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Essex get a raw deal

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 May 2018

ALTHOUGH I do not represent one of the club’s directly affected by the relegation, I find it appalling that the biggest county in the country, Essex, is going to have a feeder league that has more clubs in it than the senior status league – even though we have plenty of other clubs in our county that could quite easily make up the number to 20.
Also, why has it taken until the completion of the season for clubs to find out their fate.
Yes, the Essex Senior League is not a financially strong league, however the people involved in the running of the league and also the running of ...

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