This is an unofficial guide to the East Midlands League 2017-18. Please let me know of any inaccuracies or missing details. Also, please forward suggestions on improvements or futher information that you would like.
The EML an overview
The East Midlands Counties League has been going since 2008-09.
This is an unofficial guide to the Cymru Alliance. All photos are my own (of which some are a few years old and may not reflect the ground now). Please let me know of any inaccuracies or missing details.
The Cymru Alliance has been going 27 seasons. It is the northern section of second tier football in Wales.
Saturday 17th September 2016 2.30pm Welsh National League Premier Division Overton Recreational 1 Brickfield Rangers 8 ht: 0-5 att: 46 (hc) no entry no prog coffee £1
fromOverton-on-Dee Recreation Ground
Something always tempts me over to Wales on a spare Saturday, even though the only nearby grounds I have left to visit, have little about them, except great views in some cases.
Friday 12th August 2016 6.45pm Welsh National League Premier Division Corwen 1 Cefn Albion 1 ht: 0-0 att: 85 Ent: free Prog: no Coffee £1
fromWar Memorial Park
A warm Friday night in August, what better way to spend it than at an early kick off in Wales? In fact this was the first game of the season (along withgames at Chirk and Llay).
Wednesday 10th August 2016 6.45pm Cheshire League Premier Malpas 3 Congleton Vale Rovers 0 ht: 3-0 att: 45 (hc) Ent: £3 (inc Programme) Coffee: £1 Hailes, Morris, Sadler
from Malpas Sports & Social Club
The nascentseason, the time to get county games in, during the few weeks of late sunsets, before September arrives and it's Saturdays only for the un-floodlit fields of the minor leagues.
Tuesday 24th May 2016 6.45pm Cheshire League Premier Denton Town 4 Rylands 2 ht: 1-1 att: 50hc FREE
Scoring 0-1, 1-1,2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2
fromWhittles Park
My last game of the season, courtesy of the late finishing Cheshire league. It was a case of anywhere would do, but as it happened Denton Town was a great little venue and another cracking Cheshire League tie.
Tuesday 19th May 2016 7.00pm Cheshire League Premier Linotype Cheadle Heath Nomads 4 Rylands 0 ht: 2-0 att: 50 hc FREE No Prog Power 30, Yuille 37, 70, Danaher 90
fromThe Heath
The Cheshire League canalways be relied onfor late, late fixtures,well into May.
Saturday 30th April 2016 3pm Notts Senior League Premier Division Dunkirk AFC 3 Burton Joyce 1 ht: 2-1 att: 25
Hemagou 25, 45 (pen), Moore 65; Player 15
fromRon Steel Ground
I'd seen two games already today on the Notts Senior hop. I was told, after entering Beeston, that the third game of the day on the hop at Nottinghamshire FC was as basic as they come.
Tuesday 1st December 2015 7.45pm Evostik Division One South Loughborough University 2 Heanor Town 2 ht: 1-1 att: 114 Ent: £FREE Prog £FREE Coffee £1 Webb45, 82 : Debrouwer 39, 90
fromLoughborough University Stadium
After three grounds at the higher end of the pyramid it was nice to sink back under the comfort blanket of step fiveand the highest placed university team in the whole of non league.
Saturday 14th November 2015 3.00pm FA Trophy Round Two Marine 2 Kidsgrove Athletic 2 ht: 0-1 att: 274 Ent: £10 Prog: £2, Coffee £1.40 Nicholas 59, Whyte 69 : Malbon 36, 53
fromMarine Travel Arena
I'd wanted to do Marine for a few years and now the opportunity arose to watch my preferred local side for the season, Kidsgrove Athletic, in the second round of the FA Trophy.
Saturday 7th November 2015 3pm Evostik Premier League (step three) Ramsbottom United 2 Rushall Olympic 1ht: 1-0 att: 203 ent: £9, prog £1.50 coffee: £1
Tolley og 27, Payne 84 : Benbow 54
fromHarry Williams Riverside Stadium In German there is an excellent word,Weltschmerz,which describes the belief that physical reality can never satisfythe demands of the mind.
Saturday 3rd October 2015 Welsh Cup 2nd Round Chirk AAA 5 Prestatyn Sports 0 HT: 5-0 att: c50 entrance £3 no prog from Holyhead Road
Chirk Amateur Athletic Association Football Club are one of the oldest clubs in Wales, dating back to 1876. They were one of the founder members of the Welsh FA.
Tuesday 22nd September 2015 East Midlands League Premier Division Ashby Ivanhoe 4 Holwell Sports 1 ht: 2-0 att: 81 drinks: £1 Entrance £4 Programme £1 from NFU Ground
Horn3,Quinn17,Pursloe74,og80 : Chapman 66
This was Ashby's second season at step six in the East Midlands League after winning promotion from the Leicestershire Senior League, and thus establishing a spot in my <50 miles ground list at 46.
Atherstone Town 2 Coventry United 4 ht: 1-2 att: 155
from Sheepy Road
I went to the strikingly named Sheepy Road ground in mid September. Atherstone was a club that had only really emerged on the radar in the last 12 months.
There are many changes in the Staffs County League for next season, but the structure has remained the same with the Premier, Division One and Regional Division Twos North and South.
The Staffordshire County League sits at step seven of the non league pyramid. It is classed in the 7A category, the highest classification of step seven.
Catching a game used to be so easy. You would pick up the paper in the morning, turn to the sports pages and hey presto there was a list of matches to choose from complete with kick off times. I thought the whole world was like that but nope, it ain't so simple. First in Indonesia and then Malaysia I learned printed or announced fixture lists aren't meant as any kind of guide for the casual fan.
