Due to other commitments, this weeks non-league videos of the week are a little late but we have seven matches from seven different competitions for you this evening, from the Blue Square Bet Premier to the FA Vase. Our first match comes from Princes Park, and is the Blue Square Bet Premier match between Dartford and Hereford United.
Reading FC will start their second spell in the Premier League next season having emerged from
the pack in the Championship to lift the title by a single, solitary point. This, however, is a
club with a very lengthy history. Founded in 1871, Reading joined the Football League in 1920, but
the amount of time that they spent in the lower divisions means that finding archive footage of
them can be a little tricky.
It was, as you will no doubt be aware by now, the twentieth anniversary of the start of the
Premier League next month, but what will likely be forgotten in the slew of retrospectives is the
fact that just three days after the behemoth which has come to eat English football in that
intervening two decades the Football League saw its last to date resignation during the season.
Cup finals are in the air for our Non-League Videos Of The Week for this week. In the FA Trophy,
a place at Wembley was at stake as the second leg of the semi-finals was played between Luton Town
& York City, and Newport County & the only non-Blue Square Bet Premier side left in the
competition, Wealdstone.
This week's non-league videos of the week features four matches from the Second Round of the FA
Trophy. With only thirty-two teams left in the competition at this stage, the scent of a Wembley
final is starting to drift into the air, and our four matches tonight feature twenty-five goals.
First up is a match between two clubs that are owned by their supporters, as Ebbsfleet United of
the Blue Square Premier play Chester of the Northern Premier League.
Refreshed and reposed after a break for Christmas, we're back this morning with a double dose of
Non-League Videos Of The Week. We have a couple of matches from the Blue Square Premier coming up a
little later this morning, but we are starting off with five of Boxing Day's matches from the Blue
Square South.
After all the excitement of the recent rounds of cup matches in the FA Cup and FA Trophy over
the last couple of weeks, it was back to the league for non-league football this weekend, and we
have highlights from six matches for you this evening. From the Blue Square Premier, we have the
match between Forest Green Rovers and Lincoln City.
A trip to Wembley is starting to come into view for the non-league clubs that are still involved
in this year's FA Trophy, but yesterday's First Round matches saw the qualifiers from the last
round joined by the clubs of the Blue Square Premier and we have highlights and goals from no less
than seven of yesterday's matches.
This week's Non-League Videos of The Week are a day late, but we think that we they are are
worth the wait. This week, we are concentrating on the Third Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy.
With a place in the First Round of the competition at stake, this is a competition with a very
tangible prize at the end of it a day out at Wembley come the end of the season.
This weekend, the FA Cup reached its final qualifying round and the introduction of the clubs of
the Blue Square Premier adds a little extra spice to the competition as well. Everybody that took
to the pitch in this competition at the weekend went into their match knowing that a live
appearance on ITV and a sizeable pay day could well be on the cards if they could just get over
this hurdle, and this evening we have four matches from this round of the competition.
We have six matches for you as non-league videos of the week, from three different competitions.
First of all, we have two matches from the Blue Square Premier, between AFC Telford United and
Gateshead, and Mansfield Town and Alfreton Town. Next up, we have three matches from the First
Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy, the matches between Bedworth United and Hednesford Town,
Dartford and Truro City, and Weymouth and AFC Totton.
We have two posts making up our non-league videos of the week for this week, kicking off with
three matches from the Third Qualifying Round of this year's FA Cup. The clubs taking this part in
this round of the competition will take their place against those of the Blue Square Premier in its
final qualifying round, and should they win this match they will be have a chance of a live
television appearance and the sort of prize money which can make a serious difference to the
well-being of a non-league club.
This weekend's non-league videos of the week come from the Blue Square Premier and the Second
Qualifying Round of the FA Cup. In the Blue Square Premier, AFC Telford United have reacted
positively to their promotion from the Blue Square North at the end of last season and sit in
mid-table in the division at present and they were at home against Hayes & Yeading United, who were
the beneficiaries of Kettering Town's generosity and subsequent implosion on Tuesday night.
