With just £50 and a bit of luck, you could rename Blue Square Premier League side Bath City's
ground anything you want for a whole season. The 2012/13 naming rights to Twerton Park -- built in
1909 and home to non-league Bath City since 1932 -- will be put up for grabs in a drawing open to
pretty much anyone.
Our non-league videos of the week are twenty-four hours late this week, but we have four matches
for you this evening two from the top of the Blue Square Bet Premier, one from the Blue Square Bet
South and one from the FA Vase. First up are two matches from the championship battle at the top of
the Blue Square Bet Premier.
While Darlington have grabbed most of the recent headlines in the race to the financial bottom
that the bottom of the Blue Square Premier seems to consist of this season, Kettering Town
remains in a critical condition itself.
On Saturday, their home match against Forest Green Rovers was called off at lunchtime, which
is unlikely to have done the stricken clubs bank account a great deal of good, and this morning the
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, a local newspaper which has been criticised by some supporters
as being too ready in the past to toe the Ladak party line, also stepped off the fence to deliver
its viewpoint of the recent difficulties that the club has faced.
Normal service is now to resume after the somewhat chaotic Christmas and New Year matches, but
we're going to spend a little time catching up with the last of the festive highlights from over
the course of the last three days or so. We have six matches lined up for you this evening. From
the Blue Square Premier, we have highlights of the matches between Wrexham & AFC Telford United and
Forest Green Rovers.
Normal service is now to resume after the somewhat chaotic Christmas and New Year matches, but
we're going to spend a little time catching up with the last of the festive highlights from over
the course of the last three days or so. We have six matches lined up for you this evening. From
the Blue Square Premier, we have highlights of the matches between Wrexham & AFC Telford United and
Forest Green Rovers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After another close shave with relegation last year Forest Green Rovers have enjoyed a decent
start to the season, they've picked up a few points, turned down an offer from Luton for striker
Reece Styche, who then signed a new deal to keep him at the New Lawn and seen six of their players
named in the England C squad.
After another close shave with relegation last year Forest Green Rovers have enjoyed a decent
start to the season, they've picked up a few points, turned down an offer from Luton for striker
Reece Styche, who then signed a new deal to keep him at the New Lawn and seen six of their players
named in the England C squad.
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.
Putting the green in Forest Green Muck-spreading in football is usually confined to the latest
outbursts from Ryan Giggs' nearest and dearest. But non-league outfit Forest Green Rovers are
changing that by trying to create what they believe will be the first organic pitch. The Blue
Square Premier side has ditched chemical fertilisers in favour [.
As part of 200%'s series about Britain's lost football grounds we look at Gloucester City, a
club without a home ground since 2007.
Unlike many other club's in their league Gloucester City own their own ground, its just they
can't use it at the moment. They haven't been able to play at Meadow Park for almost four
years.
Plans for a new club crest are the latest in a series of changes for Conference survivors
Forest Green Rovers.
Once upon a time there was a little club on a hill which was the luckiest club around, they
stayed in the Conference year after year.
One day a rich eco-Prince took over.
Shortly before 5pm this afternoon a 37-year-old man burnt a pair of football boots in a field in
Gloucestershire and in doing so brought the curtain down on an illustrious career spanning more
than 20 years and almost as many clubs.
Julian Alsop headed home a last-minute equaliser in Bishop Cleeve's Zamaretto South and West
season finale against North Leigh shortly before he took a blowtorch to his boots, ending his last
game in typically flamboyant style.
A £3k policing bill looks set to spoil Gloucester City's weekend but is it
justified?
Football hooligans, they are on the rise in parts of Europe (some of the blogs about Russia are
particularly scary) but in the Blue Square North? Really?
There have been a few well documents ‘issues' this year – Nuneaton v Telford, Stafford v
Telford – but nothing outside the realms of two former giants meeting at a lower level or what is
essentially a local derby.
With the AGM Cup looking set to decide the non-league pyramid's final placings once again,
Jenni Silver looks at some of this year's possible contenders.
It should be the most exciting time of the season, promotions, play-offs and relegation
dog-fights, the glorious month which ends the football season.
With the AGM Cup looking set to decide the non-league pyramid's final placings once again,
Jenni Silver looks at some of this year's possible contenders.
It should be the most exciting time of the season, promotions, play-offs and relegation
dog-fights, the glorious month which ends the football season.
What have Chichester City, Swindon Supermarine, the Brisbane Roar and a rural agricultural
college in the Gloucestershire countryside got in common?
It's a fairly obscure bit of trivia, which helps chart the footballing career of defender Matt
Smith, who went from the County League title with Chichester to winning the A-League Grand Final
with the Brisbane Roar, via a state league title with Palm Beach, a league title with Swindon
Supermarine, a BUSA title with Hartpury College and the 2007 World Uni Championships.
It was recently noted by some wise soul that if the recent tribulations of Wrexham FC were to be
suggested as the plot for a soap opera, they would be rejected as being too far-fetched. Any
lingering doubts that these particular truths are stranger than fiction have been swept from the
mind over the last seven days in a tumultuous week that has seen two of the bids for the club
apparently fall by the wayside, two new ones appear and some of the old faces that we mentioned on
this site just a couple of weeks ago re-enter the fray.
We're quite green around these parts.
Not green as in wet behind the ears.
But green as in environmentally aware.
So it has not come as a complete surprise that the owner of our local team, Forest Green Rovers,
has unilaterally banned red meat from the diets of the players and fans when they are at the
ground.
When Dale Vince took over as owner of the Forest Green Rovers, few knew how far reaching his
dietary preferences would be. It wasn't too long before everyone found out.
The boss, who doesn't partake in meat or dairy products, issued an order to his players forbidding
them to eat red meat.
Super Stuart Fleetwood Fleetwood Town 2-0 Forest Green Rovers (29:01:11) Forest Green Rovers fan
Phil Sheppard enjoys another weekend away marred only by the football: This is dedicated to Danny
Last and Stuart Fuller, two larry let-downs who have used the excuses of the Berlin derby and
working in LA to wriggle out of a weekend up the M6 (I'm only jealous).
