Remember, remember the fifth of November well, some Conference North fans would probably rather not remember a Saturday speckled with nasty incidents which hardly cover the league in glory.

Accusations of racist abuse on the field, alleged violence and a goalkeeper sent off for throwing a firework into a stand (no really) have left a grubby stain on the northern half of Step 2.

Remember, remember the fifth of November well, some Conference North fans would probably rather not remember a Saturday speckled with nasty incidents which hardly cover the league in glory.

Accusations of racist abuse on the field, alleged violence and a goalkeeper sent off for throwing a firework into a stand (no really) have left a grubby stain on the northern half of Step 2.

As ever, it was down to the supporters of the club to get to what looks like somewhere near the bottom of what has been going on. It was probably too much to hope that, after a unanimous vote at their SGM last week, the Wrexham Supporters Trust would merely be allowed to get on with the job of completing their due diligence and purchasing Wrexham Football Club, but the way in which the story has continued to expand out over the last six days is enough to start to cast doubt over whether several of the key players in this ridiculously distended story and not, as we will make clear, players from the side of the trust organisation itself have an agenda which is intent on torpedoing the bid for their own ends.

Last year was pretty clear cut in the Conference North, Alfreton were pretty much definitely going up despite having a ridiculous backlog of games, the play-off places were fairly clear early on and Redditch were dropping like a stone from around February time, but this season it looks set to be a bit closer at both ends of the table and closer still in the middle.

Last year was pretty clear cut in the Conference North, Alfreton were pretty much definitely going up despite having a ridiculous backlog of games, the play-off places were fairly clear early on and Redditch were dropping like a stone from around February time, but this season it looks set to be a bit closer at both ends of the table and closer still in the middle.

Swansea City will become the first Welsh team to play in the English Premier League in the 2011-2012 season, following their victory in the Championship play-off final on Monday. As I write, thousands are out on the streets of Swansea celebrating as the team bus drives through the southern Welsh city.

There was, perhaps, something inevitable that it would all come down to a ninety minute shoot-out. That FC United of Manchester is in itself an extraordinary part of our football culture is without doubt, but even the most optimistic of their supporters could scarcely have guessed at the amount of drama that they have managed this season, from an FA Cup run that took in a last minute win at Rochdale and a last minute penalty save at Brighton to a league season that saw them end last year nearer to relegation than the play-off places, yet has ended up on the North Wales coast on a Bank Holiday Monday, with 2,000 people packed inside Llanelian Road and hundreds more perched atop a hill overlooking the ground.

Sunshine, Seasides & Seagulls Colwyn Bay 1-0 Retford United (02:03:11) Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Rhys Wynne.... It's good fun and slightly annoying being a Colwyn Bay fan. With its location on the North Wales coast, we don't have any real local rivals. Instead, people actually enjoy us as an away day – particularly if we are an away day in August towards the end of the season.