It was appropriate for Wayne Hatswell to announce he was hanging up his boots on FA Cup first round weekend, exactly 12 years after his name first came to prominence on Match of the Day.
Last Sunday Dorchester Town player-coach Mark Jermyn used the ESPN cameras to tell his boss at the insurance firm where he works that he might be nursing a sore head the following morning.
Critics of football’s loan market are many, and I have been one of them when a team lends a player to a club in the same division, but heavily subsidises their wages.
Non-League players are being reminded by the FA that it is not only those in the Premier League and Football League in danger of falling foul of social networking sites.
The October 31 deadline for the Budweiser Club Futures programme is fast approaching, and completing your club’s application in time could prove to be just as important as any last-minute-winner.