This week SDA met a local hero as part of our Accrington Stanley marketing campaign.

David “Bumble” Lloyd, Accrington-born ex-cricketer and Sky Sports pundit, is on the board at Accrington Stanley and met up with SDA’s Murray and Alison this week to discuss how he could lend his star power to our community campaign to encourage Accrington to get behind Stanley.

He said: “It’s dead easy to follow Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal or whoever but this is our town, this is our club and we need our community, our schools, our youngsters to come along and watch us play.

“We’ve lost the last few games and that’s what happens sometimes in sport – sometimes you lose. But we need that support to keep us going.”

Bumble, who was in Accy to watch his team’s clash against York City – his wife’s favourite club – was a great sport and let us take a few snaps of him to give this week’s Stanley promo efforts an extra push.

Bumble meets SDA

As a thank you we treated him to one of our famous SDA pads!

Bumble meets SDA