Blue Square South
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...
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....
Jan. 26 | After the cup exploits last week against AFC Sudbury, it was back to earth with a very big bang, complete with a “Kiss Me Quick Hat” on Saturday as five second half goals sunk the Rooks at Margate. The journey back from a day out at the...
Aug. 21 | James Drobka reports on an afternoon of Blue Square Bet South football from the banks of the Thames.
Staines. Probably most famous for being the setting to the Ali G movie, however to the council this is more hindrance rather than help. So much so, they...
Aug. 6 | In my misspent youth I was a frequent visitor to the Medway towns. Being just a few stops down the line on the train meant there was ample opportunity to hop on and off the train to avoid the conductor in the “toast rack” trains that used...
May. 4 | What is the biggest football club in the world? It is a difficult one to judge as you need to define the criteria. Is the biggest club the richest or the one with the biggest global support? Or perhaps the most successful, which opens up all sorts...
Apr. 30 | Lewes’s relegation was confirmed after the 2-1 home defeat to Bishop Stortford on Monday. Nobody at the club ranted and raved about poor decisions, bad luck or conspiracies. Dignity was the order of the day at the Dripping Pan with preparations...
Apr. 27 | A few weeks ago we wrote about that ridiculous practice of selling naming rights to grounds and stands. Such was the feedback from the piece that we have dug a bit deeper and found a few more. So we thought we would list our top ten ground names in...
Apr. 2 | You do feel for clubs that are penalised with points penalties through no fault of the current players or management team. You feel even sorrier for the fans. I know from bitter experience as a West Ham fan over the whole Tevez affair that your name...
Mar. 29 | So six down, four to go in our agenda for change for the Non League game. Parts one and two have gone down like a bacon sandwich on a hungover Sunday morning. Finding three (you will see why not four at the end of this post) was incredibly hard as there...