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A route

A route one glory trail

Tony INCENZO Talking Points THEIR name may suggest they adapt a more outdated approach, but manager Sohail Abbas Rehman knows […]

STEVE HILL:

STEVE HILL: Great to be back on the road

Hello, it’s good to be back. I don’t mean me – although it has been a while – but the football season and hence the welcome resumption of normal service. Despite decades of practice, football’s close season is a tricky beast to negotiate.

DIARY OF

DIARY OF A GROUND HOPPER: Real Bedford 4-1 FC Clacton

Peter McCormack’s bold announcement about plans to take Real Bedford into the Premier League was dismissed with the same “Oh no, here we go again” reaction that all other big money men receive when taking over a club and making similar bold claims.

Trust HUST

Trust HUST for smiles all round

Football fans can so often be relied on to do good things and it’s no different when it comes to the Hereford United Supporters’ Trust and their new Community Social Inclusion project in partnership with Hereford FC.

MATT BADCOCK:

MATT BADCOCK: It began with a brain storm

Luton Town playing their first ever game in the Premier League brought to mind that great John Still quote having watched them lose 2-0 to Braintree Town just hours after he’d left Dagenham & Redbridge to take over as Hatters boss.

FA CUP

FA CUP FACTFILE: Lydd are opening up a new legacy

272 clubs are involved in the FA Cup preliminary round as the remaining Step 4 teams join those from Steps 4 to 6 which made it through the extra preliminary round, including FA Cup debutants Okehampton Argyle, the only Step 6 club to definitely be involved in this round so far.

MARK HARRIS:

MARK HARRIS: This year’s five big issues

What do we all do in the close season? Some eagerly await new signings, complain when the fixtures aren’t out at the same time as the Premier League (“Workington away on a Tuesday, AGAIN!”) and daydream about winning the League by Christmas.

CHRIS DUNLAVY:

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Grigg’s his own man in the box

Will Grigg spoke last week of being inspired to join Chesterfield after watching Welcome to Wrexham.

Yet Paul Mullin, one of the documentary’s standout performers both on and off the pitch, has set the 32-year-old an intimidatingly high bar.