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Relegation to the Conference really is frightening. Though coverage is limited in the Football League's nethers and supporters of the PL rarely look below 20th place in the pyramid, it just doesn't compare to the vacuum of non-league.Take, for instance, Luton Town. Three seasons ago, they were on my radar.

One of the saddest parts of modern football is the way in which the non-Premier League divisions have been neglected and forgotten by the mainstream media. Take a look through some old cigarette card collections or the wonderful Football League Review magazine and you'll find that although not necessarily billed as equals with First Division clubs, many of the smaller lower league sides were included and covered alongside many of the giants of English football.

Aldershot v Man United, Luton v Arsenal, Liverpool v Northampton and the top 10 League Cup upsets!

Who could have seen these coming?

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Yesterday in Plymouth, Argyle's lead administrator Brendan Guilfoyle said an incredible thing... no, wait, I know he's been saying incredible things since the start of Argyle's spell in administration in March (and some Luton and Crystal Palace fans might be prepared to go further back in history than that).

This is, believe it or not, a plastic match ticket, found by Dad recently while tidying up. Dad used to take me to Kenilworth Road, Luton for a few seasons, the Sealy-Foster-Hill- Harford-Stein side. We saw some great games on Luton's infamous plastic pitch, always from the very front of the terrace, right behind the goal.

LONDON, England AFC Wimbledon won promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history with a dramatic penalty shoot-out win over Luton at Eastlands. After a goalless 120 minutes, top scorer Danny Kedwell netted the winning kick after Dons keeper Seb Brown saved from Alex Lawless and Jason Walker.

LONDON, England AFC Wimbledon won promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history with a dramatic penalty shoot-out win over Luton at Eastlands. After a goalless 120 minutes, top scorer Danny Kedwell netted the winning kick after Dons keeper Seb Brown saved from Alex Lawless and Jason Walker.

Being dubbed a young player with promise is sometimes the cruellest thing that can happen to a footballer. As contemporaries in the Norwich City youth set-up a decade ago, Ian Henderson and Ryan Jarvis made their first team debuts within six months of each other. In November 2002, Henderson scored as a substitute in his second Canaries appearance.

First posted here on the 15th April 2009.

Where were you on April 15th 1989? I was at Clarence Park in St Albans, for a Vauxhall-Opel League Premier Division match between St Albans City and Barking. It was a beautiful spring day, but there was little excitement in the air. City were just safe from relegation, whilst Barking were mid-table.

One of English football's most desperate races at present is that to avoid the drop from the Blue Square Premier at the end of this season. There are just four points separating Cambridge United in sixteenth place and Altrincham in twenty-second position and, with Eastbourne Borough and Histon already all but condemned, this means that any two from seven could join them, with just five or six matches depending on which club we are talking about left to play.

Financial instability continues to see David beat Goliath in Lower leagues is a post from: Just Football

As has been well documented in recent years there are a whole host of league clubs who are seemingly operating on borrowed time due to season upon season of poor financial management.

Gresty Road: The home of Crewe Alexandra

It's another away day for Boro tomorrow afternoon as they travel up the M6 to face Dario Gradi's Crewe Alexandra. On paper, it looks like it could be another tough game for Graham Westley's side. Boro have not won a game in their last 6 and on top of that, they have failed to score in the last 3.

In one of the least surprising news stories of the day, Gennaro Gattuso has been charged by UEFA with ‘Gross Unsporting Behaviour' after his clash with Joe Jordan on Tuesday.

After the game, a rash of Joe Jordan stories have cropped up, telling us why Gattuso had picked on the wrong man.

So we're off to Wemberlee and the desperate struggle for tickets can now begin. Remarkably, it will be our first Wembley final since winning the FA Cup in 1998 against Newcastle. Of course, between then and now we have enjoyed something of a cup final spree (record in Wales: five finals, 60% success rate).