As you are probably already aware, the weather took an axe to this weekend's non-league fixture list and only a handful of matches took place anywhere. The FA Trophy Third Round matches were completely called off and will be played at a later date, so the draw for the quarter-finals, which is to be made tomorrow, will have a somewhat odd look about it.

This year has been a difficult year so far for several of our non-league clubs. Mike Bayly has a round-up of what has been going on at the foot of football's food chain.

By any measure of austerity, it's been a fairly turbulent week in the world of non-league football. On Sunday evening, the main stand at Rossendale United's vacant Dark Lane ground was completely destroyed in what police are treating as a suspected arson attack.

There is, perhaps, no other non-league club that sums up the cycle of perpetual crisis in which so many smaller football clubs find themselves than Northwich Victoria, and there can seldom be a day that goes by during which supporters of the seemingly perpetually beleagured Northern Premier League club don't curse the decision to leave their historic home, The Drill Field, for The Victoria Stadium.

There is, perhaps, no other non-league club that sums up the cycle of perpetual crisis in which so many smaller football clubs find themselves than Northwich Victoria, and there can seldom be a day that goes by during which supporters of the seemingly perpetually beleagured Northern Premier League club don't curse the decision to leave their historic home, The Drill Field, for The Victoria Stadium.

Today the Strikers announced the re-signing of two key defenders, It's a good sign of things to come for Striker Likers!
Here is a little about them:
English defender Martyn Lancaster. Lancaster was born November 10, 1980 in Wigan, England.
He began his career playing for Chester City in the English Football League and Football Conference between 1998 and 2003.