Our series of posts this week has analysed the various impacts geography can have on the fortunes of soccer clubs. To round things off, we thought we would examine a cross section of eight cities, towns and city regions which can be said to be under performing in football terms and which may or may not have the potential to rise to Championship status or above.

The Easter weekend is important across the whole of football, but in the non-league season, which starts earlier than some professional leagues, it can be make or break time for the whole season of a club. This weekend, we've got matches from the Blue Square Premier, the Blue Square South, the Northern Premier League and the Northern League.

This week's non-league videos of the week come from the Blue Square Bet Premier, the Blue Square Bet South, the Ryman League and the quarter-finals of this year's FA Vase. Our first match comes from Haig Avenue and is between a Southport team which a little surprisingly is still in the play-off places at the top of the table and a Newport County team which has seen a recent run of improved form lift their club out of the relegation places at the foot of the table.

How are the supporters of a football club to judge a new owner? Perhaps the answer to that is the question of how desperate for a new owner they are, but even in the most extreme of circumstances, one common theme of recent years has been that supporters have been more prepared to carry out their own due diligence on those that turn up, out of the blue, promising to repair their clubs.

We have five matches for you this evening, from the Blue Square Premier to Division One Central of the Southern League, and finishing off with the Premier Division of the Super League in Scotland. First up is a match that we have already mentioned on this site today, the Blue Square Premier match between Wrexham and Kettering Town.

It's a story that has dominated the club over the past 10 days or so. Rumours began flying round that Preston were interested in Graham Westley just a couple of days before the 3rd round FA Cup tie against Reading. At first it just seemed to be rumours. But the rumours didn't stop. Instead, they just gathered pace and it became clear at the beginning of the week that Preston were not only interested in Westley, but that Westley was interested in Preston.

Mail: Tom Adeyemi turned down place at Cambridge to become a footballer

On Saturday afternoon, 20-year-old Thomas Oleseun Adeyemi turned off his mobile phone and went shopping with his girlfriend, a desperate attempt to find some kind of normality.

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By Alan Duffy

Ahead of this weekend's FA Cup games, we thought it only right to bring you just a teeny weeny taste of the 'Magic of the Cup™' courtesy of one Wayne Hatswell, a name that will live long in the memory (possibly) a man who, in one moment of pure unadulterated technical incompetence, smashed home arguably the worst own-goal ever.

By Chris Wright

Darren Bent has apologised to Villa fans after a photo of him out Christmas shopping in Cambridge was circulated around Twitter while his teammates were busy losing to Liverpool yesterday.

It's worth mentioning that Bent had been ruled out of the match after suffering a thigh injury in the week but, after undergoing two hours of physio on Sunday morning at Villa's Bodymoor Heath training complex, he was under club doctor's instructions to go home and watch the match on television which he did, until he got bored in the second half and popped out for some bits.

France - USA is at 3pm on ESPN2 and Univision. EURO 2012 qualifying on ESPN Deportes: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Portugal at 2pm and Turkey - Croatia at 4pm. ESPN Deportes also has the Ukraine - Germany friendly at 6pm. Univision has Mexico - Serbia at 9pm. FA Cup on Fox Soccer: Cambridge - Wrexham at 2:30pm.

Boston College, Boston University, and Harvard University are among the 64 schools that earned bids for the 2011 NCAA Division 1 Women's Soccer Championship after the tournament brackets were released on Monday.

Up at the Heights, Boston College went 11-5-2, and finished fourth in the perennially competitive Atlantic Coast Conference.

We have matches for you this evening, as our Non-League Videos Of The Week. Our first comes from the Blue Square Premier, and is the match between Mansfield Town and Cambridge United. Our second is from the Blue Square South, and is between Woking and Havant & Waterlooville. We then have two matches from this weekend's FA Trophy Second Qualifying Round, with Bury Town playing Hythe Town, and Hednesford Town playing Matlock Town.

We know many of you have been closely monitoring the stars from the recent FIFA U-17 World Cup and one of them is Lucas Piazon, Chelsea's new talented winger and Kaka's 17-year-old younger "twin" from another dad (and possibly One Direction's sixth band member).

David Bridges has returned to Kettering Town, 3 years after he made the move in the opposite direction to sign for Graham Westley's revolution. A lot has changed in those 3 years. Boro have gone from annual underachievers in the Conference to punching above their weight in League 1. That is ultimately the reason why Bridges' time at Broadhall Way has been cut short.

A few weeks ago I commented on MK Dons striker Sam Baldock's decision to favour heart over head and spurn newly promoted Peterborough's advances. Baldock claimed not to have felt excited by the prospect of a move to Posh, and I praised his honesty, speculating as to how often the inane smiles of new signings paraded before fans and media 'mask an expression of grim resignation at having been

This isn't going to be a normal preview, but then again it's not a normal game. Stevenage travel up to the North West and Old Trafford with League 1 football firmly in their sights. Torquay are the only team that stands between us visiting Bramhall Lane rather than Underhill. The loser will have to make a visit to Accrington again, while the winner gets to take in Preston and Milton Keynes.

The landscape of the lower divisions has, perhaps, changed more than we have noticed over the last couple of decades. Twenty years ago, Luton Town were in the First Division and had been there for some time, while Wrexham were finishing at the bottom of Division Four. Both teams were, arguably, a little lucky.

Northampton 2-0 Stevenage (Davis 3, Uwezu 59)
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Our play-off hopes remain in the balance after a disappointing defeat at Sixfields against Northampton. Thanks to Macclesfield's 4-2 victory against Gillingham, we remain in the top 7, but now have it all to do next week against already promoted Bury.

No, not a tale about drunken Englishmen's antics in the fleshpots of South East Asia but heady interviews with people in football!
Daniel Bennett - born England, now Singapore international defenderDaniel Hanmmond - ex Cambridge United trainee now in his 4th year in SingaporeZesh Rehman - former Bradford City, now in ThailandLee Hendrie - former England international now in illegal leagueDavid Booth - former Grimsby coach interviewed while coach of Laos national teamSteve Darby - been there, done that in Asia!

Se que a este espacio entran muchas aficionadas al mejor jugador mexicano de estos momentos, Javier ¨Chicharito¨ Hernandez y que ademas este muchacho tiene un éxito total dentro y fuera de la cancha.

Pues como ya muchos han de saber este joven mexicano tiene una relación, antes de partir a jugar con Manchester United a Inglaterra, El Chicharito salía con una joven tapatía llamada Leticia Sahagún con quien tenia o tiene una relación de 2 años.