Three Up, Three Down & The Stigma Of Non-League Football
Earlier this week, a curious Early Day Motion was presented to parliament. Early Day Motions are one of the more endearing quirks of our antiquated parliamentary system, allowing Members of...
Category "Non-League"
Truro Citys Unexpected £700,000 Headache
The end of last summer didn’t work out too well for Kevin Heaney, the property-developing owner of Blue Square Bet South side Truro City, when his attempts to by Plymouth...
Next Years FA Cup May Leave A Nasty Taste In The Mouth
Over the last few years, we have come to worry more than a little about the well-being of the FA Cup. Semi-finals at Wembley Stadium, falling television audiences for the...
100 Owners: Number 94 – Mazhar Majeed (Croydon Athletic)
It is very seldom that a non-league football club makes the headlines of a national newspaper for any reason other than a surprise result in the FA Cup, but at...
Last Rolls Of The Dice? The FA Charge Kettering’s “Saviour”
Quietly and without comment from the club concerned, a message appeared on the Football Associations website earlier today which confirmed a most curious piece of news. George Rolls, the acting...
Time For Darlington To Prepare For Life In The Northern League
The first round of this years AGM Cup was completed with the FAs initial announcement of which clubs will be playing in which division next season, then, and the two...
George Rolls, Kettering Town & The Morals Of Insolvency
One of the great conceits of recent years in terms of the way that football clubs are run has been that there is a greater degree of transparency in the...
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...
George Rolls At Kettering: Advisor Or Shadow Director?
In the end, Kettering Town’s wretched season ended with a whimper rather than a bang. They finished the season with just thirty points, rooted to the bottom of the Blue...
Non-League Videos Of The Week: 14/05/2012
Well, this is the final edition of Non-League Videos Of The Week for this season, but we do at least have a round-up games that are well worth an hour...
Guernsey FC: Mission Accomplished At The End Of Season One
At the start of the season, Andy Ollerenshaw was kind enough to tell us the story of Guernsey FC, the first club from the Channel Islands to take a place...
This Is Enfield: The Towners Resume Their Upward Trajectory
The end of season play-offs are both exhilarating and exhausting. For the clubs that finish in places just below the automatic promotion places, everything comes down those two or three...
Darlington FC: Saved, But At A Price
As has happened before in the recent history of the club, the battle to save Darlington FC went to the wire. Another deadline was hanging over the club this week...
Non-League Videos Of The Week: 29/04/2012
This weekend saw the end of the normal season for many of the leagues below the Football League and the beginning of the play-offs in some. This weekend, we’re going...
Whitehawk FC: Nouveau Riche Out-Muscle The Old Stagers
After nine months and thirty-nine matches, then, it all came down to ninety minutes on the final day of the season in the Ryman League Division One South yesterday. That...
Final Day Shoot-Outs In The Ryman League
It is not that often that league title races are open enough to go to the final day of the season with the whereabouts of the championship trophy still undecided,...
Northwich Victoria: Time To Step Away From This Sinking Ship
There is always something faintly pathetic about the list of creditors for a football club’s proposed CVA. It’s not so much the big creditors that sink the heart – after...
Northwich Victoria: The 1874 Protests Come To Gigg Lane
Under normal circumstances, the last game of the season should be a cause for celebration for clubs near the top of their respective tables. On Saturday at Gigg Lane, however,...
Non-League Videos Of The Week: 22-04-2012
It’s the penultimate week of the non-league season, and while most of the championship issues have now been resolved there are still relegation places to be filled at the bottom...