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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...
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....
CBA Saturday
May. 1 | When the dust had settled on Saturday evening regarding the shake up for the play off spots in the Rymans Premier League the set of results struck me as very strange indeed. A total of 55 goals were scored in the 11 games played – an average of exactly...
Well that was one hell of a season
Apr. 29 | So it all comes down to just 90 minutes of football. The whole season will be decided not only by events at The Dripping Pan, but also at Grosvenor Vale, HA7 and Ram Meadow, Bury St Edmunds. Despite the excellent form of the Rooks over the past two...
I get around…
Apr. 21 | ….from town to town, I’m a real cool head, I’m makin’ real good bread” A trip to Canvey Island on a wet, wild and windy April afternoon probably doesn’t feature in any Top 100 Days Out in England programmes, but for...
Draycott, Lord of the Manor
Apr. 14 | “Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity” Every football team in every season has one defining event, the moment that decides the fate of the team, the players, the manager and the club. That moment may be a refereeing decision, a...
Prudence, transparency, trust and 3 points
Apr. 9 | “There are rich teams and then there are poor teams. And then there is us” That isn’t a quote from one of the current board of Lewes FC, although it could quite easily be one. It is from the excellent film, Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt...