There was a full round of matches in all three divisions the Football Conference this week, and
it looks like being a very tight season in the Conference South. Today, there are just ten points
between the team at the top of the table and the team in fourteenth place, and there seems little
between the top three sides, with others lower down the table looking more than capable of joining
them.
This week's non-league videos of the week come from the top of the Blue Square South, the
Southern League Division One South and West and the FA Vase. Our first two matches feature two
clubs that have had an excellent start to the season in the Blue Square South. Dartford sit in the
play-off places in the division, and they are at home against struggling Eastleigh, while leaders
Welling United faced a long trip south-west for a tricky match against another team that has made
an inconsistent start to the season, Dorchester Town.
There is a lot of money flying about in the Blue Square South this season as the teams jostle to
fill the void at the top left by Braintree Town and Ebbsfleet United. The gap between those with a
decent budget and those without seems to be growing a bit more in the southern half of Step 2 than
in the northern half.
This week's non-league videos of the week come from the top and bottom of the Blue Square South,
and from the Combined Counties League. Our first match comes from Princes Park, and is between
Dartford and Lewes. Dartford are comfortable now in mid-table in the Blue Square South. Lewes,
however, are in trouble at the foot of the table, although a surprise win against the league
leaders, Braintree Town, on Wednesday night left them still in touch with their rivals at the foot
of the table.
The pressures of the outside world don't often often intrude into the world of
Twohundredpercent, but they have this evening and our normal service has been slightly interrupted.
Everything will be back to normal with a fresh Mungo tomorrow morning, but for tonight we're going
to leave you with a handful more non-league videos from the last couple of days.
After a couple of weeks off, we're bringing back our weekly round-up of non-league videos.
Yesterday saw the Third Round of the FA Trophy, and our first two matches come from that
competition, kicking off with AFC Wimbledon's match against Woking. Wimbledon dropped two points
against Luton Town during the week and were looking to regain a little momentum.
This evening's Videos Of The Week come again from the non-league game. This weekend saw the
Third Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy. It's the final round of the competition before the clubs
of the Blue Square Premier enter the competition, so there is a potential reward for the competing
teams. With a final at Wembley the ultimate reward, there is all to play for and our first match
comes from it.
Today is a good news day. Lewes Football Club has paid HMRC and dodged the bullet of their
winding up order. It's time, then, to take a look back just over twenty years to the death of
Newport County AFC, and how they rebuilt to a position from which they might just get promotion
back into the league from which they were expelled in the first place.
Non-league football has a tendency to be more transitory than league football. There remains a
culture of boom and bust within the non-league game and this has always existed, but sometimes a
match is thrown up which represents something more solid and more permanent and so it was with this
afternoon's FA Cup Third Qualifying Round match between Dartford and Chelmsford City.
Bath City defeated Thurrock 1-0 at Twerton Park Saturday. Despite the rather tame sounding
scoreline, it was a momentous victory for City. I will get to why it was so important in a moment.
Before then I will pause to take a few digs at Thurrock. It is too tempting to resist.
Thurrock are a relatively recently formed football club, having entered the already crowded
London-area football scene in 1985.
Bath City defeated Thurrock 1-0 at Twerton Park Saturday. Despite the rather tame sounding
scoreline, it was a momentous victory for City. I will get to why it was so important in a moment.
Before then I will pause to take a few digs at Thurrock. It is too tempting to resist.
Thurrock are a relatively recently formed football club, having entered the already crowded
London-area football scene in 1985.
I never thought Manchester United would ever get a mention on these pages. Least of all under this
large black cloud. In a world exclusive which you'll be reading about in the News of the World next
week, I can today expose one of the reasons how the boys from the Theatre of Dreams are so cash
happy - they steal their coats.
Our recent Geographies of Football series piqued interest to such a degree that we received a
message from David Field wondering if we would be interested in an application of the methodology
we applied to Cornwall and Worcestershire to England's southeasternmost shire. Here are the thought
provoking results and we hope to revive the series onĀ an occasional basis.
On a Tuesday evening that rapidly descended from the unseasonably mild to downright chilly, I
ventured to Princess Park, the new and impressive home of Dartford Football Club to watch a much
derided version of our beautiful game, the FA Women's Premier League. The Women's game is seen by
many as far to inferior to warrant [...]