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MINERS BECOME WORLD BEATERS

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 June 2017

West Auckland lift the Cup!

BOB BEVAN’S Cat Stats

THIS WEEK… 1910 TO THE GREAT WAR Bob “the Cat” Bevan MBE goes into the third decade of the growth of the two greatest amateur leagues including a “World Cup” win
Probably the most bizarre story involving the Northern League took place at the end of the previous decade. A millionaire businessman, Sir Thomas Lipton, who had interests in Britain and Italy, decided to put up a trophy which would become known as the first World Cup and be played for in Italy.
Germany and Switzerland sent their top professio...

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