of the 2005-06 season, they were Conference champions.
Back in the 1980s, the Lancashire minnows had become the butt of a joke in a now infamous milk advert.
“It’s what Ian Rush drinks,” one kid tells another. “And he said if I don’t drink lots of milk, when I grow up I’ll only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley.

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