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November 20, 2008

A Marriage Of Inconvenience

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After the forced decampment of Wimbledon to Milton Keynes, we thought, perhaps, "never again". That was six years ago, but the ugly face of football franchising is raising its ugly face again. This time, however, the rumour mill is coming from the Conference North, with the distinct possibility starting to appear of one club trying [. Click to continue reading...
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November 13, 2008

Taking The Piss Out Of The FA Cup

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The slow burning feeling that football is set to turn into little than a reality TV show has been growing over the last few years. Whether through Setanta invading the dressing rooms before, during and after matches or Ebbsfleet United and the ongoing row over whether their supporters should pick the team (not to mention [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Non-League, football culture, latest

November 11, 2008

Match Of The Week - AFC Wimbledon 1-4 Wycombe Wanderers

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In the end, it was all a step too far. AFC Wimbledon were outdone last night by a Wycombe side that was that little bit fitter, taller and better organised than they were. No-one can have any complaints about the result. To say that this was the only thing that mattered last night, however, would [.. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Match Reports, Non-League, latest, match of the week

November 8, 2008

Living Vicariously Through The FA Cup

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As I hurtle unstoppably towards my late thirties, I tend to find that there is less and less to look forward to. Birthdays long ago became a cause for reflection and with an ever increasing desire to be able to say, "Whoaah! No more of these! Can't we just stop right where we are?". Without [...] Click to continue reading...
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November 6, 2008

Up The Avenue

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Of the smaller clubs that have had runs in the FA Cup over the years, some have had unhappy endings. Enfield, who became a national name in the 1970s and 1980s, have been the subject of a piece on here before, whilst Farnborough Town, who briefly scared the living daylights out of Arsenal as recently [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Non-League, football history, latest

November 5, 2008

When Sutton Met Coventry

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As the trains wend their way out of central London towards Surrey, one could be forgiven for missing Sutton in amongst the ever-expanding suburbia. These days, it's quite difficult to make out where London stops and Surrey starts, and it's even more difficult to make out Gander Green Lane it amongst it all. Click to continue reading...
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November 4, 2008

A Brave New World

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Whilst noble in principle, the Abercrombie Report could hardly now be described as having been an unqualified success. The report, which advocated the mass decampment of a million and a half people from the overcrowded East End of London, led to the creation of such wonders of post-war architecture as Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Non-League, latest

November 3, 2008

Blyth Spirit

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Even though the FA Cup has regained some of its sheen over the last couple of years, the new financial realism of the modern game tends to take its toll on any pretensions of "the romance of the cup". There is a tendency to look at everything through the eyes of an accountant these days [...] Click to continue reading...
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October 29, 2008

Exodus From Genesis

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Without wishing to blow my own trumpet too much, there are times when I think that perhaps this site should renamed, "Well, I Warned You That This Would Happen". What is more surprising is that whilst we often see the screamingly obvious about some of the more hare-brained schemes that people within "The Game" manage [. Click to continue reading...
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October 27, 2008

Frozen Out

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Looking at the average attendance tables for the Ryman League Division One North doesn't make for especially happy reading if you are interested in the well-being of the non league game in North-East London. The four smallest clubs in the division are all from that particular neck of the woods, with Ilford, Waltham Forest, Redbridge [. Click to continue reading...
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October 26, 2008

Draw Specialists

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The draw for the First Round of the FA Cup took place today and, after the shenanigans of last year's competition, there has been a considerable amount of interest in this year's draw. It is, for some clubs, the culmination of many weeks' hard work. The preliminary rounds started in August, and six rounds have [. Click to continue reading...
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October 24, 2008

Norton Utd 3 Holker OB 2 18-10-08

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Ground: Community Drive Date: Saturday 18th October 2008, 3.00 pm Competition: North West Counties League Div 1 Match: Norton Utd 3 Holker OB 2 HT: 1-2 Att: 65 Hughes 8 Bamber 18 (pen) Own goal 59 [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, Groundhopping, Non-League, Stadia, Grounds, Travelog, community drive, holker OB, norton, norton utd

October 17, 2008

Only two teams in Worthing

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As was touched upon here recently, Sussex is a county with a well-established and extensive non-league football structure. However, it's not something I was aware of at all until 1995, when I moved to West Sussex. Having grown up just outside Brighton, Brighton and Hove Albion were very much the only team on my [. Click to continue reading...
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October 14, 2008

