Final Whistle

To the Hinterlandsfor the love of the game.
with Chris Towers

TAKING a train with a friend from Nottingham to Birmingham to walk the canal to Wolverhampton, before watching the JW Hunt Trophy final at Molineux one Tuesday evening in May demonstrated my love for the Non-League game.
One does not easily walk 15 miles along an urban canal, and risk missing the last train home from Birmingham to Nottingham without passion for the game.
The final, between Tividale and Lichfield City, awaited as I passed through areas both deprived and yet also rich in England’s industrial past. T...

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