Non-League Paper

FARCICAL WEEK FOR SOUTHERN PLAY-OFFS

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 May 2019

By Matt Badcock

AT LAST: Alvechurch saw off Stourbridge yesterday in a fixture where the latter gave up their home advantage
PICTURE: Will Kilpatrick

SOUTHERN LEAGUE chairman Terry Barratt admits attempts to keep their Premier Division Central play-offs fair backfired in a week that descended into farce after Stratford Town had been charged with fielding an ineligible player.
Yesterday two games of semifinal football eventually broke out, but only at the end of five days of U-turns and outright confusion.
It began on Monday evening when it emerged the place of Stratford, who were due to ...

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