Review: “A Season Of Sussex Soccer”, by David Bauckham & Terry Buckman

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Sussex is a strange county, in football terms. The combined counties of East & West Sussex have a population of just over a million and a half, but there is only one Football League club - Brighton & Hove Albion. The Seagulls completely dominate the counties' football headlines, but non-league football in the county is [. Click to continue reading...
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October 10, 2008

Showing The Way Forward

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Far from the contrived excitement of this weekend's international round of international matches (and, let's be honest, it's pretty difficult to get too worked up about England vs Kazakhstan), the FA Cup reaches its Third Qualifying Round. The prizes involved are starting to get substantial. The winners of matches being played on Saturday will be [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Non-League, latest

October 7, 2008

Facing The Fax

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Anybody that has ever worked in an office will be able to tell you that the humble fax machine is hardly one of the most reliable means of communication. I have spent many hours forlornly prodding at the keyboard on my office's fax machine, wondering why something that some promises me has been sent hasn't [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Non-League, latest, politics

October 3, 2008

The Friday List of Little or No Consequence #81

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Wembleys-in-waiting
The 15 Non-League Clubs With The Biggest Stadium Capacities

1. St. Helens Town (North West Counties, Premier Division) - 17,500
2. Wrexham (Conference National) - 15,500
3. Newcastle Blue Star (Northern Premier, Division One North) - 13,500
4. Oxford United (Conference National) - 12,500
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Tags: Culture, Non-League, Stadia, stadium

September 29, 2008

Rumour, Counter Rumour & Market Confidence

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Another week, and another batch of rumours concerning the financial well-being of clubs in the Blue Square Premier. Fortunately, at least some of the rumours flowing around over the last seven days or so appear not to have too much meat on them, though they do help to perpetuate the understanding (which comes close to [. Click to continue reading...
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Guiseley AFC

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Ground: Nethermoor Park Date: Saturday 27th September 2008, 3.00 pm Competition: FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Match:   Guiseley 2    Garforth 2 HT: 2-1 Att: 447                 Merris 31        Piper 40                 Hanson 37      Haywood 80                         Additional: Entrance: £7. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Edgar Allen Poe, England, FA Cup, Groundhopping, Guiseley, ITV Yorkshire, Nethermoor Park, Non-League, Stadia, Grounds, The Raven, Travelog, doubt, photos

September 28, 2008

Match Of The Week: Dulwich Hamlet 2-2 Hendon

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As September starts to roll into October, the evenings start to get shorter and the autumn leaves crispen and fall underfoot, The 2008/09 FA Cup continues to rumble on. We're at the Second Qualifying round stage now, and things are starting to become rather more serious than they were. This is the fourth round of [. Click to continue reading...
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September 18, 2008

Stable Management And The Conference

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An interesting article by David Conn in The Guardian yesterday highlighted steps being taken by the Football Conference to limit the boom and bust culture which has blighted the league over the last few seasons. They have lost Scarborough, Canvey Island, Halifax Town and Boston United in recent years, and drastic measures have been put [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Canvey Island, David Conn, Halifax Town, Non-League, guardian, latest

September 10, 2008

Worcester Sauce

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On the day that the England team are due to get a pasting in a World Cup qualifier, it feels apt that we should be dropping in on another team in crisis with a link to St George. St George's Lane, Worcester, was the venue of one of the FA Cup's greatest upsets. Liverpool weren't [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Liverpool, Non-League, World Cup Qualifier, clubs in crisis, latest, the game, venue

September 9, 2008

Review - “The Bromley Boys”, by Dave Roberts

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When one indulges themselves with such a singular adolescent pastime as watching your local non-league team home and away, it's easy to start believing that you're the only person in the whole world that does this. Non-league crowds are, by and large, old. The average teenage boy turning up at a grubby semi-professional football ground [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Crowds, Non-League, Professional Football, Reviews, football ground, the game

September 6, 2008

Newcastle Town

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Ground: Lyme Valley Stadium (2nd visit) Date: Saturday 30th August 2008, 3.00 pm Competition: FA Cup Preliminary Round Match:   Newcastle Town 0    Skelmersdale United 1 HT: 0-0 Att: 117                                                     Houghton 58             Additional: Entrance: £5. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, Groundhopping, Non-League, Stadia, Grounds, Travelog, photos

