Over recent months, we have called upon regular followers of non-league football in order to guess at which players might stand a chance of forging a career in the Football League, should they wish to take the opportunity. First up was Michael Hudson; the proprietor of The Accidental Groundhopper website running the rule over the Northern League.

After reducing our allocation for this weekend's FA Cup game at The United Stadium, Manchester City still haven't managed to sell out their home section. The tickets are on general sale (the only criteria being you have bought one match day ticket from City already this season) yet just days before kick-off, they still have tickets available.

Former Liverpool and Everton defender Gary Ablett (46) lost his 16 month battle with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma yesterday.

Ablett started his career with Liverpool playing over 100 games, winning two League title's 1987-88 and Liverpool's last title success in 1989-90, he also picked up an FA Cup winning medal in 1988-89 beating Everton 3-2 after extra-time.

Got, Not Got: Fags + coded football fixtures = marketing genius, '60s style...

It's been labelled "football porn" for "nostalgia addicts", and "a major contribution to football history". 'Got, Not Got' is this Xmas's must-have football nostalgia book... Thanks go out to Man City lifer Graham Aldred of Stockport for sending us this incredible chunk of 1960s-style complementary marketing, which flogs industrial-strength ciggies alongside high sporting ideals.

By Alan Duffy

He was once a highly-rated young midfielder enjoying the privileges bestowed on a Manchester United player, but for Ronnie Wallwork, the dream has, over the years, turned sour.

The 35-year-old has been sentenced to 15 monhts in jail for selling on parts of high-perofrmance cars.

Last weekend, SJ Maskell wrote on the matter of questions that she felt should be answered by Supporters Direct. They asked for a right of reply and we were glad to agree to it, so here's their Communications Manager, Kevin Rye, with some responses to the points raised.

Following SJ Maskell's piece Supporters' Trusts: Some Hard Questions, we were prompted to ask if we could write a response to some of the issues raised in the article.

Last weekend, SJ Maskell wrote on the matter of questions that she felt should be answered by Supporters Direct. They asked for a right of reply and we were glad to agree to it, so here's their Communications Manager, Kevin Rye, with some responses to the points raised.

Following SJ Maskell's piece Supporters' Trusts: Some Hard Questions, we were prompted to ask if we could write a response to some of the issues raised in the article.

1. You don't forget days like this in a hurry. United could beat any side 8-2 and I'd be buzzing but to beat Arsenal? Beautiful football playing Arsenal? Wow. I'd love a result like this over Liverpool or City, obviously, but after our proper rivals, getting to absolutely thrash Arsenal is as good as it gets.

Premiership newcomers Swansea City are everyone's favorites to go straight back down to the Championship. Talk to any pundit, any armchair fan, and the chances are that the words "Swansea" and "relegation" will no doubt come up in conversation.

It is clear that it will be a difficult task for Brendan Rogers and his side, but one the team from South Wales is sure to relish.

Either Stockport's new owners have bottomless pockets and Bury's Ryan Lowe is so good that they'd consider shattering the world transfer record in a bid to haul themselves back into the Football League, or the Daily Star need to employ more competent and attentive proofreaders. My money's probably on the latter.

Either Stockport's new owners have bottomless pockets and Bury's Ryan Lowe is so good that they'd consider shattering the world transfer record in a bid to haul themselves back into the Football League, or the Daily Star need to employ more competent and attentive proofreaders. My money's probably on the latter.

Possibly the closest category to call, this split our voters - divided by micro and macro concerns. At the latter level, the usual suspects are there: the primary interviewee on Lord Sugar Tackles Football, some oval ball proponents from the South Manchester borders and all those associated with the downfall of a Green Army from Devonshire.

There's a whole other article that could be be written on the dynamic between Stockport County and Sale Sharks, but for the purposes of this award we'll focus on the pitch at Edgeley Park. Plenty of football clubs share grounds with those amateur gents of the oval ball, Reading and Wycombe to name but two, and at points those playing surfaces may suffer from the sheer amount of game time

Vedran Corluka spent one year at Manchester City before signing for Tottenham Hostpur after claiming he wanted to move to a bigger club. City have since spent hundreds of millions on improving their squad but Corluka has pointed to City's poor attendances to prove his point.

"I still think that," he said.

The term must win is used too much over the course of the season, but tomorrow's game at Sixfields is just that for both ourselves and Northampton. Three points for the Cobblers would probably all but confirm their safety and a place in next season's League 2 with so many other sides nervously looking over their shoulder into the non-league trap door.

City failed to sell out Blackburn away tonight, despite the tickets going on General Sale two weeks ago, just like they failed to sell out Liverpool away a few weeks ago, but the fans that did bother to show up tonight were in full voice.

"Who put the ball in the Munichs' net?

They've come from all four corners of the globe to form Manchester City's all star £200million squad and on Friday they gathered at Stockport train station as they prepared to head to London for...
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Rotherham are the visitors this Tuesday night as Boro look to continue where they left off on Saturday. The games are coming thick and fast now as Boro effectively begin their Christmas period after the original fixtures were postponed due to the poor weather at the back end of 2010. This game was initially pencilled in for the 8th January, but our 3rd round tie against Newcastle meant that the game had to be put back.

(Written with considerable assistance from Scarf.)After my team's brief sojourn in the Championship last season, I'm now back to watching The Football League Show as an interested neutral. There are a few things you can guarantee happening every week: Manish Bhasin will begin speaking to the wrong camera; Mark Clemmit will be seen acting out some forced jollity with a bemused manager; Steve

Sometimes it's not nice to be proved correct, especially when your predictions are of the glass half-empty variety. Back in July, when my club, Stockport County, appointed Paul Simpson, I feared that he would turn out to be nothing more than the 'proverbial sacrificial lamb'. Less than six months on, Simpson has been unceremoniously sacked, despite being on course to achieve his target for the