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Tag: Evostik League

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If you want the rainbow…

23 Aug 2015
With the mighty Rooks making their longest league trip of the season to deepest Suffolk at Leiston, I volunteered to go and retrieve the youngest Fuller's from my in-laws in…
Non league football

A kick in the privates

2 Jan 20152 Jan 2015
Two facts that you may not know about Goole. Firstly, when you type it into any Apple device, it will try to suggest to you that you really meant Google,…
Non league football

Cunning Linguists

23 Feb 20142 Mar 2014
It's taken me the best part of two decades to realise that those in the North of England are a funny bunch.  Twenty years of learning to communicate with my…
Non league football

The real home of football

13 Jan 201317 Jan 2013
Real Madrid and which other football club have been awarded the FIFA Order of Merit? The highest honour that could be bestowed by the Gods of Football. Barcelona? Manchester United?…
Non league football

Romeo has nothing on me

12 Feb 201215 Feb 2012
Like most married men, Valentines Day's arrival every year in a pain in the arse. Surely we do enough to show our love to our wives/girlfriends (and husbands/boyfriends - let's…
Non league football

On the gravy train again – From New Eltham to New Pudsey

22 Jan 201226 Jan 2012
"Northern Steve loves gravy"...He held the T-Shirt aloft that I bought him for his birthday and chuckled a Northern laugh.  My Brother-in-Law is not predictable - he is married after…
Blue Square North…

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

25 May 201125 May 2011
Rhys Wyne from the excellent website Your Supposed To Be At Home brings us his Non League story. Colwyn Bay's pre-season brief was simple - consolidation. Getting promoted with an…
Non league football

How was it for you? Part 1 – Keeping the Real FA Cup stuck together

23 May 201125 May 2011
Tom Snee, Press Officer of the Evostik League gives us his lowdown on his Non League season. For me, the football season began when I heard the Evo-Stik League was…
Non league football

There is only one reason for this treason

27 Apr 20111 May 2011
I am not an Anti-Royalist.  Let's get that right out in the open from the start.  I think they do a good job in some ways for Britain, but I…
Blue Square Premier League…

The curious case of Glapwell FC

24 Apr 201124 Apr 2011
In the top 10 levels of football in England there are currently 1,004 teams, playing in a total of 46 leagues.  Starting at the bottom of this ladder in a…
Non league football

17 Again….

23 Apr 201124 Apr 2011
Twenty four years ago I was in my first ever serious relationship.  A lovely Welsh lass who lived opposite my school who was a year older than me and on…

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