Dons On The Run

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September seems likely to see the closure of yet another famous, old North London football ground, as Hendon FC finally prepare to leave Claremont Road after a protracted battle which has seen the club sail close to the brink of receivership several times. At the time of writing, they still don't know when the final [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Non-League, clubs in crisis, football ground, latest

August 31, 2008

Match Of The Week - Shoreham 1-3 Kingstonian

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Middle Road, Shoreham, was not the scene of one of our greatest triumphs last season. We turned up there at the start of last season for Shoreham's FA Cup match against Horley Town and, at the end of the half-time break, whilst waiting for a drink at the bar, my eyes were drawn towards a [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Half Time, Non-League, latest, match of the week

August 30, 2008

A Rich Tapestry

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It's the Preliminary Round of The FA Cup this afternoon, which sees 332 teams taking part for a place in the First Qualifying Round of the competition. There are, as ever, some names that everyone remembers from some point in the past if you jog their memories hard enough. The ludicrously-named FC Halifax Town, who [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Non-League, latest, the game

August 25, 2008

Match Of The (Mid) Week - AFC Wimbledon 3-1 Bromley

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One of the more cunning ideas to have come about in recent years within non-league football has been the introduction of matches on the August Bank Holiday Monday. With the Premier League and Football Leagues not playing, it's a day for bumper crowds right at the start of the season, although the effect of going [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Crowds, English Premier League, Non-League, latest, match of the week

The Anorak World of the Unibond Northern Premier League

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Football is falling out of our every orifice as the new season arrives, but Chris Taylor suggests you delve in to the murky, anorak wearing world of the non-leagues. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Anorak, Culture, Lead Story, Non-League

Match Of The Week - St Albans City 1-2 Chelmsford City

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Throughout my youth, going to watch St Albans City play wasn't something that ordinarily provoked the senses very much. The Saints were experts at finishing somewhere between sixth and seventeenth in the league never unduly troubling the top or bottom of the table. I don't really know how I would have coped with going week [. Click to continue reading...
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August 24, 2008

FA CUP Ex Prelim Meir KA v Goodrich

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Ground: King's Park (2nd visit) Date: Wednesday 20th August 2008, 7.45 pm Competition: FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Replay Match:   Meir KA    4    Goodrich    4 AET FT: 3-3 5-4 on pens 2 HT: 1-1 Att: 76               Wright 25            Hughes 35               Maszkiel 87        Morgan 65 (Pen),80,97                                Chin-Shaw 90, 105 Additional: Entrance: £4 Programme: £1 Hot drinks: Coffee 75p Tea 50p This match is what the FA Cup is all about. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, FA Cup, Groundhopping, Non-League, Stadia, Grounds, Travelog, replay, shaw

August 20, 2008

Merthyr Most Foul

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Football club implosions can take several different forms, to the point that it is is probably fair to say that there is no one route to insolvency. Sometimes, mere spending beyond one's means for a season is enough to have grim long-term ramifications, as happened to Bradford City, who are still paying the price for [. Click to continue reading...
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August 14, 2008

An Early Kick-Off

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Has it really been just ninety-one days since the 2008 FA Cup Final? Apparently it has, but the FA Cup gets back under way this weekend with the Extra Preliminary Round. On Saturday afternoon, 406 entrants will take their marks, dreaming of the twin tower, meeting the Queen... well, probably not. For clubs entering the [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , FA Cup, Non-League, Queen, fa cup final, latest, the game

August 11, 2008

Match Of The Week - Wrexham vs Stevenage Borough

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It is, perhaps, no great surprise that the two most funereal evictions from the Football League since the introduction of automatic promotion and relegation between Division Four and the Conference in 1987 both involved Welsh clubs. In the case of Newport County in 1988, it was like witnessing the last day at work of a [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Football League, Non-League, latest, match of the week, relegation, the game

August 8, 2008

Non-League Preview 2008/09

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Right, here we go, then. The new season starts for the Blue Square, Ryman, Unibond and BGB Southern Leagues tomorrow, so I've managed to fit in a quick preview of what I think is going to unfold this season. Last season was a good season for well-run clubs, but this year looks like being a [...] Click to continue reading...
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