VETERAN striker Andy Bishop has been put in caretaker charge of National League side Southport until the end of the season following the departure of Dino Maamria.
BOTH Step 3 clubs have it all to do in the FA Trophy semi-final second legs after losing their home games but both Nantwich Town and Bognor Regis Town put on good showings in front of their own fans.
NEIL ASPIN reckons Gateshead “threw away” the chance of a trip to Wembley after being dumped out of the FA Trophy by former club FC Halifax Town on penalties.
MATTY BROWN says he would be lying if he said he wasn’t excited by a possible trip to Wembley after scoring the decisive penalty to send FC Halifax Through to the FA Trophy semi-finals.
JON PARKIN scored twice to keep up the pressure on National League leaders Cheltenham Town and ‘The Beast’ was rightly placed into our National League team of the day.
WHEN Dino Maamria pulled off his driveway on November 21 with two job offers on the table he didn’t honestly know which football club’s doorstep he would be turning up on later that afternoon.
NEIL ASPIN has been told for years he’ll be Gateshead’s manager one day – but knows to take his hometown club up, he’ll have to get the public back onside quickly.
THE draw for the first round proper of The FA Trophy was made at Wembley this lunchtime, with the Vanarama National League big guns now entering the competition.