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.
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.
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.
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.
View the full story here: The Mail
A news article on 2012-01-08 01:07:10 from: The Mail
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
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.
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.
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.
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.
