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Steve Hill: The cure for winter blues

26 January 2025 0 comments

For better or worse, football is one of the few outdoor sports that is played in all seasons, providing a challenge to players and supporters alike.

FA Trophy Factfile: Best-yet Brickies bring up their 50 in style

26 January 2025 0 comments

The lowest ranked club still in this season’s FA Trophy, Isthmian South East club Sittingbourne FC, are also appearing at this stage of the competition for the first time in the club’s 50th Trophy campaign – a competition record for the most campaigns before reaching the last 16.

FA Vase Factfile: North Shields alone in eyeing a Wembley return

26 January 2025 0 comments

Evan though half of the clubs still involved in this season’s FA Vase are appearing in the fifth round for the first ever time, there is also still a former winner looking to return to Wembley ten years after their last visit.

Gregor Robertson: A farewell to the fairytale

19 January 2025 0 comments

Non-League representation in the FA Cup is over for another year, and it’s hard to shake the feeling that there will be fewer of the stories that make the competition special now that replays are a thing of the past.

Diary of a ground hopper: Belper Town 0-1 North Ferriby

19 January 2025 0 comments

It seems Mrs Fox wants rid of the man of the house so she can watch Nottingham Forest on the telly in peace – apparently, she is actively searching out a game for us!

Millwall v Dagenham & Redbridge: We had spirit, we feared no-one

12 January 2025 0 comments

TOY metal detectors, choreographed celebrations on They Think It’s All Over, a hat-trick of epic runs to the third round and even beyond – they don’t make them quite like Dagenham & Redbridge’s FA Cup kings of the early noughties.

Adam Virgo: Get ready for a title race to savour

5 January 2025 0 comments

The National League title race is already shaping up to be a great one.

Final Whistle: A sporting charm beside the seaside

5 January 2025 0 comments

CHRIS TOWERS, poet and writer of the NLP column ‘Final Whistle’ took himself to Scarborough for the National League North game between Scarborough Athletic and Peterborough Sports.

Adam Virgo: You’ll be like kids at Christmas

5 January 2025 0 comments

Set plays, corners – and in the case of Tamworth’s Tom Tonks – long throws, FA Cup upsets are built on key moments falling the underdogs’ way.

FA Vase Factfile: Club records mark a year of Vase firsts

5 January 2025 0 comments

Twenty-five of the 32 clubs involved in this season’s Isuzu FA Vase fourth round have the chance of setting or equalling their best Vase runs – that’s a massive 78% of clubs.

Non-League: My top ten trips of 2024

29 December 2024 0 comments

I’VE travelled thousands of miles attending nearly 70 Non-League matches over the past 12 months.

My top ten trips of 2024 – Tony Incenzo

29 December 2024 0 comments

Tony Incenzo- Talksport radio’s Non-League Expert I’ve travelled thousands of miles attending nearly 70 Non-League matches over the past 12 […]

Clinton Morrison: We’re making more inroads

15 December 2024 0 comments

Clinton Morrison has praised the work of the Premier League’s Communities and Wider Football scheme – after taking a trip down memory lane.

Matt Badcock: A home is where the heart is!

15 December 2024 0 comments

WHAT’S it like building a football stadium? “Very stressful and very expensive – apart from that, great fun,” Cambridge City chairman Kevin Satchell says, dryly.