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Tag: Blue Square North

  • How was it for you? Part 7 – Oh to be a Pilgrim

    Boston United fans know something about ups and downs, mostly downs… Cheating our way into the Football League, winding up with the same cheating fraudster taking us down five years later while doing his best to run the club into the ground. Skipping the Conference and being dumped into the Conference North before another demotion…

  • How was it for you? Part 3 – Ewch ar y Cymru

    Favourite bits of the season? The final was unbelievable, even if it took a month of my life. The bad bits (of which there were few) paled in insignificance and really weren’t football’s fault (Northern Rail trains being an hour and a half late following an away Tuesday at Burscough was one of them). And…

  • “If Heskey can play for England so can Jay”

    There are far too few model professionals in the game today. It is hard to see some of the Premier League “stars” of today still being in love with the game at 39 years old as well as preparing to play their game lower down the league ladder. We salute you Jason and hope that…

  • Has anyone seen Grays?

    Secondly, and more newsworthy is the fact that one name is glaringly missing – Grays Athletic. Obviously relegated last season from the Blue Square Premier and homeless after their Recreation Ground was sold from under their feet, they had planned on entering the Ryman’s league with a ground share at East Thurrock United. But that…

  • Wash your Eres out….

    Ilkeston…Derbyshire’s riviera some say and home to a world record holder.  Have a wander around the Market Place on a Saturday and you may bump into William Roache MBE, better known as Ken Barlow, who holds the unique world record of playing the same character in a TV show for the longest period of time…

  • Who is the fairest of them all?

    Twenty years ago automatic promotion from the Conference to the Football League structure was introduced, with Scarborough becoming the first club to “step up to the big time” with Lincoln City falling into the unknown of Non-League football. For years many well run, well supported non-league clubs had been denied their chance in the league…

  • Back beat, the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out

    Have you ever got so far only to fall at the last possible moment?  Well that is what the end of season Playoff’s are all about.  It doesn’t matter what division you look at the end of season playoffs are on a knife edge.  There is real fear in most games.  The rules of fairness…

  • Alfreton Town 4 AFC Telford United 3

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