Non-League Paper

Chester suffering an identity crisis

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 August 2018

I ATTENDED the Chester FC v Spennymoor Town opening day fixture last Saturday only to be faced with a crisis of how to identify the names of the 22 players on the pitch.
I bought a programme which listed the squads of both teams by name but no accompanying numbers.The shirts of each player showed their number but not their name. With Chester having a completely new team it was impossible to identify who was who.
Spennymoor had one or two promising players but no-one around me at the match had any idea who they were! From the match report, I believe a Chester player named [Danny] Livesey had...

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