Southern Leagues

System works across the water

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 June 2017

GRIDIRON SUCCESS: Does the play-off system in the NFL reflect positively on the National League’s new top-seven system?
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ALEX Narey’s editorial in The NLP last week excellently highlights why the change in the play-off system is actually fairer than the system that presently exists in football play-of fs across England.
His reference to the New England Patriots being the first team to reach a Superbowl by winning three games away from home (although they weren’t actually the first Wild Card team to reach the Superbowl, that was the 1980 Oakland Rai...

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