The weather had its say in the non-league programme this weekend, but we are still able this week to bring you six matches from the matches that did manage to go ahead. First up is a match from the last thirty-two FA Vase between Newport (Isle of Wight) FC and Brighouse Town of the Northern Counties East League.
Three of our six matches in this weeks non-league videos of the week feature clubs that are owned by their supporters. Our first match comes from the Blue Square Bet North, and features league leaders Chester FC and their home match against Worcester City. Second up is the Northern Premier League match between Blyth Spartans and FC United of Manchester, and then comes the Southern League Premier Division match between Cambridge City and Stourbridge.
There was always something inherently contradictory about Stan Flashman. He is, perhaps, bestÂ
remembered as the "King Of The Touts" (often with the prefix "Self-Styled" attached to it), but
when he craved respectability he would rebrand himself as a "Ticket Broker." Ultimately, though, he
himself stated that he didn't care what he was called as long as the money was right.
Just read this article from the Thackley website, Looks like they are looking forward to our visit
on Saturday.Expect fireworks (of the legal and enjoyable kind) as the Seadogs hope to rocket
up the league and the Dennyboys look to avoid a damp squib.Whilst there is still the League Cup
to play for, the mantra of "concentrating on the league" is perhaps uppermost in Thackley minds as
they look forward to entertaining Scarborough Athletic on Saturday.
Northern Premier League side Kendal Town FC have signed a frankly ridiculous sponsorship deal
that will see the players having wear fake beards at all times training, travelling and
warming-up.
Kendal have signed a deal with US firm Rosetta Trading, who produce the 'Beard Beanie' a woolly
hat with a knitted beard stitched onto it which are apparently massive sellers in the USA according
to Rosetta themselves.
In November of last year, a non-league football club made its first appearance at its new home
ground. This in itself is nothing truly remarkable. After all, football clubs relocating has been a
common enough sight over the last quarter of a century or so. For this particular club, though, the
move was a special one, bringing, as it did, to an end twelve years of asset-stripping, internecine
arguing and a battle to keep senior football alive in a borough on the periphery of London that had
become synonymous with one of the best known names in non-league football.
It has been a difficult summer for Northwich Victoria Football Club, two months of ongoing
rancour which remains seemingly destined to end in the eventual closure of a club that is two years
shy of celebrating its one hundred and fortieth anniversary but has been kicked from pillar to post
so much over the last ten years or so that it is difficult to imagine any scenario which doesn't
end with the club being put out of its misery as being very remote indeed.
It was, as you will no doubt be aware by now, the twentieth anniversary of the start of the
Premier League next month, but what will likely be forgotten in the slew of retrospectives is the
fact that just three days after the behemoth which has come to eat English football in that
intervening two decades the Football League saw its last to date resignation during the season.
The first round of this years AGM Cup was completed with the FAs initial announcement of which
clubs will be playing in which division next season, then, and the two most significant losers are
two clubs are that have been appearing on the pages of this website more than most over the last
year or so: Darlington and Kettering Town.
As has happened before in the recent history of the club, the battle to save Darlington FC went
to the wire. Another deadline was hanging over the club this week with the a threat of liquidation
waiting on the other side of it, but yesterday afternoon it was confirmed that the Darlington 1883Â
group, which has been battling to keep the club alive in this incarnation since the beginning to
the year.
There is always something faintly pathetic about the list of creditors for a football club's
proposed CVA. It's not so much the big creditors that sink the heart after all, those that pour
money into the black hole of a football club, for example, have paid their money and taken their
choice but the smaller creditors that tug at the heart-strings.
As you probably weren't aware, Witton Albion downed Farsley in the play-off semi-final of the
Evo-Stik NPL Division One North on Tuesday evening winning 3-0 to put themselves within one game
of returning to the Northern Premier League's top tier for the first time in three years.
Under normal circumstances, the last game of the season should be a cause for celebration for
clubs near the top of their respective tables. On Saturday at Gigg Lane, however, FC United of
Manchester's final game of the season against Northwich Victoria was met by protests by supporters
of the visiting club at the end of a season which has seen them lose their ground and face
expulsion from their league.
It's almost the end of the non-league season, so we've got six matches from the tops and bottoms
of varying divisions for you this evening. At the top of the Blue Square Bet South, a win for
Woking at Maidenhead United would be enough to take the title back to Kingfield, while if they
failed Dartford could keep the title race going for another week if they could win at Sutton
United.
That they were playing on a Friday night in the first place told a story of its own. Northwich
Victoria were entertaining Hednesford Town in a Premier Division match of the Northern Premier
League last night when the news came through which rendered any efforts that the team puts in for
the remainder of this season an official announcement from the league in which
they play that they have been found guilty of charges raised against them over non-payment of their
CVA and will be barred from entering the play-offs in the league at the end of season.
End of season title deciders in non-league football have a tendency to bring out vastly inflated
crowds which hint at the potential of a club were it to be playing at a higher level, and this
weekend was no exception with a crowd of 5,009 people turning out at The Exacta Stadium in
Chester to see Chester FC draw 1-1 with Northwich Victoria to lift the Premier Division title in
the Northern Premier League.
The Easter weekend is important across the whole of football, but in the non-league season,
which starts earlier than some professional leagues, it can be make or break time for the whole
season of a club. This weekend, we've got matches from the Blue Square Premier, the Blue Square
South, the Northern Premier League and the Northern League.
