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The aim of our website is for the fans of the club to share audio, images, memorabilia, videos and most importantly their memories to provide a footballing and social history on all things Hamilton Academical. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. They have a mortgage, they have cars, they have bills and they hadn’t been paid in months.“All the boys went to the pub and had a chat, I remember it very well.“If they hadn’t taken those 15 points we would have stayed up.“I said to Ally Dawson ‘why don’t you just put the young ones on?’ to try them, you could have brought them as back-up if the decision was the players didn’t turn up.“It was me and James, who came up on loan from Sheffield Wednesday, who turned up to Stenhousemuir.“I’d been paid and a lot of guys hadn’t been, so I felt like I should turn up and play.“You look back now and it’s funny because maybe they should have played and we would have stayed up, but it’s so different when you’re in that environment.“Things were so heated. The Accies is a famous Scottish football club that was founded in 1874. Hamilton Accies make ex-Dundee United winger their sixth summer signing Justin Johnson has joined Hamilton Accies on a one-year deal to become Brian Rice's sixth summer signing.
I think they regretted it after.”He added: “I’d be confident that Accies will survive this.“It’s going to be tough for all the teams in Scotland, and I think Accies will find it very hard.“There is no way to know when this thing is going to finish, but I would expect clubs in Scotland to have a lot of problems with money.“Accies look like they have come a long way in the last 20 years, and even though it’s a bad situation I think they will come through.” Hamilton had their moments in the game, but Celtic ended the game with a fine total of 25 efforts at goal . Hamilton Accies have completed the signing of former Livingston right-back Hakeem Odoffin.
“Daz is a player who knows all about football at this level having played with Clydebank FC before making his move senior eight years ago. Welcome to the Hamilton Academical Memory Bank, with the support of the Accies Trust. They next day I spoke with the manager and he said they are going to take points away from us.“I understand the boys that went on strike.
Just days later a defeat to Ross County would see them sent to the Third Division.Quitongo and James Coubrough were the only two players to turn up for the Warriors clash, and he vividly remembers standing with the Sheffield Wednesday loanee and gaffer Ally Dawson in the club’s darkest hour.Having seen them at their rock bottom two decades ago, the Angolan has been pleased to see the side battling in the top flight for so long.Despite Covid-19 forcing clubs to cut their cloth, Quitongo has faith that the modern-day Accies will survive the national crisis.“I remember when we were supposed to play Stenny and the guys hadn’t been paid,” he said.“The players said they weren’t going to go. The former winger was part of the nomadic Accies side in 2000 that were in the midst of a cash crisis and had no home ground.The issues came to a head in April when the players who had not been paid took strike action and missed a trip to face Stenhousemuir – making headlines across the globe.
Jose Quitongo is confident Hamilton Accies will survive the financial turmoil of lockdown – after seeing the club at their lowest 20 years ago.