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FA VASE FACTFILE: Vase history in the making

17 September 2023 0 comments

348 clubs will compete in 174 ties for the chance to appear in the first round of the FA Vase.

A route one glory trail

10 September 2023 0 comments

Tony INCENZO Talking Points THEIR name may suggest they adapt a more outdated approach, but manager Sohail Abbas Rehman knows […]

Mitch is back in the groove

3 September 2023 0 comments

Mitch Walker knew it was a bad news phone call when the doctor asked him to sit down first.

STEVE HILL: Great to be back on the road

27 August 2023 0 comments

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 A GROUND HOPPER: Real Bedford 4-1 FC Clacton

27 August 2023 0 comments

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 for smiles all round

20 August 2023 0 comments

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: It began with a brain storm

20 August 2023 0 comments

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 VASE FACTFILE: ‘50 club’ leading the way to Wembley

20 August 2023 0 comments

The 2023-24 FA Vase, which gets underway this weekend, marks the 50th year the competition has been been contested.

DIARY OF A GROUND HOPPER: Horbury Town 1-4 Louth Town

20 August 2023 0 comments

Horbury Town joined the Northern Counties East League last season. I fully intended to pay the club a visit but never managed to get around to it. This season, I am determined to tick off the Juice Personnel Stadium in double-quick time.

DIARY OF A GROUND HOPPER: Hucknall Town 1-1 Wisbech Town

13 August 2023 0 comments

After last night’s enjoyable opener of The United Counties League Groundhop at Saffron Dynamo, I am joined for today’s four Hop games by The Fox and Essex Joe.

FA CUP FACTFILE: Lydd are opening up a new legacy

13 August 2023 0 comments

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: This year’s five big issues

13 August 2023 0 comments

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.

It’s Ay-ok in a day to remember for Okes

13 August 2023 0 comments

FA Cup fever swept through the northern edge of Dartmoor last Saturday when Okehampton Argyle relished their debut in the world famous competition.

DIARY OF A GROUND HOPPER: Saffron Dynamo 1-5 Birstall United

6 August 2023 0 comments

A few Notts County youth friendlies and three highly enjoyable Khalsa tournaments have kept me going over the summer but now the new season proper begins.