Seldom in recent years can there have been a greater contrast between a clubs performance on the
pitch and the condition in which it finds itself away from it. Northwich Victoria, of the Premier
Division of the Northern Premier League find themselves continuing to challenge for a play-off
place for promotion into the Blue Square Bet North for next season, but such considerations have
come to pale in comparison with a state of absolute chaos off of it.
As the 2011/12 season enters its final straight, we have six matches from six different
competition this week to make our Non-League Videos Of The Week. First up is the FA Trophy
Semi-Final First Leg between Newport County of the Blue Square Premier and Wealdstone of the Ryman
League Premier Division.
After a couple of weeks off, we can finally get back to some matches from this weekend's
football and we have a variety of competitions for you today. First up, we have a match from this
weekend's FA Vase between Whitley Bay, who have won the tournament for the last three years in a
row, and West Auckland.
In 2005, FC United of Manchester was founded by disaffected fans of Manchester United. They
created their own club, one that will forever be fan-owned, and began playing at the bottom of the
English football pyramid, about as far from the bright lights of Old Trafford as one can go. From
the beginning, FCUM fan Matthew Wilkinson has been traveling far and wide in support of the club
and photographing much of their adventure as it has gone on.
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.
Although a lucky handful of clubs were still involved in the FA Cup this weekend, most
non-league clubs were back to the league this weekend, and we have the highlights from four matches
from yesterday for you tonight. First up are the Blue Square Premier matches between AFC Telford
United and Kettering Town, and Mansfield Town and Forest Green Rovers.
The bulldozers moved in at College Grove in Wakefield last week. This, of
itself, should probably not have come as too much of a surprise to those that have been watching
the recent difficulties of Wakefield Football Club of the Northern Premier League for most of this
year, but as a visual analogy it was depressingly appropriate that a club which has had a
disastrous year should have seen its home almost completely razed to the ground in favour of a
multi-sport complex by its owners at the same time that those running the club confirmed that it
was on the brink of closure.
The question is: how far would you support your club in return for trophies.
Some supporters have in the past drawn the line and said, this far and no further. The group
that set up FC United of Manchester, now in the Northern Premier League, were one example of a
group so [.
Three League Cup victories sorted in our stroll down historical avenue, four to go, and for the
love of Fowler why isn't it Sunday yet I can't stand the wait and I'm nervous and I think I cut
myself underneath the fingernail chewing on the fingernail because I'm so nervous I'm chewing on my
fingernails or at least I cut myself underneath the fingernail somehow and why isn't it Sunday
yet?
As I have done ever since I started All Roads Lead Somewhere a brief review of my football watching
season will end the proceedings, though this time it will not be a case of "back in July" but thank
you and goodnight.
Number of games seen: 59 Number of goals seen: 234 Average number of goals per game: 3.
OSSETT TOWN 0-1 WITTON ALBIONSaturday 17th March 2012Northern Premier League
Division 1 NorthIngfield, Prospect Road, WF5 9HA
Today sees a rare trip up to the Peoples Republic of Yorkshire for a visit to Ossett Town Football
Club. This was not my original plan as I had penciled a game in the more local Northants
Combination, but this suggestion from good friend Kevin Zupp who wanted to visit the ground before
the bulldozers cometh.
BORO', OFFICIALLY CHAMPIONS Here is the local paper match report from our final home game of the season, and we are now mathematically champions, our final league game of the NCEL season is away to West Yorkshire side Glasshoughton. Next season we will be taking part in the Evo stick league North (Northern Premier league) NCEL Premier Division Champions 2012-13 Boro clinched the Northern Counties East League Premier Division title this afternoon with a workmanlike victory over Retford United at a sunny but cool Queensgate.
Ramsbottom United 3 Clitheroe 0 - Northern Premier League, Division One North
Ramsbottom is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester. It is situated on the course of the River Irwell, in the West Pennine Moors. Historically in Lancashire, it is located 3.
NEWCASTLE TOWN 3-1 GRESLEY Saturday 20th October 2012 Northern Premier League Division 1 South The Aspire Stadium, Buckmaster Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme
With Oadby Town not having a game today I am joined today by good friend and also their secretary Kevin Zupp, and we are heading west into Staffordshire, which for myself is the first time in two years for a game of football.
We have, in recent years, become rather too accustomed to a boom and bust culture in football,
particularly at clubs in the lower divisions. Few clubs, however, have ever boomed and busted with
the speed of Colne Dynamoes, and it is the man that was responsible for this, Graham White, who
takes the number ninety-seven position on our list.
On the back of three previous entries identifying some of the most promising individuals plying in
the Conference, Isthmian and Northern leagues, we turn our attention here to the Conference's two
regional divisions. In the first of two posts focusing on this tier of the pyramid, Wesley Durbin
takes a look at the northern section which has, albeit under the guise of the Northern Premier
League which it superseded in 2004, been a staging post for the likes of Burton and Accrington in
recent years.
On Monday I knew that I could wake up and forget about work for at least another 24 hours as it
was a public holiday. Therefore I decided that I would go to a football ground in my home city that
I'd been meaning to go to for quite some time.
The Arriva Stadium, at one time known as Rossett Park before the ground was sponsored by the
Arriva bus company, is the home of Marine AFC and lies in the outer Liverpool suburb of Crosby.
Brazilian football legend Socrates has died at the age of 57 it has been reported today.
The former Botafogo, São Paulo, Corinthians, Flamengo and Fiorentina player was taken to
hospital on Friday with food poisoning and later died through an intestinal infection.
Socrates was perhaps best known amongst football followers for his performances with the
Brazilian national team in the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cups and it is sad that he is one of few
Brazilians superstar players never to win a major tournament with the Seleção.
