Football’s Not Coming Home: Gloucester City’s New Ground Plans Falter
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The AGM cup 2012 – Mystic Rhys predicts
It’s the end of the season, and York City have won the final playoff game to secure their return football league. Now, the process of positioning teams in various leagues...
Match of the Weekend 4 – The Conference Playoff Final – York City 2 – 1 Luton Town
“We’re a Football League club, how good is that?” – Gary Mills’ reaction to York City’s return to the league was typically unshowy, embodying the calm, quiet way the Minstermen...
Queens Park Rangers beat the Premier League drop: Why it matters
At 15.45 last Sunday it was all pretty much over. Despite a valiant park-the-bus effort, my beloved Queens Park Rangers were a goal down at Manchester City. And, horror of...
A Bird’s Eye View: The BBC Tackles Sexism In Football
The wry announcement beforehand ‘so *is* there sexism in football?’ wasn’t a great start was it? Neither was scheduling it for 10.45pm, tucked away after the lottery draw. Okay, so...
On The Brink: Field Mill Forever (Or How Mansfield Town Got Their Ground Back)
Hidden away among the doom and gloom spreading through football like a plague, borne on the backs of greedy money-men, is a shimmering chink of light with the news that...
Truro vs The Taxman: A Happy Ending?
Shortly before 12.30pm today @TruroCityTweet declared ‘ALL CLEAR FOR CITY -TAX BILL PAID IN FULL’ (their capitals not mine but worthy of shouting nonetheless) and it seemed in light of...
The Changing Fortunes Of Cheltenham Town
A plum FA Cup tie away at Tottenham Hotspur, an unbeaten run away from home and whispers of a promotion push – when did all start going so right for Cheltenham...
Ugly Scenes: A Bad Day In The Conference North
Remember, remember the fifth of November – well, some Conference North fans would probably rather not remember a Saturday speckled with nasty incidents which hardly cover the league in glory....
Fear & Loathing At Coronation Park: What Is Going On At Eastwood?
Something may or may not be going on at Eastwood Town Football Club but it’s increasingly difficult to make any sense of the situation....
Pants And Publicity For Bath City
How often does an FA Youth Cup game get national coverage? I’m not talking ages old clips of a young Wayne Rooney or David Beckham or John Terry replayed in some...
Cupset In The South West: Mangotsfield And Chippenham’s Early Exit
The FA Cup hasn’t even reached the second qualifying round yet but already a second club in the South West has been kicked out of the competition. Mangotsfield United, who...
A Woman In A Mans(field) World?
Mansfield Town have a new CEO, a 29-year-old who has a politics degree and has previously worked for some big fashion brands. Succeeding Steve Barker, the previous CEO, who has now...
Non-League Videos of the Week: 28/08/11
With the leagues in full swing there have been goals galore this week, up near the top of the pyramid Fleetwood were beat by Barrow in the week, finally conceding...
Food For Thought At Forest Green Rovers
After another close shave with relegation last year Forest Green Rovers have enjoyed a decent start to the season, they’ve picked up a few points, turned down an offer from...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-season Predictions: The Southern Premier League
The Southern Premier League has a new sponsor this year, the same one as its northern counterpart so make sure you don’t confuse the two. Helpful. Anyway, teamwise the biggest...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-Season Predictions: Conference South
There is a lot of money flying about in the Blue Square South this season as the teams jostle to fill the void at the top left by Braintree Town...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-Season Predictions: Conference North
Last year was pretty clear cut in the Conference North, Alfreton were pretty much definitely going up despite having a ridiculous backlog of games, the play-off places were fairly clear...
Back From The Brink? Almondsbury Town Live On, For Now
In the same week that Gloucestershire FA Chairman Roger Burden was elected Vice-Chair of the national FA, there was another bit of good news from his ‘patch.’ Almondsbury Town FC...