By HUGO VARLEY

“During those early years we never believed that the quality of the division would be anywhere near as strong as it is now,” Hunter told The NLP. “The original concept of forming one top league began in the 1970s but it took a number of years of planning before the Alliance Premier League was formed.
“To begin with things were pretty unsteady because the Isthmian League, which was a purely an amateur league, did not want to get involved for the first two years. “The most important thing was trying to get them on board. It involved a lot of neg...