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.

As a fan of a Non-League side it's very rare that I have anyone to talk to about the team I support. I completely understand why some people will have little or nothing to say about the Non-League but what really gets on my nerves is when I hear people writing it off as being a poor level of football.

Last season, Brighton cantered to the title, with Southampton and Huddersfield fighting neck-and-neck for most of the campaign before the Saints eventually prevailed and were joined in the Championship by play-off winners Peterborough. But who will be up there or thereabouts this year?

Who's Looking Good?

Somebody hasn't been smiling on the football authorities at the end of this season. The one year that the play-offs have to be moved from London to Manchester and this, for the record is not a comment on whether the current volume of matches that are being played at Wembley is anything like a good thing ends up being the year in which the majority of clubs that would have been playing there would likely have preferred to have been playing in London instead.

Below is a guest post I wrote for twofootedtackle.com earlier this week. Two Footed Tackle is a blog devoted to the world of football, covering the Premier League right down to non-league. You can follow them on Twitter via @twofootedtackle.

Stevenage's 3-1 victory over Newcastle United at the weekend may have shocked the nation, but those who have followed the club over the last few years will tell you that they were not surprised to see a Premier League side turned over at fortress Broadhall Way.

Newcastle United will be making an appeal to the F.A over holding midfielder, Cheik Tiote's red card in the club's potentially disastrous F.A. Cup defeat against League Two's Stevenage Borough. The Ivory Coast player was shown a straight red card in the tie, meaning that a player who has made himself practically an essential part [.

Speaking in his post match interview after Newcastle United's Stevenage Borough F.A. Cup fiasco, Newcastle manager, Alan Pardew, bemoaned the lack of energy levels in his team, saying: "The physical side of Stevenage's game was a problem for us all night. "I can only say we are sorry for the result and for the performance [.

It was in 1969, before man had walked upon the moon and before the introduction of colour television on BBC1 or ITV, that Newcastle United last won a major trophy. They beat Újpesti Dózsa of Hungary over two legs in the final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, a tournament that metamorphosised into the UEFA Cup two years later.