Non-League Paper

It’s a topsy turvy world in Non-League

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 October 2017

NLP says…
The National League has come in for a fair bit of criticism this season from me, notably for the postponements at Solihull Moors at the start of the season, and last week at Eastleigh. But for excitement and delivering the unexpected, it’s currently, if you will excuse the obvious pun, in a league of its own.
Every week I am left scratching my head as I look at the table; every week I am expecting one of the big guns and pre-season favourites to fire out a marker to the rest and state their intentions to grab the division by the neck. This week, case in point: Tranmer...

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