Steve Hill

This is where you will find all of the Non-League Football Paper’s Steve Hill news, opinion and content.

We fans love a good moan

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STEVE HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS According to a recent imaginary survey, at least 90 per cent of supporting a football […]

STEVE HILL: Footy fest is pure TV gold!

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“Without going out of your door, you can know all things on earth.”

George Harrison may have had more transcendental matters in mind, but in many ways the meditative moptop could have been singing about the advent of National League TV.

STEVE HILL: Great to be back on the road

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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.

STEVE HILL: I’m so in love with loanees

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“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” wrote Shakespeare. Easily said, but Shakespeare didn’t have to find 11 fit bodies for a gruelling two games per week schedule with nary a pot to pass water in.

STEVE HILL: TV gold from my armchair!

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The last time I graced these pages was to berate the winter World Cup and its devastating impact on the domestic calendar.

Hypocritically, I have of course watched every match so far, on occasion while listening to live commentary of Chester FC tearing up the National League North.

STEVE HILL: A game for the purists

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A Liverpool fan recently asked me what team I support. Truthfully replying “Chester” I was greeted by that familiar look of disbelief, pity and disgust, with no further questions proffered, as if he had perhaps misheard.

STEVE HILL: Mainly downs but the odd up

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I WAS once advised to enjoy the cyclical nature of football. Wise words, but they provided scant consolation as I drove myself and The Boy from London to Alfreton for Chester’s season opener a couple of weeks ago.

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