Numbers And Satisfaction On The Opening Day Of The Season
Perusing acres of statistics that can be found in newspapers on the opening weekend of the football season can be a most enlightening way to pass the couple of hours,...
Posts Tagged: "Darlington"
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...
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...
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: 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...
Light At The End Of Darlington’s Tunnel
The phrase “emotional rollercoaster” is one that is overused in football these days, but the supporters of Darlington FC are rapidly becoming more than familiar with the term after another...
Darlington’s Second Final Day Of Reckoning Approaches
It is a sobering thought to consider that, for all the hard work and drama involved in keeping Darlington FC alive just nine days ago, the looming deadline over the...
Top Versus Bottom In The Blue Square Premier
Two matches in the Blue Square Premier brought together four clubs from directly opposite ends of the football spectrum yesterday and, while the results of those matches were hardly unexpected,...
Tales From The Deep End: Non-League Football’s Difficult Start To 2012
This year has been a difficult year so far for several of our non-league clubs. Mike Bayly has a round-up of what has been going on at the foot of...
When The Clock Struck Thirteen: Darlington FC Goes To The Wire
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There can be few other sets of football supporters that have had to bear up to the sort...
What Today At Darlington Tells Us About Lower Division Football
At the exact time of writing (almost one thirty in the afternoon), we do not know whether Darlington FC has been rescued or not. What we can say for certain...
High Noon For Darlington
At the end of yesterday, Darlington FC remained alive albeit on life support. Today, however, stories started to emerge which threaten to fragment an increasingly fractious fan-base as the matter...
Rifts & Distrust Threaten To Kill Darlington For Good
It is very much a sign of the times that £50,000 is not a great deal of money to a football club in trouble playing in the fifth division of...
Mixed Signals & Bad News From Darlington
There may only be a couple of days left to go. Darlington FC continue to stare into the abyss and the comments of the club’s joint administrator, Harvey Madden, in...
With Their Heads Held High: A Darlington Fan’s Call To Arms
There has been, as has seemed perpetual over the last few months or so, a lot of bad news about recently....
Darlington FC Hangs By A Thread
The news came through with startling speed, another rumour that swelled to an almost bewildering succession of public statements in just a few short hours. At the end of yesterday,...
An Unhappy New Year At Darlington
A new year may have begun, but familiar problems are already starting to make themselves clear with conflicting stories concerning the well-being of Blue Square Premier club Darlington....
Non-League Videos Of The Week: 20-11-2011
We have five matches for you this week as our non-league videos of the week. First up is the match from the Blue Square Premier between Ebbsfleet United and a...
Darlington’s Future In Doubt – Yet Again
Over the last few years it has become one of English footballs most instantly recognisable totems of the folly of ego, and now it seems as if The Reynolds Arena...
Those We Have Lost: Feethams, Darlington
Next up in our series on the lost football grounds of Britain, comes one of the most poignant stories of all. Darlington left Feethams for The Reynolds Arena in 2003,...