Christmas is just around the corner, so we at The Non-League Paper thought it’s time to get in the festive mood with a little help from our friends at KA Goalkeeping.
He’s had emulsion and bleach all over them, but ask one-time £3.5m Premier League star Garry Flitcroft if he regrets getting his hands dirty in Non-League management and the answer is resounding.
It was last February 9, the penultimate home game of Paul Buckle’s reign, when the Kenilworth Road PA man read out the Luton team to take on Forest Green.
Former Thurrock manager Hakan Hayrettin has told of his fears that match-fixing could have been going on in Non-League football for years – and how he voiced his suspicions over players in his own team.
Fraser Franks and James Norwood may have got the goals, but Paul Fairclough reckons his late father Eric lays claim to an assist on an emotional night for the England C manager.
Most people born in the 1950s or earlier have been recounting this week where they were when they heard Kennedy had been shot, with Friday being the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
AFC Fylde are another of those Non-League clubs that use the ‘a’ word…. “ambition”. But unlike some that love to play down their investment, they make little attempt to hide it.
I HAVEN’T been fortunate to be selected for the England C squad to represent my country, but if I did get the opportunity, I would cherish the moment with passion and pride.
It’s August in the home dressing room at Shortwood United’s quaint Meadowbank ground, and Alex Sykes is borrowing from one of his old bosses as he sets out his Step 4 side’s targets for the season.