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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.
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.
Over the last few years it has become one of English footballs most instantly recognisable
totems of the folly of ego, and now it seems as if The Reynolds Arena currently known as The
Northern Echo Arena which has been an albatross around the neck of the club since it moved into it
in 2003, may finally be play a significant role in the end of Darlington Football Club.
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.
The FA Trophy continued this weekend with Durham City entertaining FC United of Manchester
at New Ferens Park, after a brush with serious financial difficulties which threatened the very
future of the club. FC United of Manchester, meanwhile, are still celebrating the planning
permission granted for their new ground.
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.
Steve Claridge, one time Premier League striker and comfortable winner of English football's
'scruffiest looking player'award, has come out of retirement to play for Gosport Borough of the
Southern League Premier. He will go straight into the side for their FA Trophy game this afternoon.
Looking at Claridge's career, it would be fair to say [.
By Chris Wright
"For me, Manish, the guy's too old to be effective at this level"
The Beeb are reporting this afternoon that mumbly pundit and Football League hipster (the
Premier League is soooo mainstream) has come out of retirement at the grand old age of 45 to sign
on as a player and coach for Evo-Stik League Southern Division One South & West side Gosport
Borough his 25th contract in a meandering pro career that both began and ended at Bournemouth
(1984-2006), with a smattering of non-league appearances and managerial posts thereafter.
Well, I've been absent from twohundredpercent for a while due to work commitments, but having
finally got some time off, and with half the family off enjoying themselves in New Zealand, my dad
and I decided to do what any self-respcting twohundredpercenter would we decided to head south and
take in some non-league football.
The football clubs of the Premier League and the Championship had a break for another round of
international matches this weekend, but there were few such luxuries for the butchers, bakers and
candlestick makers of non-league football with a round of fixtures which included the Preliminary
Round of another competition which has suffered a little damage to its reputation in recent years,
the FA Trophy.
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.
With the future of Supporters Direct still under threat, it is worth taking a moment to reflect
upon an anniversary that will most likely go unremarked upon elsewhere, but is still an anniversary
that has changed our perception of how football clubs can be run. Long before Chester FC or FC
United of Manchester, before even AFC Wimbledon were formed, the first club set up in protest at
the ownership of one individual took their first steps.
For men of a certain age, the name of Leatherhead FC makes the eyes mist over and the memories
come flooding back. The Tanners were in Division One of the Isthmian League (which was renamed the
Premier Division in 1977, following reorganisation) when they beat Colchester United and Brighton &
Hove Albion on the way to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup in 1975, where the BBC's Match Of The Day
cameras saw them steal a two goal lead against First Division Leicester City before losing by three
goals to two.
That the English Premier League show arrive at a showdown like this. Today is the final day of
the season in the Welsh Premier League, and the two teams at the top of the table, Bangor City and
The New Saints, are playing each other for the league title. Going into the match, TNS are a point
clear of Bangor, meaning that a draw will lift them the championship, but a home win will take the
Welsh championship to Bangor for the first time in over a decade and a half.
Our non-league videos of the week are twety-four hours later than usual this week but, to make
it up to you, we've brought together the highlights of five matches this week. Our first match is
from the Premier Division of the Ryman League and is between the league leaders, Sutton United and
Hastings United.
Nottingham Forest 2-5 Yeovil Town, May 2007 Your boys took one hell of a beating is a post from:
Just Football
by Ben Barrett
The story you are about to read is not one out of a story book; it was not plucked from a comic
or magazine nor is it a case of a wild imagination.
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.
Like Luis Suarez, but sneakier This incredible incident comes from last weekend's FA Trophy match
between Blyth Spartans and Droylsden. It is a terrific save, diving backwards to tip the ball away.
Unfortunately, it was made by one of Droylsden's outfield players. Somehow the match officials
manage to spot the blatant handball and Blyth Spartans [.
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It's time again for our weekly round-up of non-league videos, which this week focusses on the
last sixteen of this year's FA Trophy. Although some of the gloss from this competition may have
been lost as the Blue Square Premier has come to be the behemoth of the non-league game, there is
still a lot to play for with a place at Wembley at stake these are days out that players,
supporters and staff don't forget in a hurry and the winners of this weekend's matches will find
themselves just three matches from a trip there.
It's time for a bit of a non-league round-up (as is our wont at this time of the week), with
highlights of three matches from the last couple of weekend's worth of matches. First up, we're
taking the opportunity to catch up with one of the matches from the weekend of the 15th of January,
with the FA Trophy Second Round match between Blyth Spartans.
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.