Though the FA Cup does not generally tend to enter wider national consciousness until the big guns
of the Premier League & Championship enter at the 3rd round stage in January, the world's oldest...
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A few days before England coasted to victory against Slovakia in World Cup qualification, Cardiff
City cruised to a 3-0 mid-season friendly against Merthyr Tydfil. But while the result may have
been meaningless, the match itself wasn't as the British Gas Business club needed every last penny
from the game to ensure their survival.
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Sportfreunde Großsachsenheim v TSV Phönix Lomersheim II.Germany, April 2008.Grassroots
Football. Photo courtesy of poity_uk on Flickr, in Just-Football's photo pool.
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We live in an internet age. If previous decades ultimately came to be almost unanimously defined by
the cultural, economic and political standpoints of its people at the time (in a similar way that
the 60s are defined as the age of free love, for example), then for now our generation is most
certainly open to being branded the age of mass multimedia.
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When I saw Lewes FC, a Non-League football team in the south of England, play last December, little
did I know they were on their way to a huge promotion and tumultuous changes that threaten the
heart and soul of the club.
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When Lincoln City and Enfield met in the quarter-finals of the FA Trophy in March 1988, it marked a
transitional point in the history of non-League football which, Ian King says, is surprisingly
healthy today despite the Premier League's hegemony.
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"Let's go for a little walk" is Havant & Waterlooville's terrace victory tune, as your editor
discovered when they played Lewes recently in a Conference South clash. Our resident non-league
expert,
Ian King, thinks they'll be singing that tune either way after they head
to Anfield this weekend, explaining the past and present of the potential giant-killers.
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Our recent series on non-league football attracted considerable attention, as we explored the
strengths and weaknesses of the foundation of the English game below the Premier League and the
Football League.
Ian King will be writing regularly for us on the non-league game
and kicks his column off by telling us what you need to know about non-league.
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Since we've been talking non-league all week, it seems fitting to end it with Chasetown F.C.'s
elimination from the F.A. Cup today. The Southern League team (originally known as Chase Terrace
Old Scholars Youth Club; their ground still reflects this, being called the Scholars Ground) were
the lowest-ranked team ever to make it to the [.
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Continuing our non-league series this week, here's the final photo from Jon Hall at Terrace Images
Weymouth 2, Bury 2. FA Cup 1st Round, 12th November 2006, Wessex Stadium
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We've been looking at English non-league football all week, and in something of a call-to-arms,
Dave Boyle suggests that more supporters of non-league clubs need to take charge of their own
destinies. The last five years as an AFC Wimbledon fan have immersed me in non-League football. Up
to then, I thought of non-League in much [.
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Continuing our non-league series this week, we look at another photo by Jon Hall from Terrace
Images. No jokes, please. Weymouth 2, Bury 2. FA Cup 1st Round, 12th November 2006, Wessex Stadium
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In collaboration with Bill Turianski from billsportsmaps.com website, today we present the second
in our primers on the English football pyramid as we continue the week's non-league theme. Here's a
wonderfully illustrated map of the 32 highest-drawing clubs outside the Premier League and the
Football League.
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Continuing our non-league series this week, we look at another photo by Jon Hall from Terrace
Images. Aldershot Town 2, Chelmsford City 0. FA Cup 1st Round Replay, the Recreation Ground, 21st
November 2006
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In collaboration with Bill Turianski from the brilliant billsportsmaps.com website, today we
present a basic primer on the English football pyramid as we continue the week's non-league theme.
Some of you might be well versed in this already, but it will be useful for those perhaps hazy
about the levels that fall below the Premier League [.
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Photo Daily is back, and this week we're looking at non-league football, courtesy of photos by Jon
Hall from Terrace Images. Poole Town 3, Budleigh Salterton 0. FA Vase 2nd Qualifying Round Replay,
Tatnam Farm, 27th September 2006.
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The Dripping Pan: no-one seems to know quite why, but that's the name of Lewes F.C.'s home ground,
and it sure beats the Emirates for evoking the curious and archaic history of British football. On
Saturday, I watched East Sussex's county town take on Havant & Waterlooville Football Club in the
Conference South (known for [.
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Myfootballclub.co.uk and their thousands of members have agreed a deal to buy Ebbsfleet United, of
the Blue Square Premier (Conference National), one rung below England's Football League. Doubts are
already being voiced by those within the footballing establishment, with Birmingham's co-owner
David Sullivan opining that it "it will be an utter disaster.
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