Date: Saturday October 24th 2009
Ground: Bill Stokeld Stadium
Match: Carlton Town 5 Leek Town 2 HT: 2-1 ATT: 97
Gent 26, Ball 38 Jenkins 64p, Whitman 73, 76: Johnson 1, Cope 89
Additional: Entrance £7, Programme £1.50, Coffee/Tea £0.80

Bill Stokeld Stadium in pictures

Leek Town were in need of a win here.

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It hadn't been a great week for the Old Firm, starting with results that put their lowly status in Europe into perspective and finishing with a mildly critical piece on the famous 'twohundredpercent' football blog , so I suppose it was inevitable that it was time once again for both clubs to do what they do when times are hard: to talk once again about leaving the backwaters of the Scottish Premier League behind them and finding somewhere more lucrative to play.

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Unibond League South
Sep 5 Leek Town 1 Stamford 0 HT: 0-0 ATT: 272
          Miller 51
Sep 12 Shepshed Dynamo 1 Leek Town 1 HT: 0-1 ATT: 141
             Ramsay 90                 Corden 6
Sep 19 Leek Town 1 Spalding 0 HT: 1-0 ATT: 276
             Cope 39

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Leek stay top of the league after another 1-0 victory today, against Spalding.

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Aug 22nd Leek Town 3 Mickleover Sports 2 HT: 3-2 ATT: 229
Unibond League South

Aug 25th Leek Town 5 Brigg Town 1 HT: 3-0 ATT: 216
Unibond League One South

Mickleover Sports was my first home game as a Leek Town fan. If I wasn't already addicted on the Saturday, then I certainly was on the following Tuesday at home to Brigg.

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It has been a difficult start to the new season for Durham City AFC. Newly promoted into the Unibond League Premier Division - their second successive promotion - they may have been expecting the start of a brave new world and a push for Conference football, but the dream has started to unwind after just a couple of weeks and the club may be heading back to the Northern League, from whence they came.

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Ground: Noose Lane
Date: Tuesday 18th August 2009
Match: Willenhall Town 1 Leek Town 2 HT: 1-1 ATT: 92
Warren 39: Griffiths 27 (og), Hawthorne 52
Comp: Unibond Division One South
Additional: Entrance £6 Programme £1.50 Coffee/Tea 50p Chips 80p

Noose Lane in pictures

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My first game following Leek Town and their first away game of the season, after a 3-3 draw at home to Loughborough on the opening day. Click to continue reading...

As we walk into the bar at Kingsmeadow, something silver and shiny catches my attention in the corner of my eye. "It's the FA Trophy!", I squeal, "The real FA Trophy". It takes a sharp prod to the rib cage to remind me that, sitting next to it, is the squatter but considerably shinier FA Cup. It's carnival day in south-west London, the day of the Co-Operative Supporters Direct Cup match, an annual invitation match for supporters trust owned clubs, and this year - as it was two years ago this weekend - it's Wimbledon and FC United doing the honours.

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Hard economic times can also foster innovation, and it's no surprise that a supporter-owned and run club, FC United of Manchester, this summer became the first club I've heard of to allow supporters to set their own season ticket prices.

In May, the Unibond League club formed in protest at the Glazers' takeover of Manchester United, explained their decision:

The Board is excited to announce a radical new campaign in which you can decide how much you pay for your own season ticket this summer.

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For most Sunderland fans, there is nothing finer than taking a player from Newcastle and making him one of your own. When the Mackems broke the transfer record in 1948 by paying £20,500 to bring Shackleton to Roker Park, they captured one of English football's most mercurial talents. Shackleton was a mould breaker, a player who refused to conform and loved to entertain the public.

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It was as rapid as it was unexpected. Farsley Celtic thought that they had dodged the bullet of a High Court winding up order brought by HMRC. They were forced into administration by the Australian brewing giant Coors - another one of their creditors - earlier this week to prevent the winding up order from going through today, but the Football Conference threw a curve ball at them has thrown them into an - if anything - even more serious crisis than the one that they were already in.

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FC United of Manchester launched in the summer of 2005 by fans of Manchester United who had grown increasingly disenchanted with affairs at the club. The hostile takeover by American Malcolm Glazer was the final straw, although it was not as much Glazer's nationality as his mortgaging the club to high heaven to complete the purchase that was the primary sticking point. Click to continue reading...

In West Yorkshire, a name from the past is stirring, and it isn't doing it in a terribly dignified manner. Bradford Park Avenue, the subjects of a fond article on here before, have starting flexing their financial muscles and have already managed get themselves instated as the favourites for this season's Unibond League Premier Division [. Click to continue reading...

In West Yorkshire, a name from the past is stirring, and it isn't doing it in a terribly dignified manner. Bradford Park Avenue, the subjects of a fond article on here before, have starting flexing their financial muscles and have already managed get themselves instated as the favourites for this season's Unibond League Premier Division [. Click to continue reading...

Another visionary chairman tries to revolutionise English non-League football, setting another dangerous precedent. Click to continue reading...