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The Future of Non League Football – Ask and ye shall receive
May. 16 | Continuing our series on what can be done to improve Non League football, the genius that is Beat The First Man raises the subject that clubs themselves are sometimes their own worst enemies. You know what gets my goat in non league football? Well, apart...
The Darts hit the bullseye of promotion after 26 years of hurt
May. 14 | I’ve never really hidden my admiration for the progress Dartford have made on and off the pitch in the past few seasons. Just a year or so ago I waxed lyrical about my upbringing just down the road from Watling Street and my afternoons spent running...
The Future of Non League Football – Time to rethink the FA Vase?
May. 11 | Wembley Stadium will host a number of massive games in May. The FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Liverpool will be played out in front of a capacity crowd early in the month before the attention turns to the sell out between West Ham United and Blackpool...
Is Roy Hodgson the right man for the England job?
May. 11 | With Roy Hodgson looking set to become England manager, there is lots of talk about whether he is the right man for the job as Thomas Rooney explains. Many people looking at Euro 2012 Odds were expecting current Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp to become...
Wasps cling onto Premiership survival by their fingernails
May. 8 | Based on my memories of watching London Wasps not so long ago in European Cup and Premiership finals, it takes some believing that they went into the final game of the season on Saturday needing a win to stay up. Mike Miles was at Adams Park. London...
Slav to the rhythm – A Balkan adventure
May. 8 | It’s 1am and the train’s grinding on the rough rails is keeping me awake. We are chugging somewhere between between Zagreb and Belgrade. We could be in Croatia, we could we be in Serbia. But we actually have no idea at all where we are. Conversations...
Daggers show their metal against the Pirates
May. 8 | Our Daggers Diary team headed down to Victoria Road for the final game of the season, knowing that next season they will be welcoming the likes of Fleetwood, Chesterfield and Rochdale next season, safe for another campaign that at times was very dubious. The...
Swans avoid a nightmare at the Theatre of Dreams
May. 8 | As Swansea City sign off on their Premier League travels, Abi Davies reflects on what could have been nearly a decade earlier. On the 3rd May 2003, Swansea City faced Hull in order to determine whether they would retain their Football League status. Over...
The blue print for Non League football – 1 year on
May. 5 | Last March, after really diving in head first into the non league game, I took stock of the game I had come to watch week in week out and put pen to paper (well, finger to laptop) and wrote a nine-point blue print for the future of Non League football....
