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SHIELDS’ STEELY RESOLVE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
30 July 2017

BOB BEVAN’S Cat Stats
THIS WEEK… THE SAD 1970s
Bob “the Cat” Bevan MBE reviews the last decade of the two top amateur leagues as the FA declares everyone a player in 1974.
IT was truly the end of an era in 1974 when the Football Association finally gave up trying to police the payment of players at the top end of the amateur game.
North Shields had ended the previous decade in strength winning the Northern League and the Amateur Cup. At the start of the 1970s, Evenwood won the league for the first two seasons in the second of which Ashington and Consett reverted ...

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